372 LASIOPVGA 



Measurements. Body and head about 680; tail to end of hairs, 

 845. No skull. Ex type Berlin Museum. 



The type is a mutilated skin with the fore part of head and lower 

 part of arms and legs absent. It is an exceedingly handsome animal ; 

 distinct from all others of the genus. 



Lasiopyga iNsiGNis (Elliot). 



Cercopithecus insignis Elliot, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., IV, 1909, 8th 

 Ser., p. 274. 



ORANGE-COLORED GUENON. 



Type locality. Congo forest. Central Africa. Type in Garden 

 Royal Zool. Society, Antwerp, Belgium. 



Genl. Char. Fur long, loose, rather fluffy : tail long ; colors bright. 



Color. Broad brow band, cheeks and whiskers, the latter bushy 

 and reaching behind ears, yellow ; face blackish ; nose bluish white ; lips 

 covered with white hairs ; chin and upper part of throat white ; top of 

 head to nape, band across back to base of neck, shoulders, arms, hands, 

 front of thighs from hips over knees and feet black ; entire upper parts 

 from black back band to tail, flanks and under parts from throat to 

 vent, and inner side of thighs dark orange ; tail at base reddish brown 

 grading into black on apical half. 



Unique type living in the Royal Zoological Gardens at Antwerp, 

 Belgium, 1909. 



Lasiopyga sTAiEsi (Sclater). 



Cercopithecus stairsi Sclat., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1892, p. 580, 

 pi. XL; 1893, pp. 252, 443, 612; Forbes, Handb. Primates, II, 

 1894, p. 73 ; Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., II, 1907, p. 706. 



STAIRS' GUENON. 



Type locality. Delta of the Zambesi. 



Gcogr. Distr. Zambesi Delta, Mozambique, East Africa. 



Genl. Char. Auricular region chestnut. 



Color. Eyelids white, face black about eyes where it is bare, lips 

 covered with short white hairs ; cheeks and side of head, hairs long, 

 inclined backwards, speckled yellowish green ; top of head speckled 

 bufif yellow and black ; hairs on forehead long, upright, speckled Naples 

 yellow and black, some stiff black hairs mixed with the rest and usually 

 much the longest ; sides of head in front of and over ears chestnut, 

 unicolor ; occipital region, hairs chestnut banded with ochraceous buff ; 

 lower hind neck, and upper back and shoulders speckled yellow and 

 black, the entire surface with a greenish tinge ; dorsal line ochraceous 



