770 DR. J. MURIE ON MACACTJS ARCTOIDES. [June 18, 



6. Observations on the Macaques. — II. Belanger's Monkey. 

 By Dr. James Murie, F.L.S., F.G.S., &c. 



[Keceived May 29, 1872.] 



Macacus arctoides, Is. Geoff. 



Macacus arctoides, Is. Geoff. St.-Hilaire, Zool. de Voy. de Be- 

 langer, 1830 ; Mag. de Zool. 1833, pi. i., and Cat. Mus. Hist. Nat. 

 Paris, 1851, p. 31 ; Chenu, Encycl. d'Hist. Nat. p. 148, fig. 118. 



Pithecus arctoides, De Blainville, Osteographie, Atlas, ii. pi. vii. 

 figs. 1, 2, 3. 



Macacus arctoides, Gerrard, B. M. Cat. of the Bones of Mammalia, 

 1862, p. 16. 



Macacus melanotus, Gray, B. M. Cat. of Monkeys, Lemurs, and 

 Fruit-eating Bats, 1870, p. 29. 



Macacus brunneus, Anderson, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 628. 



In a communication to this Society, Dr. J. Anderson, the active 

 Superintendent of the Indian Museum at Calcutta, gave the diagnosis 

 and a short description of a male Monkey from Bhamo, in Upper 

 Burmah, which he believed to be new to science. He designated it 

 the Brown Monkey, Macacus brunneus. 



A second notice followed on its external characters and anatomy, 

 and was read on the 6th of February last. This referred more par- 

 ticularly to a young male from Cachar, where it is said they are not 

 common. Mr. Jamrach, I believe, brought over some live specimens ; 

 and at present there are one male and two females exhibited in the 

 Gardens. 



Thoroughly interested in Dr. Anderson's first letter, I was still 

 more so in his second notice ; for I surmised he had come across a 

 rare although already known species, and I was partially prepared 

 for his mention of certain peculiarities in its anatomy. 



On a recent visit to the Society's Monkey-house I examined care- 

 fully all three specimens answering to the labels Macacus brunneus, 

 and therefrom recognized, as I had anticipated, a species originally 

 described and figured by Is. Geoff. St.-Hilaire. 



A male, the type of the species*, was first transmitted to the Musee 

 d'Hist. Naturelle at Paris by M. Diard (1822), who obtained it in 

 Cochin-China. Another specimen, also from Cochin-Cbina, formed 

 part of the collection of one of the French voyageurs, and was formally 

 described but not figured by Is. Geoffroy, " dans la Zoologie du 

 Voyage de M. Belanger, 1830." Again, under the same name, 

 Macaque ursin {Macacus arctoides), the above-named writer gave 

 some remarks and a coloured figure of it in Guerin's Mag. de Zool. 

 1833, pi. i. 



M. St.-Hilaire clearly defines it from the Red-faced Monkey and 

 the " Macacme de l'lnde." He observes in the catalogue : — " Espece 

 tres-distincte de la precedente [M. speciosus] par ses longs poils plu- 



* Vide Mag. de Zool. and Cat. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, as above referred to. 



