368 Savage a?id Wyman 



^' This specimen had evidently arrived at maturity, though 

 not materially differing in size from the preceding. All its 

 teeth were fully developed, canines very prominent, and 

 strongly falciform, in this respect resembling an animal of 

 carnivorous habits. The superciliary ridges strongly pro- 

 jecting, leaving a deep and broad fossa at their base supe- 

 riorly, about one third the distance from the outer angle. 

 These fossae exist in all specimens, but their depth and size, 

 are strong indications of the age of the individual. 



" No. IV. Female. Teeth. Incisors |, canines |, molars 

 i5 ; total, 32. The incisors were reduced, apparently to one 

 half the natural length by long use, showing extreme old age. 

 The skin of the face was very much shrivelled, of a darker 

 hue than that of either of the preceding, and mottled with 

 irregular dark purple spots. The breasts were flabby and 

 slightly protuberant, the nipples measuring one inch in length. 

 When shot she had two young ones, a male and female ; the 

 former was captured, and in my possession. Milk could be 

 forced in drops from the breasts. The anterior angle of the 

 vulva was situated at the distance of five and a quarter inches 

 from the symphysis pubis, and in common with the anus 

 surrounded by thick and very protuberent folds of yellowish 

 skin, covered with hair. In the sitting posture the vulva was 

 entirely concealed. This enlargement of the skin forms an 

 elastic cushion, having a depth of more than three inches, 

 forming in the female a substitute for nates, which are almost 

 entirely wanting. The skin of the body generally, was of a 

 thinner and softer texture than that of the other specimens. 

 There is no great difference between the texture of the skin of 

 males and females, that of the former being comparatively 

 very thick and tough. 



'' In every specimen, the insertion of the great toe or thumb 

 of the posterior hand, differed materially from the representa- 

 tion in all the figures which I have seen, being situated much 

 more anteriorly. In Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library, 

 it is placed much too near the heel. I have found it much 

 more anteriorly, certainly two thirds the length of the foot 



