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Colour. Back, outside of limbs, and tail greyish or earthy brown, 

 sometimes with a slight pinkish tinge ; head paler brown above ; 

 feet the same colour as the limbs, or a little darker, not black. 



Fig. 8. Head of Semnopithecus priamus. 



Lower parts pale brown. Face, palms of hands, and soles of feet 

 black. 



Dimensions. Head and body 21 inches, tail 28 (a Ceylon speci- 

 men) ; a large "Wynaad example, however, measured 23 and 37 

 inches. Madras specimens are probably larger than Ceylonese. 

 An adult male Ceylon skull is 4-23 inches in extreme, 3 in basal 

 length, and 3'35 in zygomatic breadth. Another has for corre- 

 sponding dimensions 46, 3*28, and 3'63 inches. 



Distribution. Coromandel coast and the Carnatic as far north as 

 Nellore, also Mysore, the "Wynaad, and Northern Ceylon, extend- 

 ing south as far as Trincomali and the skirts of the Kandyan hills. 

 The limits of range of this species and of S. entellus are not exactly 

 known. S. priamus, I learn from Mr. W. Davison, ascends the 

 eastern slopes of the Nilgiri hills to an elevation of 6000 feet. 



Habits. Precisely similar to those of its near ally 8. entellus. 



This species may be distinguished from S. entellus by having a 

 crest, and by the feet and hands not being black above. The form 

 of the skull is quite different, as Anderson has shown ; the facial 

 portion being much shorter and more concave. The distance from 

 the alveolar border of the premaxillaries to the supraorbital ridge 

 in an adult skull of S. priamus is 1'7, in S. entellus 2-25, and in 

 S. schistaceus 2*7 inches. Several other differences in the cranium 

 and mandible are noticed by Anderson. 



