HYLOBATES. S3 



9. Bylobates leuciscus. 



The Long-^rmed Ape, Pennant, Mist. Quad. vol. i, 3rd ed., 179S, 



pi. xxxviii, p. 184. 

 The Long-armed Ape (var. (3), Pennant, Hist. Quad. vol. i, 3rd ed., 



1793, p. 184. 

 I/e Moloch, AKdebert, Hist. Nat des Singes, 1" fam., see. ii, fi^. ii. 

 The Long-armed Ape (white var.), Shaw, Gen. Zool. vol. i, pt. 1. 1840, 



p. 12, pi. vi. 

 Le Gibbon cendre, Latr., Hist, Nat. de Buff-on (Sonnini ed.), t xxxv 



(1809), p. 207, pi. X. 

 Simia leucisca, Sehreler, Sdu^eth. tab. iiiB, 1775. 

 Pithecus leuoiscus, Geoff. St.-Hil., Ann. du Mus. t. xix, 1812, p. 



89. 

 Hylobates lenciscus, Kuhl, Beitr. zur Zool. 1820, p. 6 ; Anderson, 



Anat. <^ Zool. SescL 1878, p, 7. 



Ha6. Java, 



9«. A stuffed specimen in bad condition ; yellow ; darkest 

 on the top o£ the head and the outside of the brachium j palest 

 on the nape and down the back. No. 6 of Blyth's Cata- 

 logue. Presented by the Maharajah of Burdwan^ 1848. 



6, Another specimenj like the preceding, but younger; 

 No. 6 of Blyth's Catalogue. Presented by the Maharajah of 

 Burdwan, 1848. 



c. Another, nearly the same as the two preceding specimens, 

 but tending to brownish grey on the top of the head and out- 

 side of the arms, and on the shoulders. No. 6 of Blyth's 

 Catalogue. Presented by the Maharajah of Burdwan, 1848. 



d. A stuffed adolescent female and its skull : Nos. 7 A 

 and B of Blyth's Catalogue : yellowish grey ; dark brown 

 on the vertex, on the inside of the thighs, and along 

 a line from the groin to the axilla. Pale yellowish-white 

 on the lower half of the back, and on the hips and back 

 of thighs. Fingers and toes dusky. The area of the fonta- 

 nelle in the skull is ossified as a distinct bone intercalated 

 between the anterior portion of the parietal and posterior half 

 of the frontal; last molar not through. Purchased, 183.4. 



e. A stuffed young female : pale yellow ; fuliginous on the 

 top of^the head, nape, shoulders, and upper half of the back, 

 and on the outside of the brachium ; inside of thighs, outside 

 of antibrachium tinged with fuliginous; hands concolorous 

 with antibrachium, and the feet yellow, like the legs ; area 

 around the face yellow ; chest and belly yellowish, but the 

 former tinged with fuliginous. Purchased, 18th July 1869. 



