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The most different from the rest is «S. hypoleucos, Nobis, J. A. S. 

 X, 839, and XII, 170 ; which is characterized by its comparatively 

 small size, deep colouring, and black fore-arms and hands, feet, and 

 tail ; the head being of a dirty pale straw-colour. Inhabits the Malabar 

 range and Travancore. 



Next, S. entellus (verus), F. Cuv., is the representative of the 

 group in Bengal and Assam, extending (as I have been informed) 

 into Cuttack. It has constantly black hands and feet; the fore-arm 

 and leg externally, with the croup, are cf a pale chocolat au lait 

 colour, extending more or less over the back, humerus, and thigh ; and 

 the rest is of a light straw-colour, or pale isabelline, with occasion- 

 ally a tinge of ferruginous on the belly. It is figured by the 

 late Mr. Bennett in the ' Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological 

 Society.' 



Very different is the 5. priam, Elliot, of the Coromandel coast, 

 which has nought of the yellowish tinge, the whole back and outside 

 of the limbs, with the crown of the head, being nearly of the chocolat 

 au lait hue confined to parts of the former, but having more of the 

 lait in it, and as usual being most intense about the croup ; the hands 

 and feet are pale and concolorous with the rest of the limbs; the 

 whiskers and occiput whitish ; and a strongly marked peculiarity con- 

 sists in having an abruptly rising erect crest upon the vertex, analo- 

 gous to that of S. cristatus (vel? obscurus). 



The S. anchises, Elliot, represents the former in the Deccan and 

 along the foot of the western ghauts. A skin presented to the Society 

 by that gentleman, with three examples of S. priam, resembles the 

 darkest specimens of S. entellus in colour, but has the leg from the knee 

 whitish (perhaps not a constant distinction), the hands mingled 

 white and blackish, and the feet whitish, with dusky black above 

 the base of the toes and on their terminal phalanges; but the 

 coat generally is much longer than in S. entellus, the hairs on 

 the sides measuring four, five, and even six inches in length, and 

 those which grow upon the toes, and in a less degree those of the 

 fingers, which are very copious, are also remarkably elongated, ex- 

 tending considerably beyond the tips of the toes, which thus present 

 a Spaniel-like appearance. Mr. Elliot, to whom the merit is due 

 of first distinguishing these species, and who is well acquainted 



