472 QUADRUMANA. 



limbs, are white, with a slight tinge of yellow ; the palms, soles, and 

 nails, are black. 



ft. in. 



Length, from forehead to root of tail 17 



Ditto of tail 23 



Two specimens, in the museum of the Zoological Society, London 

 (Nos. 14 and 14 a, of Catalogue, Mamm., 1838), brought from Sumatra, 

 by Sir T. S. Raffles, have furnished the preceding description. 



The following was taken from the specimen of S. flavimanus, in 

 the Paris Museum, the original of M. Isidore's description: The 

 general contour is slender ; the fur is long, soft, silky ; the head is orna- 

 mented with a long, peaked crest, or toupet ; the back is of a sandy red, 

 with a wash of black tinging the ends of the long hairs ; the forehead 

 and occiput are of a whitish yellow, with a brown wash, more decided 

 on the crest ; the tail is sandy red above ; the beard is white ; the belly 

 and inside of the limbs are abruptly white ; the hands and hind feet are 

 of a straw yellow. 



A figure will be found in Lesson's Cent. Zool. tab. xl. 



The present species is very closely allied to the former (S. melalo- 

 phos, F. Cuv.), with which it may be easily confounded, on a superficial 

 glance ; but from which it, however, differs in many particulars. Both the 

 hands and feet, as well as the tail, are, in this species, proportionately longer, 

 and the colouring is invariably destitute of the rich, golden red, so conspi- 

 cuous in the S. melalophos ; and, besides, there is a marked contrast 

 between that of the upper parts, and that of the chest and abdomen. 



The S. flavimanus is, undoubtedly, the S. melalophos of Raffles, 

 as the specimens brought by himself, and placed under that name, in the 

 museum of the Zoological Society of London, sufficiently prove ; but the 

 naturalists of the Paris Museum conferred that title upon another, also 

 inhabiting Sumatra, and regarded, by them, as identical with the species 

 described by Raffles, which latter, when it came into their hands, M. 

 Isidore Geoffroy perceived to be distinct from the former, the S. mela- 

 lophos of the French naturalists ; and, accordingly, he described it in 

 the Supplement to Belangers Voyage, under the name of flavimanus. 

 Hence the term, flavimanus, might be merged into a synonym of S. 

 melalophos, Raffles ; while to the S. melalophos of F. Cuvier and 

 the French naturalists a new title might be given. This, however, would 

 tend rather to increase than to disentangle the confusion ; the term 

 melalophos is, therefore, retained for the bright golden red species, and 

 flavimanus for that to which M. Isidore has appropriated it; viz., the 

 melalophos of Raffles, the Simpai of the Malays. 



GENERAL HISTORY. As in the instance of the preceding species, no 

 account of the habits of this animal, in its native woods, has been recorded by 

 travellers. It prefers the forests of the hilly districts to those of the plains. 



