752 CLASS xvn. 



2 2 



ft Spurious molars . 



Phalanx III. Heopitheci. Nails flat or subrotund, obtuse at the 

 apex. Fore feet pentadactylous, with thumb remote, very rarely 



5 5 



tetradactylous without thumb. Molar teeth = p , false molars 



tuberculate. Nostrils severed by a small, narrow septum, opening 

 obliquely under the nose. (Tail never prehensile, sometimes 

 none. Eegion at the tubers of ischium almost always destitute of 

 hair, callous.) 



A. Buccal pouches. Nates callous. 



Cynocephalus Guv. Last molar tooth of lower jaw with one or 

 two accessory tubercles; the two other true molars quadritubercu- 

 late. Face produced into a truncate snout. Eyes small, approxi- 

 mate, placed beneath the transverse ridge of the exsert margin of 

 frontal bone. Trunk declining backwards. Tail very short or 

 moderate, inserted high, with tip often tufted. 



a) With tail very short (Papio BRISS., ERXL., Mormon). 



Sp. Cynocephalus maimon, Simla Maimon L. (and Simla mormon ALLSTRO- 

 MER, GM.) BUFF. Suppl. vn. PI. 9, AUDEB. Singes, n. 2, PI. i, Cuv. 

 Mtnag. du Mus. i. pp. 334 345> ODER. Iconogr., Mammif. PL 3, fig. 2; 

 the mandril; a large, brownish-black monkey, the belly dirty-white, a 

 yellow beard, the nose in the adult red and the face on each side purple- 

 blue, with deep, longitudinal folds; in Africa at the Gold Coast. Cynoce- 

 phalus leucophceus DESM., Simla leucophcea Cuv., Ann. du Mus. ix. p. 477, 

 PI. 37, Mammif. (ed. 4 to), PL 4852. 



6) With tail moderate, tufted at the tip (Cynocephalus in stricter sense). 



Sp. Cynocephalus sphinx, Simla Sphinx L., BUFF. xiv. PI. 13, 14 (with tail 

 truncated), AUDEB. Singes, in. PI. i, 2, Cynocephalus papio Cuv. Mammif. 

 (ed. 4to), PL 44, 45 ; coast of Guinea, Senegal. A similarly formed, but 

 more darkly coloured monkey represents this species in South Africa: 

 Cynocephalus porcarius, Simla porcarla BODDAERT, Naturforscher xxu. 

 Tab. i, GUER. Iconogr., Mammif. PL 3, fig. i ; it is the black ape of the 

 colonists. Cynocephalus papio (Cynocephalus babuln DESM.) Cuv. Mem. du 

 Mus. IV. PL 19; Cynocephalus hamadryas, Simla hamadryas L., BUFF. 

 Suppl. vii. PL 10, SCHREB. Sdugth. Tab. 10, 10*, Cuv. Mammif. (ed. 4to), 

 PL 46; these two last-named species live in Abyssinia; the last is the 

 monkey, sacred to the god Thoth, of the Egyptians, so often represented 

 on their monuments ; see EHRENBERG Ueber den Cynocephalus, c. Berlin, 

 1834, 4 to. 



In Asia also some species of this genus occur, Cynocephalus nlger DESM. 

 and Papio nlgrescens TEMM., both from Celebes, and the (formerly referred 

 to Macacus) Cynocephalus silenus, Simla Sllenus L., BUFF. xiv. PL 18, 

 Zool. Gardens, I. p. 21, Cuv. Mammif. ed. 4to, PL 38 ; this monkey has been 



