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Montpellier. At Wimereux the Photodrilvs is only to be met with 

 in the paths running along the beds filled with soil from the hot- 

 houses of an horticulturist at Boulogne. It is probable therefore 

 that we have to do with an exotic species which has accommodated 

 itself very well to the maritime climate of the Boulonnais. — Comjjtcs 

 Rendus, November 7, 1887, p. 872, 



N'ote on a neiu Species of Cercopithecus fro^n Kaffa, in Central 

 Africa. By Dr. Enkico H. Giglioli. 



The Royal Museum of Florence has latel}^ received from Dr. Leo- 

 poldo Traversi some important collections, among which occurs a 

 monkey evidently belonging to a still undescribed species. It is an 

 adult female, and comes from KafFa ; Dr. Traversi has sent the skin 

 and the skeleton. 



This monkey belongs to Schlegel's group vi. of Cercopithecus 

 (Monogr. des Singes, p. 82, Leyden, 1876), which includes species 

 with the hair black, " annulated with greyish or reddish white upon 

 the upper part of the body, the cheeks, and the basal part of the 

 tail," and in which Schlegel has placed two species, namely C. leu- 

 campyx, Fischer, and G. neglectus, Schlegel. The former lives in 

 Angola, has the forehead white, and received from Gray the name 

 of C. Pluto (P. Z. S. 1848, p. 57). The second inhabits the region 

 of the White Nile, and was regarded by Gray (Cat. Monkeys, 

 Lemurs, &c. B. M. p. 22, 1870) as the true C. leucampyx, but 

 differs therefrom, as noted by Schlegel {op. cit. p. 70), by having 

 the anterior margin of the thighs and a band across the hips white. 



The species here described differs clearly from the two above 

 cited by the deficiency of the white bands across the forehead, upon 

 the anterior margin of the thighs, and across the hips. On the other 

 hand it has the anterior part of the neck, the sparse hairs of the 

 upper lip, and the longer and more abundant hairs of the chin of a 

 yellowish white. The greyish annulations, with a greenish tinge 

 in some parts, are to be noted upon the hairs of the forehead, the 

 long hairs of the cheeks, the hairs which adorn the outer margins 

 of the ears, on all the lower part of the back, and on the basal third 

 of the tail. The crown of the head, the nape, the upper part of the 

 back, the limbs, and the terminal portion of the tail have the hair 

 of an intense black colour, which changes to a fuliginous brown on 

 the breast, the abdomen, and the inner parts of the thighs and legs. 

 The naked skin of the face was evidently of an azure-blue colour in 

 the living animal. The hairs are scarce towards the extremity of 

 the tail and on the fingers. 



The dimensions are as follows : — Total length (from the vertex 

 to the end of the tail) 0-880 m. ; tail 0*390 m. ; arm (from the 

 axilla to the end of the middle finger) 0*170 m. ; leg (from the 

 groin to the extremity of the toes) 0*270 m. The bones show no 

 differential characters. 



The author proposes to name this species Cercopithecus Boutour- 

 linii, after the Count Augusto Boutourline, of Florence. — Zoolu- 

 rjischer Anzeiger, No. 261, September 26, 18S7, p. 5i)9. 



