250 SYNOPSIS OP THE SIMIAD^). 



anterior extremities short and slender ; cheek-pouches ; tali long ; 



no callosities ; the buttocks fringed with hair. 



PLATE VII 1. L. NEMEA, Cochin-China Monkey Pygathrix, 



Geoff. Ann. du Mus. xix. p. 90. Guenon Douc, Desm. 

 Mamm. 54. Hair of brilliant colours ; upper part of the 

 head brown, with a frontal band of deep chestnut ; hair of 

 the cheeks very long, dirty white ; fore-arms white, extend- 

 ing to the thumbs and fingers, which are black , tail white. 

 Inhabits Cochin-China. (Madagascar, according to Har- 

 court.) 



GENUS VIII. Semnopithecus, CUVIER. 

 Head round ; nose flat ; facial angle 45 ; limbs long ; thumbs 

 of anterior extremities very short ; cheek-pouches and naked cal- 

 losities ; tail very long and thin ; posterior grinder of the lower 

 jaw with five points ; form slender. India and Indian Archipelago. 

 PLATE VIII. 1. S. MELALOPHOS, the Simpai. Fred. C\iv. 

 Mammif. Simia melalophos, Raff. Trans. Lin. Soc. xiii. 

 The face blue ; forehead with a black band of long hairs, in 

 the form of a tuft or crest ; the hair of the upper parts clear 

 red-brown ; beneath, and in the inside of the limbs, tawny 

 and whitish. Inhabits Island of Sumatra. 

 2. S. MAURUS, Negro Monkey. Middle-size Black Monkey, 

 Edw. Glean. S. maurus, Horsf. Hair soft and silky, 

 intensely black ; the breast, belly, inner surface of extre- 

 mities and root of the tail, gray ; in very old individuals, 

 crown and upper parts tinged with gray. Inhabits Island 

 of Java. 



PLATE IX 3. S. ENTELLUS, the Entellus Monkey. Entelle, 

 Audeb. Cercopithecus entellus, Geoff. Ann. du J/tw.,xix. 

 95. Hair yellowish-white, paler beneath ; face and hands 

 black.. Inhabits Bengal. 



4. S. PYURHUS, the Lutung Horsf. Java. Hair soft and 

 ilky ; above, shining red ; beneath, and inside the hmba, 



