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Before closing this paper there are some points, connected with the geographi- 

 ■cal distribution of these two very distinct species, about which we wish to add a 

 iew words and to make an appeal for help. Of M. mulatta we have, thanks to 

 the Survey, a certain amount of material representing that species in the Kumaon 

 and Sikkim Tarais, jAssam, Chindwin to Mt. Popa in Burma, eastwards to the 

 Shan States and southwards to Prome. But though vnilatta is the common 

 monkey of India, north of the Madras Presidency, we have altogether only two 

 Survey specimens from the Central Provinces and very little information even 

 as to its occuriencc in Central India and Bengal to guide us. 



Anderson writes " I obtained on the right bank of the Irawadi, about 20-25 

 miles below Bhamo, a female monkey which closely agrees with the type of assa- 

 mensis." He also obtained a monkey from the Sunderbuns which, as we have 

 »seen, is undoubtedly a form of assamensis. Anderson also notices a monkey 

 " resembling rhesus,''' which occurs in Kashmir and is sometimes found at an 

 elevation of 10,000 feet. This is probably the monkey named " M. rhesus 

 villosus " by True, and possibly the same species as a specimen collected in Lower 

 Chitral by Capt. H. F. D. Stirling and sent to this Museum by the B. N. H. S., 

 but whether it is the same as the form noted by Blanford at Murree, by Dodsworth 

 in the Simla Hill States (J. B. N. H. S. xxii, p. 730, 1911) and by Maj. Bailey 

 and others at high elevations in the Himalayas elsewhere, we have no material on 

 which to judge. We appeal to members, who are in a position to do so, to fur- 

 nish us with good adult specimens (skin and skull) which would be invaluable at 

 this time, and to all, for aU can help in this way, to furnish information about 

 their local monkey. We should also like to hear as a fact the names of districts 

 from which the Rhesus is absent. 



