CERCOPITHECID.E viata 
of the highlands of Eastern Tibet and Kansu, is remarkable for the 
peculiar upturned nose, in which respect, as already mentioned, 
it recalls the young of Vasilis lurratus. The genus is represented 
in India and Burma by no less than fourteen species, of which the 
common Indian Langur, or Hanuman Monkey (8. ente//us) and 
the larger Himalayan Langur (8. schisfoceus) are two of the best 
known. In the former the length of the head and body is about 
24, and that of the tail 38 inches in adult males. This monkey, 
owing to the veneration in whieh it is held by the Hindus, is a 
great pest’ in many parts of India, frequently pilfering grain from 
the shops in the native bazaars. According to Mr. Blanford, 
it “is usually found in smaller or larger communities, composed 
of individuals of both sexes and of all ages, the youngest clinging 
to their mothers and being carried by them, especially when 
alarmed, An old male is occasionally found solitary, as with so 
many other mammals... . Apart from villages, the high trees 
on the banks of streams or of tanks, and, in parts of Central 
India, rocky hills are the favourite haunts of these monkeys. 
Whether on trees, on rocks, or on the ground, they are exceedingly 
active.” The closely allied 5. schisfaveus attains a larger average 
size, full grown males attaining a length of 30 inches, the tail 
measuring 36 inches. In the spring and winter this species may 
be observed in the Kashmir Himalaya leaping among the snow-laden 
trees of the forest. In a fossil state Semmnopitheens occurs in the 
Pleistocene and Pliocene of India, and it has also been recorded 
from the Pliocene of France and Italy. 
olohtts 1— This African genus differs from Scmnopithecus in that 
the pollex is absent or reduced to a small tubercle, which may or may 
not carry a nail, About eleven species have been described, some 
of which are remarkable for the beautitul mantle of long silky 
hair which hangs down from each side of the body, and for their 
tufted tails. In CL guerest from Abyssima these are white, and the 
rest of the body and limbs black. Others (as C. sufanas) ave entirely 
black. The skins of the long-haired species are largely imported 
into Europe for the manufacture of ladies’ muffs, ete. 
Extinct. Genere.—Certain types of Apes from the European 
Tertiavies indicate genera’ referable to the Cercopithecida, but 
distinet from any of those now living. Of these MWes«pithecus,? from 
the Lower Pliocene Pikermi beds of Attica, is known by almost 
complete skeletons, and resembles Jacacus in the shertness and 
stoutness of the limbs, but agrees with semnepificens in the characters 
of the skulland teeth. An allied Monkey from the Lower Pliocene 
of Perpignan, in France, differs from WVWesrjiitheens peitelict by its 
superior size, proportionately more produced muzzle, and larger 
1 Miger, Prodronivs Syst. Mai, et Avis. p. 69 (1811). 
2 Wagner, Gelehrte Aizeigen, vol. vili, No. 38. p. 310 (183%. 
