On a new Baboon 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; length of 

 rosfrum 119; palatal foramina 37-5. 



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



Type. 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 

 Salawatti form from its thickly clothed New Guinea ally. 



LXXI. — Description of a new Baboon from British East 



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



Family Cercopithecidae. 



Genus Papio. 



Papio fura.v, sp. n. 



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

 Africa. 



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

 darker and cranial characters very different. The rostrum is 

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

 rise above the plane of the rostrum, but are Hat, 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 ; liuibs black 

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

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



• When describinp; A. B. Bartoni, I omitted to mention that the tvpe 

 liail no les3 than five claws on both fore and liind feet ; but considerable 

 variation in this respect has already been recorded. 



