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Show 1893.] ON THE MONKEYS OF THE GENUS CERCOPITHECUS. 441 The following papers were read :- 1. Additional Notes on the Monkeys of the Genus Cercopithecus. By P. L. SCLATER, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Society. [Received April 26, 1893.] (Plate XXXIII.) Since I communicated to the Society my list of the species of Cercopithecus, at our meeting on March 14th (see above, p. 243), I have paid a visit to the Zoological Museum at Florence, under the care of Prof. Giglioli, and have had an opportunity of seeing specimens of Cercopithecus boutourlinii (see above, p. 256) belonging to that Institution,-one of the species of which I had not previously been able to examine examples. Prof. Giglioli has lately been persuaded by his friends to reunite this species to G. albo-gularis, Sykes1; but after examining the typical specimen and another one subsequently received, 1 have come to the conclusion that C. boutourlinii is quite distinct from G. albogidaris. The original specimen of C. boutourlinii was a female, received from Dr. Traversi in 1887, and stated to have been obtained in Kaifa (a province of Abyssinia to the south of Shoa) in 1885. It is in very imperfect condition, as will be seen ou inspection of the photographs which I now exhibit. The second specimen is a male, obtained by Dr. Traversi at Abugifar in G i m m a 2 in 1887 and received at Florence in 1889. From these specimens I have drawn up the following description of this species. CERCOPITHECUS BOUTOURLINII. Cercopithecus boutourlinii, Gigl. Zool. Anz. 1887, p. 509 ; Sci. P.Z. S. 1893, p. 256. Cercopithecus albigularis, Gigl. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. ser. 2, vol. vi. p. 8 (err.). 8 • Body-hairs long and rough ; upper surface black, with pale fulvous annellations, except on a line between the shoulders which is nearly black; ears nearly nude, with an inner hairy pencil ; nose, upper lip, chin, and throat white; rest of under surface and limbs and tad black, except the base of the tail, which has annel-lated hairs like the back all round. Total length of body about 21 inches, tail 24 inches, together 45 inches. 2 • Smaller, nearly similar, but less annellated on the back and the head. Hab. Southern Abyssinia, Province of Kaffa. This species, no doubt, resembles G. albogularis, and may be 1 See " Vertebrati dello Scioa," in Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, ser. 2, vol. vi. p. 2 Gimma is in Central Abyssinia to the south of the Province of Grojan, between latitudes9° and 10°. |