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few long hairs running out into a kind of point, but not 

 forming a tuft. The under surface of the body is of a 

 dingy yellowish- white ; and the fore-arms, hands, and 

 feet, are of a dusky black. The fingers of both extre- 

 mities are very long, and the thumbs comparatively 

 short. The face, which is black, with somewhat of a 

 violet tinge, is surmounted, above the eyebrows, by a 

 line of long stiff black hairs, which project forwds, 

 and slightly upwards. On the sides of the cheeks 

 and beneath the chin, it is margined by a beard of 

 grayish-white passing along the line of the jaws, and 

 extending upwards in front of the ears, which are large 

 and prominent, and of the same colour as the face. The 

 hairs of the fore part of the breast appear to diverge 

 from a f ommon centre. The height of our specimen. 

 v*s:cn was not yet adult, when in a sitting posture 

 exceeded two feet ; and his tail, which he rarely dis- 

 played at its full length, but more usually kept curled 

 up in a single coil, measured nearly three." 



The foregoing details will point out the characters 

 oi this group. Three other species are introduced into 

 Desmarets' work, and in Griffith's Synopsis, under 

 the names of S. comatus, somewhat allied to that now 

 described, S. pruinores, approaching to the Semno- 

 pithecus maurus of Dr Horsfield, which we shall now 

 notice. 



The Negro monkey, like its congeners, is a native 

 of Java and Sumatra. The length of the body is 

 about two feet three inches, that of the tail nearly 



