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bone, and there is usually a coronoid process. The occipital 

 condyles are either tripartite or double. In the shoulder-girdle 

 the scapula and coracoid are distinctly separate. Except in the 

 marine turtles, the phalangeal formula is 2 . 3 . 3 . 3 . 3, when the 

 feet are fully developed. The group is an ancient one, attaining 

 marked development in the Permian and Trias. 



Although anthropology does not generally come within the 

 scope of this series of reviews, it may be well to mention that 

 Homo heidelbergensisy Schoet, has been referred by Mr. G. 

 Bonarelli, in Riv. ital. Paleont, vol. xv. p. 26, 1909, to a new 

 genus, under the name of Paleoanthropus. 



Reference has been made already to the discovery of remains 

 of Primates in the Siwaliks and the Fayum Oligocene. 



To the Anales del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires, ser. 3, 

 vol. xiii. p. 317, Dr. F. Ameghino has contributed a note on 

 certain teeth from a cavern in Cuba, which are referred to 

 a large monkey. The dental formula is identical with that 

 of the Cehidce, but the cheek-teeth are stated to approximate 

 to those of Old World monkeys and man. For this monkey 

 the new generic and specific name of Montaneia antropomorpha 

 is proposed. It is noteworthy that no wild monkeys are found 

 in Cuba at the present day. 



The systematic position and dentition of Microchoerus eri- 

 naceus, from the Hordwell Eocene, are discussed in the Annals 

 and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 8, vol. vi. pp. 39-43, by 

 Mr. C. Forster Cooper, who comes to the conclusion that the 

 genus probably represents a lemuroid, whose nearest affinities 

 are with Necrolemur of the French Oligocene. 



In the first part of a paper published in the Bull. Amer. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., vol. xxviii. pp. 33-42, Dr. Matthew describes a skull 

 of the insectivorous genus Apternodus from the Lower Oligocene 

 of Wyoming. Together with the contemporaneous North 

 American Xenotherium and the South American Necrolestes, the 

 genus is referred to the so-called zalambdodont insectivores, 

 represented at the present day by the Malagasy Centetidce, the 

 African Potamogalidce and Chrysochloridce, and the West Indian 

 Solenodontidce. Among the tenrecs {Centetidce), Apternodus 

 shows marked resemblance in dental characters to Ericulus, 

 but differs from that and the other genera of the family in 

 the extraordinary features of the mastoid region of the skull. 

 The author regards Apternodus as representing a special sub- 



