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SIMIID^. 



from M. rhesus, and wlien the various specimens which were forwarded by Hodgson 

 from the southern region of Nepal to the British Museum are critically examined 

 and compared with the common bandar of Hindustan, the observer searches in vain 

 for any character of specific importance by which to separate them. Also, when 

 the close proximity of the southern portion of Nepal to the Terai is kept in view, 

 along with the circumstance that M. rhesus is widely distributed over the latter 

 region, there is nothing remarkable in the fact that the animals of both localities 



agree. 



In the British Museum there are two skulls of M. omops presented by Hodgson, 

 but unaccompanied by their skins. The one is a male and the other a female. In 

 the male, the naso-orbital process of the maxilla is nearly vertical and the nasals are 

 rather deeply concave, and the portions of the maxilla lying between the nasals and 

 the orbital margins are concave or depressed ; the breadth across the base of the 

 muzzle being but little in excess of its breadth over the anterior margins of the 

 canine alveoli : but all of these characters belong to a not uncommon type of 

 M. rhesus, in which, however, the relative breadth of the muzzle at its base and at 

 its extremity is the subject of considerable diversity, apart altogether from the 

 effects of age. This skull is fully adult, and as it is interesting as a ferine 

 example of this species, I give the accompanying figures of it (figs. 5 and 6). 



Fig. 5.-Skun of M. rhesus, from Nepal, the type of Hodgson's 31. {pithex) oinops. 



■ nat. size. 



