melanous

But now that he's got the job, he has to perform or become the old token "black" of that era -- whose most important qualification was that he was sufficiently "melanous" -- if you know what I mean -- to fill corporate affirmative action guidelines.

Lowell Thompson: Barack Obama, The Token President? 2009

The change from the _xanthous_ to the _melanous_ complexion, is a circumstance of constant occurrence; there are few children born, whose complexion does not darken as they grow up, in many cases undergoing a total change: the passage from dark to fair is rare, but it constantly occurs that _xanthous_, or even _leucous_ children, are born of

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various

To the different characters of human complexion, Dr Prichard gives three distinctive terms -- the _melanous_ or brunette; the _xanthous_ or blonde; and the _leucous_ or albino; the _melanous_ predominating in the southern countries, the _xanthous_ in the northern.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various

South Sea Islands being very generally _melanous_.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various