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PRIM A TES 



produced into a large proboscis. Other characters as in Semiw- 

 pithecus. 



This genus includes only the Proboscis Monkey (X. lurrtifus) of 

 Borneo, remarkable for the great prolongation of the nose in the 

 adult. In young animals the nose is relatively much shortei*, and 



FIG. 340. Scmnopithccus rojcellance. (From Milne-Edwards, KechercTies des 

 Mammifkres, pi. 36.) 



bent upwards after the manner of that of Semnopithecus roxettance 

 (Fig. 349). 



Semnopitliecus. 1 Pollex small ; narial aperture extending up- 

 wards between the orbits. Now confined to Asia. 



This genus is characteristic of South-Eastern Asia from the 

 Himalaya southwards, the Oriental region being its head-quarters. 

 The development of the muzzle is less than in the Macaques, and 

 the facial angle is higher, but it does not appear that this indicates 

 greater intellectual capacity. The outlying S. roxellance 2 (Fig. 349), 



1 F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. des Mammiferes (1821), "Semno-pitheque." 

 2 Separated generically by some writers as Rhinopitliccus. 



