stances attending the life of M. lasiotis were unfavourable to the full development
of the animal, and it is possible, as A. M.-Edwards says, that it may attain to a
considerable size, but it can hardly equal M. nemeatrmua. The scapula, one of the
few bones of the male which have been preserved, indioates a large and powerful
animal and considerably exceeds in-size any scapula of M. rkems that has come
under my observation, from which it is chiefly distinguished by its greater breadth.
The male, as stated, is supposed to have come from Tse-ohuen, which is a very
mountainous province of Western China, and the female from the mountains of
Tcheli to the north-east.
Measurements o f skull o f M. lasiotis, Gray.
Anterior border of exoccipital foramen to tip of premaxillsB .
Greatest length, occipital, to tip o f p r em a x i l l® .......................................
Occipital ndge to nasal process of frontal . ... . . • * . • .*
Anterior margin o f auditory opening to tip of premaxilla •
Breadth between auditory processes . • ' • • •
Greatest breadth behind root o f z y g o m a ........................................
„ facial breadth across fronto-malar suture . . . .
Anterior margin of occipital foramen to palate (post, border)
End of premaxilla to nasal process o f frontal . . . . .
Breadth of skull in temporal fossa (postorbital contraction) .
„ across zygomatio a rches......................................................................
, of muzzle at base of last tooth, . . . . * •
„ „ first b ic u sp id ..................................................
Height o f orbit . • • • • • • '■■■*■; . | | ‘ ^
Diameter of o r b i t ........................................
Length o f lower jaw in a line with alveolar margin . • • •
M a c a c u s s a n c t i - j o h a n n i s , Swinhoe.
Inches.
385
5-30
3-77
3-96
3-00
315
3 3 0
1-56
2-50
2-00
892
1-60
1-61
1-00
1-14
3-50
A w . aandiioHnni*. Swinhoe, Proe. Zool. Soe. 1865, p. 556; Blyth, Joum. As. Soc. Bengal,
ay, Cat. Monkeys and Lemurs, B. M. 1870, Append, p. 129 (in-
p a rt); Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 222.
Macacus rhesus, Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 222.-
Swinhoe, in a letter addressed to Dr. Sclater1 on the 7th September 1866,
described a monkey from North Lena Island, Hong-Kong, under the name of to c fc -
johaamia, after Commander St. J o h n , f r o m w h o m he had received the ammal alive,
and which was forwarded to the Collection in Kegent’s Park, London. Commander
St. John described it as a female about four-mopths old, and Swinhoe characterised
it thus • 1 Eyes bright hazel; face and ears flesh-coloured; cheeks with a black tuft
on either cheek like whiskers; skin of. nude parts tinted with blue and sparsely
greyish brown, covered with hairs of a light grey; the hairs on the belly, buff; fur
of upper parts washed with buff, which i s lighter on the head, and brickdnst-red
round and about the rump. T a flA i inches, blackish; callosities flesh-coloured.
Pace narrow, somewhat projecting.
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, 13th December, p. 856.
This specimen was after its death deposited in the British Museum (68. 12.
29. 10.), in which coflection it has been preserved in alcohol. I t is to he regretted
that Swinhoe did not record the measurements of the body as well as the length of
the tail, as we would thus have been in a position to gain some idea of the growth
of the animal during its two years of confinement. As it is, the tail now measures
5 inches and a half, thus indicating that this member had added an inch to its
length in two years.
A careful consideration of this specimen seems to me to point in the direction
of M. lasiotis, more so than towards any other Eastern Asiatic monkey, but from its
youthful character and from the circumstance that the individual members of the
rhesus group of Macaques are all so very closely allied to each other and doubtless
have a strong common likeness in early youth, any decided opinion regarding the
true nature of M. scmcti-johanms is hardly warranted. These remarks are equally
applicable to the young female monkeys from the Island of Hainan, which have been
referred by Swinhoe and Sclater to Macacus rhesus. Blyth has suggested that these
Hainan monkeys may be M. lasiotis; but if M. tcheliensis is the female of the latter
and the species is distinguished by the tail equalling only one-fourth the length of
the body, these Hainan monkeys can hardly be regarded as the same species, as the
tail of the female in question equals one-half the length of the body. No males
of these Hainan monkeys are known.
Some years ago a male monkey was presented to the Zoological Gardens by
T. J . Eawcett, Esq., of the Hartlepool Hospital, as having come from China. I t was
regarded while alive in the Gardens as an example of M. samti-johmnis, Swinhoe,
and after its death it passed to the British Museum, under that name, which was
adopted by Hr. Gray as appertaining to it, and who appears to have regarded the
specimen as the type of the species, because in the appendix to his catalogue we find
him remarking, on the strength of this identification, th a t M. smcti-johcmnis is very
like M. cyclopis, and perhaps only a younger specimen—an observation which is inapplicable
to the type of M. smcti-johannis, so far at least as regards any resemblance
to M. cyclopis, as it has none. Mr. Eawcett’s monkey, however, has all the
characters of M. cyclopis, with the exception that the annulation of the hair is
less distinct than in that species; but this seems to be attributable to youth,
for in other respects the coloration is identical with M. cyclopis. The exact
locality from whence the specimen was obtained is unknown, and although I have
tried to trace it, I have failed to do so.
M a c a c u s c y c l o p i s , Swinhoe.
The Large Formosan Monkey, Swinhoe, Blyth, Journ. As. Soe. Beng. vol. xxix. (1860), p. 88.
Macacus cyclopis, Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1862, p. 358, pi. xiii. ; Sclater, ibid, 1871, p. 222 ;
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 710 ; Gray, Cat. Monkeys and Lemurs, B. M. 1870, p. 31 ; et Append,
p. 128 ; Murie, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872; pp. 771,. 780. figs. 0 and 2 a, 6, and a, b, and c (pelves),
£ and ? .