54 Zoological Society. 
January 23.—William Yarrell, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. ON SOME NEW OR LITTLE-KNOWN SPECIES OF MONKEYS. 
By Joun Epwarp Gray, Esa., F.R.S. Etc. 
The older authors have described two species of White-nosed Mon- 
keys which have been called Hocheurs by the French. 
In the British Museum we have specimens of each of these species, 
and also of two very distinct kinds, which appear either not to have 
oceurred to preceding authors, or to have been confounded by them 
with the species described by Erxleben. 
CERCOPITHECUS MELANOGENYS. The Black-cheeked Monkey. 
Dark olive, minutely yellow grisled; face, cheek, forehead, chest 
and hands black ; a large cordate spot on the ncse and a small spot 
on each temple white. Throat, under-part of the body and inside of 
the legs whitish ; the front of the shoulders, outside of the limbs, end 
of the tail blackish. Ears, the middle of the back, and upper part of 
the tail, rufous. 
In the British Museum collection there is a half-grown specimen 
of this species which died in a menagerie near London, and was said 
to have come from Western Africa. 
The Black-cheeked Monkey is easily known from Cercopithecus 
nictitans by its yellow punctulated fur and cordate form of the spot 
on the nose; the latter character equally distinguishes it from Cerco- 
pithecus petaurista, from which it is also separated by the black- 
ness of its cheeks and the greyness of the outside of the limbs, and the 
redness of the middle of the back and the tail. 
This species was indicated in the ‘Annals of Natural History’ for 
1845, but is redeseribed here for the purpose of comparison with 
the next. 
CercoprrHecus Lupio. The Ludio. 
Blackish, minutely yellow grisled ; face, temple, crown of the head, 
shoulders and fore-legs, black ; outer side of the hinder legs and end 
of tail blackish ; large oblong spot on the nose white; throat, upper 
part of the inside of arms, and lower side of the body, whitish ; ramp 
and under side of base of tail dark reddish brown. 
Hab. West Africa. 
In the British Museum there is a nearly full-grown specimen of this 
species, which was procured from a menagerie in Liverpool, and was 
said to have been brought from the west coast of Africa. 
This is at once known from two other species which have the fur 
punctated with yellow, viz. C. petaurista and C. melanogenys, by the 
large size and erect oblong form of the white spot on the nose, and 
especially by the absence of any white on the cheek or temples ; it is 
easily distinguished also by the general black tint of the fur, and 
especially by the red hairs of the rump. 
In the course of last year there was exhibited in the Gardens of the 
Society a short-tailed American monkey, which was regarded by several 
