Inuus vez Macacuvs. 25 
as introduced by Arab horse-dealers occasionally, and that it certainly 
is not indigenous. Blyth was also assured by Dr. Templeton of 
Colombo that the only specimens there were imported. 
DESCRIPTION.—Black, with a reddish-white hood or beard surround- 
ing the face and neck ; tail with a tuft of whitish hair at the tip ; a little 
greyish on the chest. 
S1zE.—About 24 inches ; tail, 10 inches. 
There is a plate of this monkey in Carpenter and Westwood’s edition 
of Cuvier, under the mistaken name of Wanderoo. 
It is somewhat sulky and savage, and is difficult to get near in a wild 
state. Jerdon states that he met with it only in dense unfrequented 
forest, and sometimes at a considerable elevation. It occurs in troops 
of from twelve to twenty. 
No. 18. INUUS ve? MACACUS RHESUS. 
The Bengal Monkey (Jerdon’s No. 7). 
NaTivE Names, — Bandar, 
Hindi; AZarkot, Bengali; Swhu, 
Lepcha, Py, Bhotia. 
Hapirat. — India generally 
from the North to about Lat. 
18° or 19°; but not in the South, 
where it is replaced by JMacacus 
radiatus. 
DEscRIPTION.—Above_ brown- 
ish ochrey or rufous ; limbs and 
beneath ashy-brown; callosities 
and adjacent parts red; face of 
adult males red. 
S1zE. — Twenty-two inches ; 
tail 11 inches. 
This monkey is too well-known 
to need description. It is the 
common acting monkey of the 
bandar-wallas, the delight of all 
Anglo-Indian children, who go = 
into raptures over the romance of Macacus rhesus. 
Munsur-ram and Chameli, their 
quarrels, parting, and reconciliation, so admirably acted by these 
miniature comedians. 
Note.—For Macacus rheso-similis, Sclater, see P.Z.S. 1872, p. 495, pl. xxv., also 
P.Z.S. 1875, p. 418. 
Se 
