38 SILICEOUS CASTS OF ECHINITES 



The " Keo foo, remarkable for their steady gaze; '' and in 

 their description in a consecutive page it is stated, that " the 

 Keo are like a large Mehow, that their general colour is of a 

 blueish black, and that when they meet men, they are fond of 

 looking favourably upon them." In commentary upon the 

 Keu they are described as " located in the Keen ping hills, be- 

 ing about the size of a dog, and like a Mehow, having much 

 whisker and hair on the top of their head, which they are fond 

 of brushing, and that when they meet men they pick up stones 

 and throw at them." In the Dictionary of P. Basil the Keo 

 are described as a species of monkey like men, which ravish 

 women. In comment upon the Nao it is stated that " their 

 external appearance is like a luy, but smaller ; that they are 

 of a brownish black colour, can be domesticated, are more 

 agile than cats in catching mice, and that Kewshih says that 

 the Nao only come from the south, and are of the Mehow 

 baboon species." 



This finishes the monkeys in the works above cited. In 

 the Chinese Dictionary of P. Basil, published by De Guignes, 

 folio, Paris, 1807, the following apes are mentioned. 



The "Kea,' sort of ape like a man." The Tsoo. The 

 Hoosun, " animal like a monkey." The Nao, " sort of mon- 

 key fond of climbing up trees," (p. 408). The Yaou or Yew. 

 The How tsan, (p 408) 



Art. VIII. — On the Siliceous Casts of the Echinites /rom the Chalk. 

 By Edward Charlesworth, F.G.S., &c. 



Some curious facts have, at various times, fallen under my 

 notice, explanatory of the anomalous appearances often pre- 

 sented by the siliceous casts of the Echini from the chalk, 

 more especially the genera Ananchytes and Conulus ; and 

 bearing also upon the history of the occasional silicification 

 of the shell itself. Were it not for the costly nature of the 

 engravings necessary to illustrate the subject, I should have 

 been tempted ere this, in some shape or other, to have placed 

 my observations on record ; and, without losing sight of this 

 intention, I now only propose briefly to state some of the in- 

 ferences I have arrived at. In doing this, however, I by no 

 means would have it thought that I reserve to myself the ex- 

 clusive right of entering, on a future occasion, upon the details 



' Pronounced also Ko, same meaning as Keo ; Kang he tsze &c. 



