172 Asiatic Society. [No, 134. 



The female specimen here noticed is the darkest-coloured individual of S. Entellus 

 I have ever seen, while the male is nearly identical in colour with the young (which 

 do not appear to vary, at least more than in a very trifling degree); but his hands 

 and feet are ivholly deep black, as are likewise those of the female (the feet of 

 the latter having some pale hairs intermixed), and as has equally been the case with 

 all the adults I have noticed : whereas this black is much less strongly marked in the 

 young, but is constantly present in different stages of development. Now Mr. 

 Hodgson's schistaceus is stated by him to have the mere hands and feet somewhat 

 darkened, or concolorous with the body above;" and the hue of the upper-parts is 

 described to be "dark slaty," a term which could never have been applied even 

 to the remarkably deep-coloured female Entellus now before me. On the other hand, 

 this black does not in the least ascend the limbs of the latter specimen, wherein it 

 conspicuously differs from S. hypoleucos. The hair on the cheeks of schistaceus is 

 described to be "long, directed back, and hiding the ears," which last is certainly not 

 the case in Entellus ; and that of the body is mentioned to be " three to five and a half 

 inches long," though it is possible that the word ./we has been here printed for the figure 

 3, in which case there would be no difference in this respect. The diversities indi- 

 cated, however, are quite sufficient to warrant our pausing, for further evidence, before 

 following authors in identifying the Lungoor of the Himalaya with the Hoonuman 

 of the plains (at all events of Bengal), and the current statements, therefore, regarding 

 the geographic range of the latter must, for the present, remain in abeyance.* 



Should the Lungoor prove distinct, no less than five species would accordingly 

 represent this genus in the Fauna Indica : viz. schistaceus on the Himalaya, though, 

 by the way, Mr. Hodgson describes this animal to frequent "the Tarai forest and 

 lower hills, rarely the Kachar also," of Nepal, and it may be presumed that the 

 Bootan species, and the alleged Entellus Monkey of other elevated regions of the 

 Himalaya, will prove identical; — Entellus in Bengal, being probably that of the 

 Indian peninsula generally ; — hypoleucos and Johnii in the hilly regions of the 

 South ; — and cephalopterus in Ceylon. f 



To resume my notice of the true Entellus, I observe that Mr. Martin asserts that — 

 " In young individuals, the hands and feet are washed with dusky-black, but this," 

 he adds, " is not always the case in adults, which have a paler colouring altogether 

 than the young, often verging upon dingy-white, tinged with straw-colour." This is 

 opposed to what 1 have observed of those of Lower Bengal. Considerable numbers of 



* Mr. Fraser, in his "Notes on the hills at the foot of the Himala mountains" (Journal of Tour 

 in do., p. 350), mentions " a long-tailed Ape of a dark brown colour, and considerable size," as com- 

 mon. The expression dark brown will certainly not apply to the Bengal Hoonuman. I have 

 shewn our specimens of the latter to several gentlemen familiar with the Lungoor of the Himalaya, 

 and the usual impression was, that they are different ; but Dr. Falconer (a host in himself) is 

 reluctant to consider them as distinct, although he, in common with most others, remarked at 

 once the blackness of the hands and feet, as one difference from the Lungoor. 



t A sort of out-burst of new species of mammalia, described or semi-described by Mr. J. E. Gray, 

 of the British Museum, in the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural History' for December, 1842, has 

 just reached me, wherein is assigned to India (Qy. Hindoostan?) a Presbytis nobilis (this very 

 trivial subdivision being merged in Semnopithecus by most authors). It is described as "bright 

 rufous, without any streak on the shoulders. — This species differs from the Simla melalophos of 

 Raffles in being darker, and not having a black crest; from P,flavimanus in being of a nearly uni- 

 form auburn, and not yellow, with a blackish back, and in having no black streak across the 

 shoulders or on the cheek." p. 256. 



