380 ■ LASIOPYGA 



from the red frontal band colored like the back. This is, however, only 

 a surmise, and it is more probable that it will prove to be the young of 

 L. BRAzz^, as I have supposed is really the fact. 



Measurements. Total length, 697; tail, 367; foot, 90, (skin). 

 Ex type Garden Zool. Soc. Lond. 



' Lasiopyga DIANA (Linnseus). 



Simla diana Linn., Syst. Nat., I, 1758, p. 26; I, 1766, p. 38; Schreb., 

 Siugth., I, 1775, p. 94, pi. XIV; Gmel., Syst. Nat, I, 1788, 

 p. 32. 

 Cercopithecus diana Erxl., Syst. Reg. Anim., 1777, p. 30; Wagn., 

 Schreb., Saugth. Suppl., V, 1855, p. 48 ; Reichenb., Vollstand. 

 Naturg. Affen, 1862, p. 107, figs. 263, 267 ; Forbes, Handb. 

 Primates, II, 1894, p. 79; Jentink, Notes Leyd. Mus., 1898, 

 p. 22>7 ; Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1907, pp. 682, 683, pi. 

 XLI, fig. 1 ; Thos., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1911, p. 127. 

 Cercopithecus diana var. ignita Gray, Cat. Monkeys, Lemurs and 



Fruit-eating Bats, Brit. Mus., 1870, p. 22. 

 Cercopithecus diana ignitus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1893, 



p. 255 ; Johnst, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1905, p. 191. 

 Type locality. Unknown. 



Geogr. Distr. Liberia, very common, (Johnstone) ; West Africa. 

 Genl. Char. Beard short, front hairs black; ears tufted; inner 

 side of thighs bright bay. 



Color. Top of head, nape, neck, upper part of back and sides 

 of body iron gray ; a broad chestnut red band from middle of back to 

 root of tail ; a white or whitish crescentic band on forehead above eyes, 

 edged in front with a line of stiff black hairs ; face covered with black 

 hairs; sides of head, reaching to angle of the mouth, and on sides of 

 neck to shoulders, and extending to elbows on inner side of arms, 

 beard, (except front hairs at base which are black), throat and upper 

 part of chest, pure white ; outer sides of arms to elbow, black, with very 

 few white specks, forearm black, thickly speckled on outer side with 

 white; rather broad white, or yellowish white band from knee across 

 thigh to base of tail ; outer side of legs black ; upper edge of thigh from 

 knee black, minutely speckled with white ; inner side of thigh, and leg 

 half way below knee, and anal region bright bay ; hands and feet black ; 

 tail chestnut and black mixed at root, rest black to tip. 



Measurements. Total length, 1,275; tail, 820; foot, 130. Skull 

 total length, 97.6 ; occipito-nasal length, 83 ; intertemporal width, 42.8 

 Hensel, 67.6; zygomatic width, 62.4; median length of nasals, 13.6 



