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N Ian Museum ~ECORDS of the N IAN MUSEUM '(A J ,ournal of I dian Zoolog,) Vol. 50, Part 2 June, 1952 Cat..... of Mammal, ia the Zoological Sarvey of 1Ddia. L Primates, Komiaoida. .B. KhtIJutia •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 129 Oa lome iatenstioglarval stages of ·ao Acaathocepb laD, 'Cent1'Ot'hyncAu8 oott'o­ e.hus ap. DOV. frOID the fro" Rana tigrina (Dauel) hom ladia. E. N. Dall •• 147 OIl ·a CoUectioD o'Bircls &om the Simlipal Bill., Mayurb ' aoj clittrid, Oris ... A. K. Mu'~he:rJee " • • •.. " · • • 157 'ClutifieatiOD, Zooreography ,ud EvolutiOD of the Fisll .. of tile Cypriaoid ,emilie. Bomalopteridae aDd Gattromyzoaidae. .E. G. ,Silas " • " • • • 173 0. a smaU Collection of Fish from Mauipur,AsIam. M. A. S. Menon ..• •• 285 Edited by the Director., Zoological Survey 0/ India PUBLISHED BY THE MANAGER OF PUBLICATIONS. DELHI., PIUNTED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA PR'ESS, CALCUTTA, INDIA, 1953. CATALOGUE OF MAMMALS IN THE ZOOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. I. PRIMATES : ·HOMINOiDEA. By H. KHAJUBIA, M.Sc_, Zoologioal Survey oj India, IndiQt& Museu'm, . Oaku"ta~ 1. G~NE1tAL INTltoDucrtoN. ~he .collection in the Zoological Survey of India comes from three sources. namely, Asiatic· Society, Indiah Museum., and Zoological Survey of India itself. Blyth in 1863 published a oatalo~e dealing with tho collection of the Asiatic Society; and later, after thIS collection had been ulade over to the Indian Museum, Anderson in 1881 and Sclater in 1891 pUblished first and second parts respectively of Catalogue of Mammals in the Indian Museum. Finally the whole collection was transferred to ~he. Zoological Survey of India on its creation in 1916. The desirability of the preparation of a revised catalogue has been keenly felt, as many changes have taken place in the oollection aince the publication of the last catalogue some sixty years. ago. In the first place, there have been notable additions to the colleotion during this period, the wealth of information on which· is not accessible except through occasional short reports pUblished by the departmentailltaff. Seoondly, the coll~c .. tiOD suffered a oOllsiderable loss and damage due. to a number of unavoid­ able calWes. In 1942~ the headquarters of the Zoological Survey of ~!1ia' was shifted from Caloutta to Banaras under war emergency and as a ~atural consequence of shifting some damage ~o the collection oooUlTed. TheIl: came the most llnfortunate tragedy, that is, the flood o~ the Varuna river at Banaras in September, 1943, when a major part oj the oo116c~ion was subme~g6d in water for a.bout three days t Many speoimens. were lost ;. and many, which were badly damage~, had finally t9 be rejeoted. In 1948-49, the headquarters was aga~ shifted from Banaras to Calcutta and again the colleotion was subjected to the effeots of transit. Under the circumstances, there was evidently a great Deed of ass88ling our possessions again; and, oonsequently, the present work was undertaken. In view of the rapid progress made by the soience of taxonomy since the publication of earlier edition, every specimen had to be thoroughly studied before the work oould be brought up-to-date. The numbers on the specimens have all been ohanged into Zoological Survey of India (Z. S. I.) Register Numbers. Since the collection has passed through many hands, the cheoking up of the. old' numbers was a colossal task. All the .distinguishing characters of the forms are not enumerated, and only important variations as noted in cOlllparison with typical characters have been recorded. All the measurenlents of the skulls are obtained afresh, as those by earlier workers, wherevor taken, are not properly defined. The measure­ ments of skins are only given when the)" have been noted on fresh n;mterial by the collectors. As the partioulars of locality and date of collection are wanting in many cases, they have been given, wherever available, in the salll(, column as the collector or donor. The date following a locality is the date of (129) 1 130 Records of tlte Indian Museu1n. [VOL. 60, collection and that following a oolleotor or donor is the date of presenta... tion and is given within braokets. Wherever possible, the last catalogue numbers have been given along with the corresponding Z. S. I. Reg. Nos. and those of the former whioh do not appear in this catalogue may be taken as missing. It Inay, however, be noted that, as the labels of a considerable number of specimens were lost or badly damaged during the Hood at Banaras, it has not been possible to asoertain in all oases whether a particular specimen given in the last catalogue is actually missing or present in the colleotion. I t has to be noted with great regret that earlier colleotors seem to have paid little attention to suoh important partioulars as the locality, the date of colleotion, Ineasurements and colouration of skins in fresh state, field notes, etc. As a consequenoe, I have failed to base, in several cases, any sound conclusions on the data at my disposal, especially with regard to the geographical significance of the variations. I am much indebted to Dr. S. L. Hora, Direotor, Zoological Survey of India and Dr. B. Biswas, Officer-in-Charge, Bird and Mammal Seotions for careful perusal of MS. B.nd many useful suggestions. 2. REMARKS ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF HOMINOIDEA. Sitnpson's (1945) great work on the olassifioation of mammals has been followed by me with regard to the arrangement of generia and super­ generic groups. Since the two groups Platyrrhini and Catarrhini are too ,veIl defined, I propose to retain them in infraordinal ranks under the suborder Anthropoidea (oontra SiInpson, op. oit., p. 184). Gibbons are retained in a separate family (Hylobatidae). For the use of the name Simia and consequently Simiida.e I need give no explanation (se6 Ch~sen, 19t10, p. 60) ; at least, I would like to retain these nalnes till Pongo gets more familiarized and there are suffioient grounds to believe that it will not die the way its predecessor did. For the olassification of various genera Elliot (1913), Pocock (1927), Kloss (1929), Schwarz (1934), Allen (1939), and Chasen (1940) have been followed. 3. THE CATALOGUE. Orde!' PRIMATES Suborder Ai.VTHROPOIDEA Infraorder CATARRHINI Superfamily HOMINOIDEA Family H YLOBATIDAE Bylobates hoolock (Harlan). 1834. Si'lnia Iwoloek Harlan, Trans. Amer. Philo8. Soc., IV, p. 52, pl. II (Garo Hills, Assam). Material.- 7457 cr Skin a.nd skull J. Anderson. 7537 ~ Skill (mounted ill the gallery) W. Rutledge (30.8.1897). 7t39 8 Skin and skull w. Rutledge. 1952.] H. KHAJURIA : Oatalogue of Mamtnals : Primates. 131 7040 Skin and skull • w. Rutledge• 7542 Do. Do. 7544: Do. • Do• 7545 Do. • W. Rutledge (31.8.1897) • 7546 Skin • Do• 7547 Do. • Do• 7548 Skin and skull Do. 7649 Skin Do. 7650 Do. • Zool. Gardens, Calcutta (7. '1. 1887). 7679 Do. • • .... 7754 Skin and skull • Zool. Gardens, Calcutta (5.5- 1901). 7831 Do. • • Do. (20.4.1903). 7832 Do. • • W. Rutledge (16.4-1903). 7833 Do. Do. (14-7.1903). 7834 ~ Skin • Do. 7878 S.-ad. ~ Do. • Do. (14.12.1898). 7913 Do. • Do. (7.1.1901). 7923 Skin and skull • Zool. Gardens, Calcutta. 10728 Skin • • Do. 10973 Young~ Skin (mounted in the gallery) Kalanaga, Barail range, Mani. pur, Feb., 1936. Z.S.I. Party. 11426 Skin and skull • • 5 miles' east of N ongpoh (3,500'), Khasi Hills, Assam, 28·5 .. 1949. H. L. Hiteshi (Z. S. I. Party). 11427 Do. • • 7 miles west of N ongpoh (4,000'), l{hasi Hills, Assam, 10·5·1949. H. L. Hitesru (Z. S. I. Party). 11428 Do. • • Manihar Basti, 8 miles north of Nongpoh (2,BOO'), Khasi Hills, Assam, 5 .. 6·1949. H. L. Hiteshi (Z. S. I. Party). 11429 Do. • N ongpoh, Khasi Hills, Asso,m, 15 .. 6-1949. H. L. Hiteshi (Z. S. I. Party). 11430 Young Do. • • Manihar Basti, 8 miles north of Nongpoh (2,500'), Khasi Hills, Assam, 5-6-1949. H. L. Hiteshi (Z. S. I. Party). 2 132 Records of the I nd'ian Museum. [VOL. 50, 11518 Skin Zool. Gardens, Caloutta (19-1- 1910). 11519 Do. Teng-yu-ohow, Yunnan. J. Anderson. 11520 Damaged skin with skull and Caohar, Assam (1867). Mus. bones of limbs Collector. 11521 S.-ad. ~ Skin and skull W. Rutledge (24-6-18501). 11522 S.-ad. ~ Do. Purchased (September, 1866). 11523 ~ Do. Zool. Gardens, Caloutta (11.5. 1909). 11524 S.-ad. ~ Damaged skin W. Rutledge. 11525 ~ Imperfect skin Hotha, West Yunnan (Kakh- (I.M.6w) yen Hills). W. Yunnan Expedition (1868). 11$26 1[oung ~ Damaged skin 11527 S.-ad. ~ Skin 11528 Young d' Skin and skull Purchased (29-5-1869). (I.M.6i) 11529 d' Do. Samaguting, N aga Hills, (I.M.6r) Assam. J. Butler (Octo. 1872). 11530 Skin Zool. Gardens, Caloutta (7.12. 1915). 11577 Skin and skull Do. (8-11-1950). 11578 Do. W. Rutledge (30-6-1871). (I.M.6p) (damaged) 11697 Skeleto~ (mo~ted in the gallery) 11733 Young Skull (I.M. 6U) 11741 Young ~ In spirit Cachar, Assam. C. Brownlow (5-7-1872). 11742 Skin and skull W. Rutledge (17-3-1877). 11743 Skin Zool. Gardens, Caloutta (1877). 11744. Skin and skull Tripura, East Bengal. W. (I.M.6y) Rutledge (J 8-8-1879). 11770 Mounted skeleton • Barraokpore men age r i e (I.M.61i) (1842). 11784 .. Skeleton (inoomplete) Zool. Gardens, Caloutta (11-3- 1909). 11799 Skeleton without skull Do. (8-10-1916). 1180U Skin and some bones Do. (19-5-1877). (I.M.6z) 11810 ~ Skin W. Rutledge (10-4.1880). [.M.6cc) 11974 1[oung~ Skull • Pllrohaged (12-6-1869) • 11975 Young Do. • • .... 1952.] H. KHAJURIA: Oatalogue qf Mammal : Primates. 133 MeaBurementB *0/ 8lcullB.-4 ~o-l, 108-114·6 (111·3); cb, 88·6·97·7 (92-1); ZW, 66·2 7S'8 (70·6); ow, 60.8-64°9 (63'4); mw,.
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