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Show 944 CAPT.T. HUTTON ON THE GEOGRAPHICAL [Nov. 28, laid backwards, does not reach the base of the caudal. The distance between the dorsal and caudal fin is much greater than the least depth of the tail. Coloration uniform brownish ; back and sides finely black-dotted. Operculum with a golden tint. Total length 7 inches. Hab. Creeks in South Australia. 9. O n the Geographical Range of Semnopithecus entellus. B y Capt. T. H U T T O N , C.M.Z.S. The particular species of Monkey to which the name of Hoo-noomaun now more especially and properly applies is known to naturalists as the Semnopithecus entellus ; and notwithstanding the frequent and dogmatic assertions of travellers as to its occurrence throughout all India, from Cape Comorin to the Himalaya, the species is entirely and absolutely restricted within narrow limits to the hot tropical plains of the south-western Gangetic provinces, where, from the degree of protection which its imputed " odour of sanctity" is so well calculated to cast around it, as well as from the numbers in which it frequently occurs, it becomes a perfect nuisance in those parts of the country where the superstitious veneration for it most strongly prevails. In many places, where the natives from religious motives are in the habit of feeding and protecting them, the roofs of the village huts are at certain hours of the day literally crowded with them, and the depredations committed in grain-shops, gardens, and among the neighbouring crops are most destructive and unsaintlike. Mr. Blyth speaks of the frequent occurrence of troops of these Monkeys around Kishnagur in Lower Bengal, and observes that he never met with them eastward of the Hooghlee ; this is a slight error, as Kishnagur is itself to the eastward of that river. If he meant to say that they were not in their natural habitat to the eastward of the Hooghlee he would be correct, as the animal was purposely introduced into Kishnagur by devotees. The fact is that Mr. Blyth confounds the Hooghlee with the Jellinghee river, the former originating only in the junction of the Bhagiruttee and Jellinghee a little below Kishnagur, and thence proceeding to Calcutta and the sea. Kishnagur itself is situated on the left bank of the Jellinghee, which bounds the eastern side of the island of Cossimbazaar or Moorshedabad ; and the Bhagiruttee bounds the western side,-both these Gangetic offshoots forming a junction to the south of the island a little below Kishnagur, and about sixty miles or so above Calcutta. The Entellus having been purposely introduced into that locality some years ago proves that the animal is not a native of that side of the river, but is wholly confined by nature to the right banks of the Ganges and Hooghlee. Mr. Blyth likewise remarks with reference to the Entellus : - " I know of one locality where the whole |