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specimen exists, which is here referred, though with some degree of doubt, to the S. 

 Jofinii; as it differs considerably in the general tone of its colouring, from any of the 

 examples of this species hitherto examined. It is an aged female from Malabar, and 

 is accompanied by its nursling, considered to be her own offspring." The following 

 description is annexed: — " Length of head and body two feet; of tail three feet two 

 inches. The fur resembles that of an adult Entellus : the back is of a fuliginous- 

 grey, becoming darker on the shoulders and thighs, and still more so on the arms and 

 legs, where the colour is nearly black; the hands and feet being quite black: the 

 head, whiskers, and beard, which latter is conspicuous, are of a dirty straw-yellow, 

 passing insensibly into the hue of the back ; the long eye-brows, and hairs continued 

 from them over the sides of the cheeks, are black, as are also those scattered on the 

 upper lip; the face is black; the tail dark brown, its apical third being much paler; 

 the inside of the humerus, and of the thighs and the under surface of the body, are of 

 a dusky straw-colour. The nursling is covered with close, soft, soot-coloured hairs." 



This description closely applies to the fully adult male which 1 named S. hypoleu- 

 cos in my first Report to the Society, except that the size is larger, and the tail of the 

 Society's specimen is wholly black* : the dirty-whitish hue of the crown, also, is dis- 

 tinctly enough separated from the peculiar colour of the back, which Mr. Martin 

 styles a fuliginous-grey, while in my description I have termed it "a rather deep and 

 somewhat dusky brown, with a tinge of chocolate" ; but the truth is, it is by no means 

 an easy tint to express in words, being nearly the same as, but darker than, the 

 duskyish chocolat-au-lait tinge more or less developed along the croup of S. Entellus, 

 being moreover darkest between the shoulders and upon the middle of the back, and 

 paling considerably on the sides of the back and towards the rump : the Society's 

 specimen is also probably of a less deeply sullied white underneath than that described 

 by the author quoted, though sufficiently tinged with straw-yellow to render the spe- 

 cific appellation which I have bestowed on it not particularly appropriate. 



Feeling no doubt, accordingly, that the Society's specimen is identical in species 

 with that in the Paris Museum, the more especially as the latter was received from 

 Malabar, whilst at Madras I learned that the Society's animal was there known as 

 the Travancore Monkey, 1 cannot but express surprize that so experienced a student 

 of Mammalia as my friend Mr. Martin is, should have hesitated at all about recognis- 

 ing this as a distinct species from the S. Johnii, from which (independently of colour) 

 it conspicuously differs in having the hair of the whiskers and back of the head not 

 remarkably lengthened, and in having the same radiating centre on the forehead as the 

 S. Entellus ; the crown is, however, more densely clad, and with longer hair, than 

 in the Entellus, which is not similarly appressed; but, in general characters, this 

 species closely approximates the Entellus, much more than it does the Johnii, and 

 with the next would appear to form with it a slight minimum subdivision of the genus, 

 apparently peculiar to Continental India. 



Of its habits, Mr. Jerdon writes me word, " The black-armed species is peculiar 

 to the dense forest of the Western Coast. It abounds at the base of the Neilgherries 

 in Malabar, Travancore, &c, lives in small troops, and has the usual loud cry of the 

 others of this genus. The true Entellus, I have found chiefly in the neighbourhood of 



* The colour of the tail varies much in S. Entellus. 



