[mod L. app. from the proper name Entellus: see Virg. Æn. V. 437–72.
The name was first proposed by Dufresne, Bulletin Soc. Philomath., 1797; but he does not explain the reason for his choice of it. Cf. other (past or present) specific names of Indian monkeys, Anchises, Priamus, Rhesus, Irus.]
An East Indian species of monkey of the genus Semnopithecus (S. entellus).
1843. Jrnl. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, XII. 169. It [the Semnopithecus Johnii] is more suspicious and wary than the Entellus.
1847. Carpenter, Zool., § 151. The Entellus abounds over almost every part of India.
