SEMNOPITHECUS MAURUS. 

 Semnopithecus aterrimus, pectore abdomine artubus intrinsecus caudaeque basi 



subtus canis. 

 Btideng, or Lutung, of the Javanese. 

 Lotong, of the Malays.— aS"??- T. S. Raffles's Cat. of a Zool Coll. made in Sumatra, 



Tr. Linn. Soc. XIII. p. 247, 1821. 

 Simla maura, Schreh. Sdugth. I. jj. 107, t. XXII. B. 

 Simla maura, Gmel. Syst. p. 35. 



Simla maura, Div. y. Cercopithecl : Bodd. Elen. anim. I. p. 60. 

 Cercopithecus maura, Erxleh. Syst. Regn. anim. p. 41. 

 Cercopithecus maurus, Geoffr. St. Hil. Tableau des Quadrumanes. Ann. du Mus. 



T. XIX. p. 93. 

 Cercopithecus maurus, Encycl. Method. Mammalog. p. 55. Par. M. A. G. Des- 



marest, 1820. 

 Le Maure, G. Cuv. Le Regne animal, &f.p- 105. 

 Middle sized black monkey, Edwards's Glean, p. 221, t. 311. 

 Guenon n^gre, Buff. Supp. tome 7, p- 83. 

 Negro monkey, Pennaitt Quadr. 3. Ed. p. 206, and Shaw's Gen. Zool. Vol. I. 



part 1, p. 47. 



The animal which I propose to consider in the present article, has long been 

 known by the name of Simla Mavira, and it has been received into all the systematic 

 Catalogues. My principal object at present is to give an accurate figure, both of the 

 adult and of the young subject, illustrated by its history, as I observed it in Java. 



M. Cuvier enumerates the " Maure" among the Guenons, which comprise in 

 the Regne animal a considerable number of the Cercopithecl of Erxleben; and 

 M. M. Geoflfroy and Desmarest have likewise arranged our animal in the genus 

 Cercopithecus, as employed by them individually. The generic name placed at the 

 head of this article, was first proposed by M, Fred. Cuvier in the 30th Llvraison of 

 the " Histoire naturelle des Mammiferes, &c." in the description of the Cimepaye. 

 Various animals of this order, forwarded fi-om Sumatra by M. Duvaucel, enabled 

 M. Cuvier to distinguish satisfactorily the " Maure," and several other Quadrumana, 

 which will be mentioned in the sequel, from the Cercopithecl, or Guenons ; and in 

 a late work by the same Author, entitled " Des dents des Mammiferes, considerees 

 comme caracteres zoologiques," this genus is more accurately defined and illustrated 

 by the details of the character of the teeth from the species now under consideration. 



