194 Dr. D. G. Elliot on apparently new 



Family Cercopithecidae. 



Genus Papio. 

 Papio strepitus, sp. n. 



Type locality. Fort Johnston, Nyasaland, S.E. Africa. 



Ge7i. char. Size large, exceeding the dimensions of 

 P. pruinusus ] hair very long, loose; face partly naked; 

 brain-case about two thirds the length of the facial region ; 

 nasals only slightly raised above rostrum, wide anterioily ; 

 pit in side of lower jaw long and deep ; palate narrow and of 

 nearly equal width throughout its entire length ; tooth-rows 

 straight. 



Colour. Forehead mixed pale yellow and black; crown 

 and nape dull tawny ochraceous, centre of crown darker, the 

 hairs ringed with dull tawny ociiraceous and black, tliose on 

 side Frout's brown at base, rest tawny ochraceous. The 

 appearance of the crown and nape is more reddish than 

 yellow, with a dark central portion ; sides of head below ears 

 buff; lower part of neck to n)iddle of back purplish drab 

 and ochraceous buflF; base of hairs purplish drab, the rest 

 ringed with black and ochraceous buff, some hairs tawny 

 ochraceous tipped with black. The purplish drab of the 

 base of hairs dominates the other colours and gives a kind of 

 dark patch to this part of the back. On the shoulder is a 

 patch of hairs, buff at their roots, graduating to cream-buff at 

 their tips, not ringed ; lower part of back paler than the 

 upper, more yellow showing, and over all the upperparts are 

 numerous long hairs with whitish tips ; flanks ochraceous 

 buff; upper part of arms, entire legs, and feet ochraceous 

 buft"; forearms and hands mixed ochraceous buff and black, 

 the latter being the colour of the base of the hairs showina: 

 through; underpaits yellowish grey ; tail at base like back, 

 mixed black and ochraceous, tip ochraceous buff; cheeks and 

 sides of nose and the lips covered with short yellowish hairs; 

 upper eyelids flesh-colour, space beneath the eyes and the 

 nose black. 



Measurements. Head and body 915 mm, ; tail C09 (skin). 

 Skull: total length 195; occipiio-nasal length 160; hen- 

 sel 139; intertemporal width 58; zygomatic width 115; 

 palatal length 86; bieadth of brain-case 79; length of 

 nasals 72; anterior widtli cif nasals 14; length of ufiper 

 molar series 45 ; length of mandible 115; length of lov\er 

 molar series 60. 



B.M. no. of type 97. 10. 1. 9. 



