488 QUADRUMANA. 



mouth ; the general colour of the body is dark brownish black, or, rather, 

 black, with a tinge of chestnut, more apparent on the sides of the crupper ; 

 the tint of the body passes gradually, on the fore-arms and legs, into jet 

 black ; the hair on the hands and feet is rough, and coarse ; on the back 

 the hairs are from three to four inches long, and longer still on the sides. 



ft. in. 



Length of the head and body 1 10 



Ditto tail 32 



A young specimen of the preceding, ticketed, " Du nord de la cote de 

 Malabar, par M. Dussumier, 1830," agrees precisely with the adult, 

 excepting that its hair is not even tinged with chestnut, but is black, with 

 greyish-black roots, the grey being a little more apparent about the hip- 

 joint ; the tail is slightly grizzled ; the hair of the hands and feet is rough. 



ft. in. 



Length of head and body 11 



Ditto tail 18 



Of two specimens in the museum of the Zoological Society, London, 

 the adult (No. 17 a, of Catalogue, Mamm. 1838), is black, the top of the 

 head being covered with long, bright, flaxen- brown, undulating hairs ; 

 the occipital portion of the head is of the same colour as the body ; the 

 whiskers are bushy, and brown ; the hairs of the face are black ; the 

 crupper and outside of the thighs are grizzled, as is the tail, but more 

 obscurely. 



ft. in. 



Length of head and body 24 



Tail imperfect 



Length of feet 7 



Ditto hands 5| 



From Madras. 



The younger specimen (No. 17, Catal., Mamm.) also from Madras, 

 presented by J. M. Heath, Esq., differs from the preceding, in having 

 the whole head and back of the neck of a flaxen-brown ; the hairs on the 

 top of the head, and the whiskers, are comparatively shorter, and there is 

 no decided grey on the crupper ; but the outside of the thighs is suffused 

 with sooty brown. 



This species was first characterized and named by Fischer, in his 

 Synopsis Mammalium, p. 25, 1829, from a description by John (Bes- 

 chreib. einiger Affenarten in Neuen Schriften der Gellesch. Naturf. 



