726 PRIMATES 
produced into a large proboscis. Other characters as in Semmo- 
pithecus. 
This genus includes only the Proboscis Monkey (WN. larvatus) of 
Borneo, remarkable for the great prolongation of the nose in the 
adult. In young animals the nose is relatively much shorter, and 
Fic. 349.—Semnopithecus rovellane. (From Milne-Edwards, Recherches des 
Mammiferes, pl. 36.) 
bent upwards after the manner of that of Semnopithecus roxellane 
(Fig. 349). 
Semnopithecus.'—Pollex small; narial aperture extending up- 
wards between the orbits. Now confined to Asia. 
This genus is characteristic of South-Eastern Asia from the 
Himalaya southwards, the Oriental region being its head-quarters. 
The development of the muzzle is less than in the Macaques, and 
the facial angle is higher, but it does not appear that this indicates 
greater intellectual capacity. The outlying S. roaellane 2 (Fig. 349), 
1 F, Cuvier, His/, Nat. des Mammiferes (1821), * Semno-pithéque.” 
* Separated generically by some writers as Rhénopithecus. 
