SEMNOPITHECUS. 19 



Semnopithecus priamus, Elliot. 



SemnopitJiecus priam, Elliot, Blyth, Journ, As. Soc. Beng. vol. xiii. (1844), pp. 470, 476. 



Semnopithecus pallipes, Blyth, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1844, p. 312. 



Preshytis priamus, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. xvi. 1847, p. 732, pi. liv. fig. 1 ; lUdy p. 1271 ; 



vol. XX. 1851, p. 313; Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. i. new ser. 1848, p. 454; Cat. 



Mamm. As. Soc. Mus. 1863, p. 12; Horsfield, Cat. Mamm. E. Ind. Soc.'s Mus. 1851, p. 5 ; 



Kelaart, Fauna Zeylanica, 1852, p. 3 ; Wagner, Schreber, Saugeth. Suppl. vol. v. (1855), p. 33 ; 



Sir E. Tennent, Nat. Hist, of Ceylon, 1861, p. 5, fig. 2, not fig. 3; Jerdon, Mamm. Ind. 



1867, p. 7. 

 Fresbi/tis thersites, Elliot, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. xvi. 1847, p. 1271, pi. liv. fig. 3 ; 



Horsfield, Cat. Mamm. E. Ind. Co. Mus. 1851, p. 14; Kelaart, Prod. Faun. Zeylan. 1852, 



p. 5; Wagner, Schreber, Saugeth. Suppl. vol. v. 1855, p. 34; Tennent, Ceylon, Hist, of, 1860, 



p. 132, plate, fig. 1, not fig. 2 ; Hutton, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 949. 

 Semnopithecus albipes, Gray, Cat. Monkeys and Lemurs, B. M. 1870, p. 15. 



Pale ashy grey on the upper parts, darkest on the back. The sides of the head, 

 nape, lower half of the thigh, and the hands and feet yellowish. The outside of 

 the fore-limb and the remainder of the thigh are pale ashy like the trunk. The 

 under parts and the inside of the limbs are yellowish. The tail is concolorous 

 with the back, but paler towards its somewhat tufted extremity. The face, ears, 

 and under surface of the feet black. 



Such are the characters of specimens from the Coromandel Coast. 



Those from Ceylon are much darker, being of a pale vinaceous brown on the 

 upper parts, except on the sides and front of the head, and on the nape and back 

 of thighs which are yellowish. The vertex, the outside of the limbs, and the 

 tail are also vinaceous brown. The under parts and the inside of the limbs are 

 yellowish. 



Blyth described S. priamus as having a compressed, high, vertical crest, but as 

 one of the specimens in the Indian Museum referred by Blyth to S. priamus shows 

 no sign of a crest, and as Blyth states that this individual did not possess a crest 

 in life, I removed the skulls of the two types of S. priamus (No. 30 A & B of 

 Blyth's Cat. of Mamm.), and in A, which has a short erect crest, I found that 

 the skin on the vertex had been cut open and cotton-wool introduced between 

 the skull and the skin, and that where the cotton- wool was, there the crest existed. 

 In the other specimen, B, the short crest occurred exactly over the point of a 

 wire which perforated the skull and pressed against the skin. Therefore, until 

 the crest has been observed in the living animal, I am inclined to believe that 

 it had been produced in these stuffed specimens by the bad preparation of the 

 skins in mounting them. 



The type of S. thersites was from Ceylon, and does not differ in any essentials 

 from the Ceylon individual referred by Blyth to S. priamus. 



The skull of S. priamus in its adult condition is considerably smaller than 

 that of S. entellus ; the vertical depth of its face is relatively less than in that 

 species, while, on the other hand, it is proportionately broader across the orbits. 



