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black, brownisli towards its tip. Hair of head semi-erect and back wardly directed. 

 A few black hairs before the ears, which, like the face and under surface of hands 

 and feet, are black. 



The skull of S. hypoleucus has the general features of ^S*. priamus, but it is 

 smaller and characterised by much less prominent supraorbital ridges, and by con- 

 siderably less interorbital breadth, with narrow, rather compressed nasals, in this 

 respect conforming to the female of S. priamus. A mature male skull taken from 

 the type of Blyth's S. liypoleuciis resembles in its size and frontal ridges an 

 adolescent male of S. priamus, cutting its permanent canines and last molar; 

 the teeth of this example of S. priamus being considerably larger than those 

 of ^S*. hypoleucus. The skull of the type is entire, with the exception of the occi- 

 pital and basi-occipital portion, and its length from the premaxillaries to the lamb- 

 doidal ridge is 4'26; the palate measures 1'73. The fronto-malar and greatest 

 zygomatic breadth are respectively 2'55 and 3*30. These measurements show that 

 this is the smallest of all these species. The lower jaw has a similar symphysis 

 to S. priamus, only a little narrower, and the coronoid process has much the 

 same proportion. 



This species inhabits the forests of the Malabar Coast, and does not extend 

 to Ceylon. 



Semnopithecus johnii, Fischer. 



Eiginer affenarten, C. J. John. Berlin^ Ges. Nat. Freunde N. Schr. vol. i. 1795, pp. 211, 218. 



Cercopithecus johnii, Fischer, Syn. Mamm. 1829, p. 25. 



Semnopithecus cucidlatus, Is. Geoff. St.-Hil. Zool. Voy. de B^langer, 1834, p. 38; Comptes Rendus, 

 1842, vol. XV. p. 719 ; Arch, du Mus. vol. ii. 1843, p. 641 ; Lesson, Sp. des Mammif. 1840, 

 p. 59; Miiller und Schl. Verhandl. 1839-44, p. 59 ; Wagner, Sehreber, Saugeth. Suppl. vol. i. 

 1846, p. 98; Schinz, Syn. Mam. vol. i. 1844, p. 41; Is. Geoff. St.-Hil. Cat. Method, des 

 Mammif. 1851, p. 13 ; Arch, du Mus. vol. v. 1852, p. 538 ; Gervais, Hist. Nat. des Mammif. 

 1854, p. 61 (fig. head) ; Wagner, Sehreber, Saugeth. Suppl. vol. v. 1855, p. 26 ; Dahlbom, 

 Stud. Zool. Fam. Eeg. An. 1856, pp. 87, 89; Gray, Cat. Monkeys and Lemurs, B. M. 1870, 

 p. 14. 



Semnopithecus johnii, Waterhouse, Cat. Mamm. Mus. Zool. Soc. Lond. 2nd ed. 1838, p. 5 ; Martin, 

 Charlesworth's Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. ii. new ser. 1838, p. 439; Hist. Nat. Quadr. 1841 (in 

 part), p. 487; Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. xii. 1843, p. 169; Ibid, -vol. xxvi. 1847, 

 pp. 734, 1272; Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. ii. new ser. 1848, p. 454 ; Gray, Hand-Hst 

 Mamm. B. M. 1843, p. 3; Horsfield, Cat. Mamm. E. Ind. Co. Mus. 1851, p. 8. 



Semnopithecus juhatus, Wagner, Sehreber, Saugeth. Suppl. vol. i. 1840, p. 305 ; vol. v. 1855, 

 p. 26 ; Schinz, Syn. Mamm. vol. i. 1844, p. 41 ; Horsfield, Cat. Mamm. E. Ind. Co. Mus. 1851, 

 p. 14. 



Semnopithecus cephalopterns , Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. vol. xiii. 1844 p. 469 (in part). 



Preshytis cucuUatus, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. xxviii. 1859, p. 283 ; Cat. Mamm. As. Soc. 

 Mus. 1863, p. 14. 



Presbytisjulatus, Jerdon, Mamm. Ind. 1867, p. 7. 



Wholly black or brownish black, generally deep black in the adult, with the 

 exception of the long undulating hairs of the head, which at all ages are some 



