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Zia. A stuffed adolescent female : blackish brown {above, 

 passing into black on the hands and feet ; beard and all the 

 under parts yellowish white, but with a greyish tint on the 

 sides of the chest ; inside of the fore and hind limbs pure 

 pale yellowish, running as a mere but prominent line to the 

 •wrists and ankles. A narrow, unsullied yellowish-white line 

 down the centre of the chest and belly ; tail greyish at the 

 base underneath. Purchased, 11th December 1867. 



i. A stuffed adult female like the preceding, and its skull, 

 but the chest and belly are greyish black, with the exception 

 of the narrow median yellow white line ; the white on the 

 inside of the limbs is confined to the brachium and thigh ; 

 beard sparse and greyish. Presented by Wm. Rutledge, Esq., 

 6th July 1869. 



c. Skin and bones of the trunk of a young female, like the 

 preceding, but with the white of the inside of the fore limbs 

 prolonged to the wrist. Presented by Wm. Rutledge, Esq., 

 10th April 1876. 



25. Semnopithecus melalophus. 



Semnopittecus melaloplius, F. Cuv„ Hist. -Nat. des. Mammif., t. ii, 



livr". xxK. J ttillet 1821, pi. iv ; Anderson, Anat. Sf Zool. Resch. 



1878, p. 34. 

 Semnopithecus flaviuaanus. Lesson, Cent. Zool. 1830, Augt. p. 109, 



pi. xl. 

 Semnopithecus sumatranus, var. aurata, Midler and Schlegel, VerhMidl. 



1839-44, pi. X, bis, fig. 2, head of ? • 

 Presbytes melalophus. Gray, Hand-list Mamm. B. M. 1843, p. 2. 

 Presbytes flavimana, Gray, Hand-list Mamm. B. M. 1843, p. 3. 

 Presbytes nobilis. Gray, Hand-list Mamm. B. M. 1843, p. 3. 

 Semnopithecus nobilis, Cfray, Cat. Monkeys and Lemurs, B. M„ 



1870, p. 17. 



Hah. Sumatra. 



25a. A stuffed young female, the skull and bones of the 

 trunk ; uniform pale yellowish-white, except on the crest and 

 back, which are marked with blackish brown; hands and feet 

 yellowish ; face in life leaden bluish black, with whitish around 

 the eyes and lips. Crest erect and laterally compressed. 

 Presented by Wm. Rutledge, Esq., 4th December 1874. 



6. A stuffed still younger female, and its skull : the same 

 as the preceding. Presented by Wm. Rutledge, Esq., 11th 

 May 1875. 



c. The skull of a female resembling a, but with outside of 

 the limbs marked with orange-yellow, a black crest and the 



