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with both of them, will shortly describe their characters more 

 minutely. 



The same gentleman has also forwarded for my inspection an im- 

 perfect skin of a half-grown animal, received from the Coimbatore dis- 

 trict or its vicinity, which presents the colouring of true entellus, and 

 has the black hands and feet well marked; but the coat is different in 

 texture, the hairs of it being quite straight, and not exhibiting the 

 waviness which is constantly observable in those of 5. entellus of every 

 age, causing the light to fall irregularly on each hair of the latter 

 species, while on those of the specimen in question, as in S. anchises, 

 the shine is uniform, and the sames traightness of hair is observable 

 in S. priam : this may appear a trivial distinction, but it is never- 

 theless a well marked one, which at once characterises S. entellus 

 apart from either of the others; and I incline to consider, for the pre- 

 sent at least, the skin under consideration to be a doubtful variety of S. 

 anchises, the more especially as its coat is also longer than in speci- 

 mens of S. entellus of corresponding age. 



Another allied species, of which the description does not tally with 

 either of the foregoing, is the S. schistaceus, Hodgson, J. A. S. IX, 

 1212, "from the Tarai forest and lower hills, rarely the Kachar also," 

 of Nepal ; and which would seem to approach nearest to S. anchises. 

 It is described as — " Dark slaty above ; below, and the entire head, 

 pale yellow ; mere hands and feet somewhat darkened or concolorous 

 with the body above ; tail also concolorous: hair on the crown short 

 and radiated ; on the cheeks long, directed back, and hiding the ears : 

 piles or fur of one sort, neither harsh nor soft, more or less wavy ; 

 three to five and a half inches long upon the body, closer and shorter 

 on the tapered tail, which is more or less tufted." 



The Mussoorie Lungoors have been thus described to me by Capt. 

 Thos. Hutton, from whom I hope shortly to receive some specimens. 

 " I fell in," writes that observer (in a letter dated Dec. 30th,) " with 

 a whole lot of Monkeys this morning, and took a leisurely survey of 

 them ; they were dark greyish, with pale hands and feet, white head, 

 dark face, white throat and breast, and white tip to the tail. This is 

 I think the Nepal and Simla species. The Macacus rhesus is found 

 here also, but I do not remember it in the winter, though it may re- 



