Family CERCOPITHECIDAE

Cercopithecus sp.

Experimental prey.—Cockroaches, East Africa (Carpenter, 1921, 1925): The monkey rarely tasted and usually ignored cockroaches offered to it. In one experiment the monkey had to be deprived of food before it would eat the cockroach.

Macaca mulatta (Zimmermann)

Synonymy.Macaca rhesus [Johnson, personal communication, 1957].

Experimental prey.Blattella germanica, France (Brumpt and Urbain, 1938, 1938a): The macaque was fed cockroaches infested with Prosthenorchis elegans and P. spirula.

Macaca sylvanus (Linnaeus)

Synonymy.Inuus sylvanus [Simpson, 1945].

Common name.—Macaque.