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vegetables from some of the women and children who passed that way. On 

 one occasion, two or three huge fellows attempted to take a bottle from the 

 servant of a friend of mine who was following his master, and it was not 

 till the gentleman rode close up to them that these bold Turpins gave up 

 their felonious attempts. I cannot say whether these individuals were of 

 this species or Entellus, but most probably the former. 



Hodgson in a copy of a new edition of his Catalogue of Nepal Mam- 

 malia, gives a Presbytia themophilus. This is probably Entellus. 



3. Presbytia priamus. 



Elliot, apud Blyth, J. A. S. XII. — Blyth, Cat. 30. — Horsfield, 

 Cat. 6. — Gandangi, Tel. 



The Madras Langur. 



Descr. — Ashy gray color with a pale reddish or " chocolate au lait " tint 

 overlaying the whole back and head ; sides of the head, chin, throat and 

 beneath, pale yellowish ; hands and feet, whitish ; face, palms and fingers, 

 and soles of the feet and toes, black ; a high compressed vertical crest of 

 hairs on the top of the head ; hairs long and straight, not wavy ; tail of the 

 color of the darker portion of the back, ending in a whitish tuft. 



Much of the same size as Entellus. 

 - This species inhabits the Eastern Ghats and Southern portion of the 

 table-land of Southern India, not extending however to the Malabar Coast. 

 It also occurs 'in the Northern part of Ceylon. "We have no authentic in-i 

 formation recorded of its extension to the Deccan and Southern Mahratta 

 country, and we cannot be certain whether the species recorded by Mr. W. 

 Elliot* and Colonel Sykes, are Entellus or Priamus or Anchises? I. have 

 seen this monkey on the Eastern Ghats near Nellore, at Bangalore, where 

 it is exceedingly numerous ; near Trichinopoly, and elsewhere. It is found 

 both in forests and large groves of trees, and has the usual habits and 

 call of its tribe. It is often domesticated at Madras and other places. 



4. Presbytia Johnii. 



Simia apud Fisher. — Semnopithecus Dussumierii, Schinz. — -S. Johnii, 

 var., Martin. — S. cucullatus, Is. Geoff. — S. hypoleueos, Blyth. — 

 Blyth, Cat. 29. — Horsfield, Cat 9. 



* Catalogue of the Mammalia of the Southern Mahratta country. 



