1840.] 



Three new species of Monkey. 



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generally : two to three and a half inches long on body, shorter on the 

 tapered, untufted tail, and not radiating on the crown of the head. 

 Females smaller, with less canines. Habitatt. Tarai and lower hills. 



2d. Species, new. Pelops (jrriXoq et a>;//) nob. Structure and aspect 

 similar to the last. Colours more sordid or purpurescent, slaty partially 

 merged in rusty ; buttocks posteally (except the callosities) clad : face 

 nude and dusky, flatter than in the last. Twenty inches long. Tail, 

 less hair, nine and a half ; hand four and a quarter ; foot five and 

 seven-eighths. Habitatt. Northern region of hills exclusively. Fur ful- 

 ler and more wavy tlian in Oinops. 



N. B.- — In all the above three species, the digits are basally con- 

 nected by membrane, which in the posterior extremities reaches for- 

 ward beyond the first phalanges. In the first, the thumb scarcely 

 reaches the base of the metacarpus : in the second and third species, it 

 extends only half way down the first phalanx of the index. In the 

 posterior extrimeties the same digit has a size and strength, especially 

 in the Macaci, more analogous to those of the thumb in our hand. In 

 Semnopithecus this digit extends a little beyond the base of the 

 metacarpus. In the Macaci to the end of first phalanx of proximate 

 digit. 



Nepal, 

 March, 1841. 



HEAD OF MACACUS OINOPS. 



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