On a nevj Baloon from British East Africa. 499 



chest and groin the hairs are coarse and bristly, blackish on 

 the former, yellowish grey on the latter. Hands and feet 

 thinly covered with short coarse bristles. Claws 3 — 3, as 

 usual *. 



Skull without marked special characters, its dimensions as 

 follows : — 



Greatest breadth 58 mm.; palate length 160; lengtli of 

 rostrum 119; palatal t'orainiiia 37-5. 



Ilab. Island of Salawatti, N.W. of New Guinea. 



Tj/pe. Old female. B.M. no. 7. 9. 5. 1. Collected 

 October 1906, and presented by Walter Goodfellow, Esq. 



The predominance of the spines and the almost entire 

 suppression of the woolly coat will readily distinguish the 

 kSalawatti form from its thickly clothed New Guinea ally. 



LXXI. — Description of a new Baboon from British Eist 

 Africa. By D. G'. Elliot, D.Sc, F.R.S.E., &c. 



Family CercopithecidaB. 



Genus Papio. 



Pcqno fura.r, sp. n. 



Type locality. Baringo, North-west of Mt. Keiiia, East 

 Africa. 



Gen. char. Ensembles P. doguera from Abyssinia, but 

 darker and cranial characters very different. The rostrum is 

 shorter and much broader and flatter, and the nasals do not 

 rise above the plane of the rostrum, but are flat, not rounded ; 

 the palate is flatter and the distance between the last molar 

 and the palatal arch is much greater ; the intertemporal 

 width is much less, as is also the width of the brain-case ; the 

 pit on the side of the jaw is broader, shorter, not so deep, 

 and the zygomatic width much less. 



Colour, General colour seal-brown, the hairs banded with 

 buff, becoming ochraceous buff on the rump; the black tips 

 of the hairs so arranged over the ochraceous buff as to form 

 bands of black, though not distinctly defined ; limbs black 

 and cream-colour, the hairs having bands of those colours 

 with black tips; chest black and cream-colour; abdomen 



• Wlion d-'scribinpf A. B. B/irfoni, I oniittod to mention tliat tho tvpe 

 hnd no li'ss than tivc claws on hitli tore and liind feot ; but cousiderable 

 vuriiitiou in ibis rotipcct bus already been rocorded. 



