104 RHINOPITHECUS 
Type locality. Atentse, Chinese Province of Yunnan. Type in 
Paris Museum. 
Geogr. Distr. Chinese Province of Yunnan; left bank of the 
Mékong, and right bank of Blue Rivers, Eastern Thibet. 
Genl. Char. Size very large, powerful; body heavy, limbs moder- 
ate; tail long, rather thick. Just back of the forehead rises a narrow 
crest extending along center of head to occiput, diminishing in length 
as it goes backward, until it is very short on occiput. In front the long 
hairs curved forwards nearly reaching the brow. Hairs on tail curly. 
Colors black, brown and white. 
Color. Forehead and center of head occupied by the crest; crest 
itself, nape, entire upper parts and sides, outer side of arms, outer 
edge of thighs, and all the legs below knees, with hands, feet, and tail 
black with a brownish tinge on sides of body, and basal half of tail; 
sides of head and nape, and sides of face sooty white; a band across 
upper part, and line down center of chest dark brown; chin, throat, 
sides of neck below ears extending back to shoulders, inner side of 
arms above elbows, and thighs white, the hairs on thighs very long 
and hanging down from hinder edge in a thick fringe; inner side of 
forearms at elbow, and for a short distance below, and inner side 
of hind limbs dark reddish brown. Face around eyes green. Ex type 
Paris Museum. 
Measurements. Total length, 1,409.7; tail, 723.9; foot, 230.9. 
Skull: Male. Total length, 133; occipito-nasal length, 105; Hensel, 
broken; zygomatic width, 103; intertemporal width, 52; width of 
braincase, 78; median length of nasals, 10; palatal length, 53; length 
of upper molar series, 34; length of mandible, 95; length of lower 
molar series, 43. Ex type Paris Museum. 
This is a splendid species, even larger than R. RoxXELLANZ&, but 
lacks all the fine coloring of that animal, the hues of this one being 
restricted to brown, black and white, but the white is so effectively 
placed, that the individuals are very conspicuous even among their 
more brilliantly colored relatives. An entire family is in the Paris 
Museum, comprising adults and young. . 
M. A. Milne-Edwards says of this fine animal (1. c.) that “in the 
region of Tsékon, the R. Bietr is known by the name of Tchru-tchra 
or Monkey of the snows. It is difficult to give with precision the 
‘limits of its dispersion. As we have already indicated, all the 
individuals the Museum possesses were taken in the extreme north- 
western part of the Chinese Province of Yunnan, on the left bank of 
