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CBKCOPITIIECID-T. 



Colour. Back, outside of limbs, and tail greyish or earthy brown, 

 sometimes with a slight pinkish tinge : head paler brown above ; 

 feet the same colour as the limbs, or a little darker, not black. 





Fig. 8. — Head of Scmnopithecus 2ri'ia'inus. 



Lower parts pale brown. Face, palms of hands, and soles of feet 

 black. 



Dimensions. Head and body 21- inches, tail 28 (a Ceylon speci- 

 men) ; a large Wynaad example, however, measured 23 and 37 

 inches. Madras specimens are probably larger than Ceylonese. 

 An adult male Ceylon skull is 4-23 inches in extreme, 3 in basal 

 length, and 3*35 in zygomatic breadth. Another has for corre- 

 sponding dimensions 4-6, 3-28, and 3-63 inches. 



Distribution. Coromandel coast and the Caruatic as far north as 

 Nellore, also Mysore, the Wynaad, and Northern Ceylon, extend- 

 ing south as far as Trincomali and the skirts of the Kandyan hills. 

 The limits of range of this species and of tS. entellus are not exactly 

 known. S. pricnnus, I learn from Mr. W. Davison, ascends the 

 eastern slopes of the jSTilgiri hills to an elevation of 6000 feet. 



Habits. Precisely similar to those of its near ally >S. cnteUns. 



This species may be distinguished from S. oitelhis by having a 

 crest, and by the feet and hands not being black above. The form 

 of the skull is quite different, as Anderson has sho\\n : the facial 

 portion being much shorter and more concave. The distance from 

 the alveolar border of the premaxillaries to the supraorbital ridge 

 in an adult skull of S. ]iriamus is 1-7, in 8. entellus 2-25, and in 

 S. schistaceus 2-7 inches. Several other differences in the cranium 

 and mandible are noticed by Anderson. 



