52 MAMMALIA. 



S. melalophos, RafF. ; F. C. pi. 7. ( Tlie Simpai). Fur of a very 

 lively red ; beneath white ; face blue ; a crest of black hairs reaching 

 from one ear to the other. 



.S*. comata, Desm. ; S. eristata, Raff. ; Fr. Cuv. pi. 2. Presbitis 

 mitrata, Kotzeb. (The Croo). Fine ash colour below, and the tuft 

 of the tail white; black crest on the eye-brows, and the hairs of the 

 top of the head long and turned up, forming a tuft. 



S. maura, L. ; F. Cuv. pi. 10. (The Negro Monkey). All black, 

 the young of a brownish yellow. The three latter species are from 

 the straits of Sunda*. 



Macacus-|-. 



All the animals of this denomination have a fifth tubercle on their last 

 molares, and callosities and cheek-pouches like a Guenon. The limbs 

 are shorter and thicker than in a Semnopithecus ; the muzzle more pro- 

 jecting, and the superciliary ridge more inflated than in either the one or 

 the other. Though docile when young, they become unmanageable when 

 old. They all have a sac which communicates with the larynx under the 

 thyroid cartilage, and which, when they cry out, becomes filled with air. 

 Their tail is pendent, and takes no part in their motions : they produce 

 early, but are not completely adult for four or five years. The period of 

 gestation is seven months — during the rutting season the labia pudendi, &c. 

 of the females are excessively distended;];. They are generally brought 

 from India. 



Sim. silenus and leonina, L. and Gin. ; Ouanderou, Buff. ; Audeb. 

 2dfam. sect. 1, pi. 3. (The Maned Macaque). Black; ash coloured 

 mane and whitish beard which surround the head. From Ceylon. 



Sim. sinica, Gm. ; Buff. XIY. 30 ; Fr. Cuv. 30. (The Chinese 

 Monkey). A lively fawn-coloured brovra above, white beneath; 

 flesh-coloured face ; the hairs on the top of the head arranged in 

 radii forming a sort of hat. From Bengal, Ceylon. 



S. radiata, Geoff". ; Fr. Cuv. 29. (The Cape Monkey). Differ- 

 ing from the preceding in a greenish tint. 



Sim. cynomolgus and cynocephalus, Lin. ; Macaque, BufF. XIV. 

 20; Fr. Cuv. 26 and 27. (The Hare-lipped Monkey). Greenish 

 above, yellowish or whitish below ; ears and hands black ; face and 

 scrotum tawny §. The Aigrette, Sim. aygida, Lin., BufF. XIV. 21, 

 appears to be a mere variety of this one, differing by a longer tuft of 

 hair on the top of the head. 



* There is some variation in their Malay names. RafHes, (Linn. Trans. XIII) 

 palls the S. cotiata, Chinkau; the S. maura, Lotong. Raffles calls the S. fascicularis, 

 the lira. 



\ Macaco is the generic appellation of monkeys on the coast of Guinea, and among 

 the negroes transported to the colonies. Marcgrave mentions a species, which he 

 says has " nares elatas bifidas"- — and these vague words, copied from him only, have 

 remained in the character applied to the Macaque of Buff., although it has nothing 

 like it. 



X Hence the observation of jElian, that monkeys are to be seen in India which 

 have a prolapsus uteri. 



§ Add the Blark-faced Muratjuc, Fr. Cuv. Mammif. 2S, and the other species de- 

 scribed in the same work. 



