1847.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society '. 731 



Cynocephalus porcarius, (Boddaert.) The common Cape Baboon, procur- 

 ed dead from a dealer. 



The most nearly allied Asiatic species constitute the division Papio apud 

 Ogilby, which name is however assigned by Mr. Gray to the African Mandrill 

 and Drill. Acknowledging the group as Mr. Ogilby established it, it seems 

 that Inuus, Geoffrey (applied by that naturalist to the Magot of Barbary), has 

 the best claim to be retained as its appellation. Two minor groups are com- 

 prised, viz. the Silenus of Mr. Gray, from which surely cannot be separated 

 I. arctoides, I. nemestrinus, and I. niger j while I. rhesus is more allied to I. 

 sylvanus* The Society's present specimens are as follow : — 



I. silenus, (L.) Very fine examples of the male and female ; the former pur- 

 chased (dead), the latter received from Barrackpore. Also a fine mounted 

 skeleton of an adult male. This species of Monkey is stated by all authors 

 to be indigenous to Ceylon ; but I have the authority of Dr. R. Templeton of 

 Colombo for stating that it does not inhabit that island, though tame speci- 

 mens are often taken there. In Travancore and Cochin, it occurs abundantly 

 in a state of nature. 



I. arctoides (?, Is. Geoff.) : described, with a mark of doubt, as I. nemestri- 

 nus in XIII, 473. Adult male, and a young specimen, from Arracan ; present- 

 ed by Capt. Phayre. 



I. nemestrinus, (L.) Nearly full grown male, purchased (dead) ; adult female, 

 presented by Mr. E. Linstedt ; and the Society possesses the skeleton of an 

 adult male, and also a living male. Common in the Malayan peninsula, Su- 

 matra, &c. 



I. rhesus, (Lin.) : Pithex oinops, Hodgson. Specimens of large adult male, 

 and of female with young at the breast, procured in the Soonderbuns ; also a 

 younger adult male ; and a huge and monstrously obese male, of which the 

 carcass was picked up in the public street and brought to the Museum. Com- 

 mon in the Bengal Soonderbuns, Assam, &c. 



The name Macacus should apply typically to the Macaque of Buffon, and 

 various allied'species which are scarcely (if at all) separable from the Manga- 

 beys of Africa, to which M. carbonarius especially approximates, with its dark 

 face and pale eyelids. 



M. cynomolgus, (Lin.) Adult male, purchased alive : female, from Malacca, 

 presented by Mr. Frith ; ditto, from Ye, presented by the Rev. J. Barbe ; 

 young, from the Nicobar Islands, presented by Capt. Lewis; ditto, from 

 Timor, presented by Mr. W. Benson. Common in the Malay countries. 



* Of the whole of the species here mentioned (excepting 1 arctoides), I am familiar with 

 the living adults. 



