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THE DOUG OR COCHIN.CHINA MONKEY. 

 Lasiopyga* nemea, -!LLIGEB. 

 PLATE VII. 



Simia ncmseus, Linnaus. Pygathrix nemaeus, Geoffroy Saint 

 Hilaire, Annales du Museum, vol. xix. p. 90. Le x Douc, 

 Audibert, Histoire Naturelle des Singes. Guenon Douo, 

 Desmarets 1 Mammalogie, p. 54. 



THIS singularly but beautifully marked species has 

 been the subject of discussion among many naturalists, 

 and its great rarity prevents, even to the present 

 period, a satisfactory examination of its form and 

 structure ; by some it is placed at the commencement 

 of this division, while by others it is stationed at the 

 conclusion, to be followed by the lesser baboons. Illiger 

 gives the characters of his genus, so as, in fact, to include 

 some of the latter, but by GeofFroy it is placed as the 

 solitary representative of his genus above mentioned. 

 It is a native of Cochin-China, and as very few spe- 

 cimens have yet reached Europe, little or nothing 

 i* Known regarding it. The height is about two feet, 



* Lasiopyga x<r o$, hairy ; *vy, buttocks, posteriors. 



