476 Mr. O. Thomas on a neio Semnopithecus. 



Semnopitheci known there are species whose colour is red, 

 red and white, black and white, and wholly black; but, so far 

 as I know, no species as yet described, with one exception *, 

 shows a combination of all three colours — black, red, and 

 white — as is the case with the present species. 

 This striking animal I propose to name 



Semnopithecus cruciger, sp. n. 



Fur long and soft on the head and shoulders, shorter else- 

 where. Hairs of crown especially long, standing vertically 

 upright everywhere, so that there are no centres of con- 

 vergence or divergence, but that along the median line is 

 somewhat longer than that on the sides, and there is therefore 

 an ill-defined crest. Colour of crown, sides of body from 

 axilloB, haunches, and outer sides of legs to ankles brilliant 

 red, rather more chestnut on the head and paler on the lower 

 legs. Hands, outer sides of arms to the shoulders, nape, and 

 a central line (nearly 2 inches broad) down the back from the 

 withers on to the base of the tail deep glossy black, a few 

 inconspicuous yellowish or reddish hairs being, however, 

 intermixed with the black. Upper surface of feet also black. 

 It results from this arrangement of colours that when the 

 animal is laid prone, with its arms and legs extended, 

 the black of the arms and back forms a conspicuous black 

 cross on a brilliant red ground, the latter colour extending 

 from the sides down the legs, and being again bounded by 

 the black feet. 



Eyebrows black, contrasting markedly with the red fore- 

 head; short hairs of face, whiskers, hairs on ears, sides of 

 neck, whole of chin, chest, and belly, and lines down inner 

 sides of arms to wrists and legs to ankles glossy white, with 

 a faint yellowish suffusion. 



Tail above black basally, gradually becoming dirty yel- 

 lowish brown distally; beneath white, becoming duller at 

 the tip. 



The type specimen being a flat skin, with the extreme tip 

 of the tail imperfect, it is impossible to give any trustworthy 

 measurements f, but the species seems to be decidedly smaller 

 than either S. crisiatus or S. Hosei — both found in the same 

 district. 



The specimen was shot by Mr. Hose in 1887 on the sea- 



* S, chry so ff aster, see below. 



t In the bones of the foot the distance from the back of the caleaneuin 

 to the end of the second phalanx of the middle toe is 130 millim. The 

 epiphysial sutures ai'e still just visible. 



