454 Mr. BlytVs Remarks upon specimens of Mammalia and Birds 
more slender than the preceding joints, and is rather longer than 
the fifth and the sixth joints together : the eyes are red, and 
rather prominent : the tip of the month is brown, and reaches 
the middle hips : the nectaries are very short, and not more than 
one-twentieth of the length of the body : the legs are rather 
short ; the tips of the feet are brown. 
1st variety. The feelers are less than half the length of the 
body. 
The oviparous wingless female. The body is spindle-shaped, 
and contains two eggs : the feelers are rather less than half the 
length of the body : the hind-shanks are not dilated. 
The wingless male. It has a narrower body, and longer and 
stouter legs than the female : the body is nearly linear, and ob- 
tuse at the tip : the feelers are much stouter than those of the 
female , the fifth joint is shorter than the fourth ; the sixth is 
much shorter than the fifth. 
Length of the body line. 
Sometimes above eight hundred insects of this species feed 
together under a single leaf of the willow, S. caprea, from the 
beginning of May till the end of October, the latter month being 
" the time for the appearance of the male and of the oviparous 
female. 
[To be continued.] 
XL VIII. — Corrections of Critical Remarks on Mr. Gray’s Ca- 
talogue of Mammalia and Birds presented hy B. H. Hodgson, 
Esq., to the British Museum” Ann. and Mag. N. H. vol. xx. 
p. 313. By E. Blyth, Curator to the Museum of the Asiatic 
Society, Calcutta. 
Page 313. Presbytis priamus does not inhabit Ceylon, but the 
entelloid group of monkeys is represented over the low northern half 
of that island by a peculiar species, of which Dr. R. Templeton (late 
of Colombo) has favoured me with a living adult male, which I have 
since figured and described by the name Pr. thersites, Elliot (J. A. 
S. B. xvi. 1271). I have given coloured figures also of Pr. entellus 
(verus), Pr. priamus, Pr. hypoleucos, Pr. Johnii, Pr. cephalopterus 
(three varieties of colour), Pr. pileatus and Pr. Phayrei. There is 
another large monkey in Ceylon, peculiar to the elevated and colder 
parts of the island*, which remains to be examined, but would seem 
to be very probably Pr. Johnii, which is common in the Neilgherries ; 
and Dr. Templeton assures me of the existence of a small monkey 
probably undescribed, — all additional to the w^ell-known Pr. cephalo- 
* See Major Forbes’s ‘Journal of Eleven Years’ Residence in Ceylon,’ 
ii. IH. 
