Section A. Anthkopoid. The arms much longer than the legs. Walk- 

 ing suherect. Tail none. 



Tribe I. SIMIINA. 



Body and limbs stout. Toes aud fingers short. Buttocks hairy. 

 Fur bristly. Bones of ilium rather concave. Chest and pelvis 

 broad. The fece-bones are greatly produced in length as the animal 

 advances towards adult age. Lips dilatable, veiy mobile. 

 Simla anthropomorpha, Dahlbom. 



1. MIMETES. 



The arms reaching to the knees. Fingers and toes short, strong. 

 Claws flat. Feet wide. Ears very large. Buttocks of young hairy, 

 of adults rather bare and callous. Skull large ; brain-case large. 

 Face moderate. Africa. 



Mimetes, Leach, Journ. de Phys. 1819; Ann. Phil. 1820, p. 104 ; not 

 Vif/ors. Troglodytes, Geoff. ; not Sivainsm. Anthropopithecus, 

 Blainv. Le Cbimpause, Cuvier. 



Mimetes troglodytes. Tlie Chimpanzee. B. M. 



Fur black, rather harsh. Face and hands nearly naked, wrinkled, 

 blackish. Lips and chin with short, white, scattered hairs. Bump 

 of young sometimes white. 



Simia troglodytes, Gmelin. Jocko, Buffun, H. N. xi. t. 1. Pongo, 

 Biffon, Supp. vii. Troglodytes niger, Geof. T. leucoprymnus, Less. 

 lU.Zool.t. 12. Satyrus lagaros, 3%e«, I'Viegm. Arch. 18-56, p. 282. 

 T. cahiis, Du Chaillu ! * T. tseliego, Duvernoy, Arch, (lit IIus. 

 viii. V. t. 1,3,4,0. Simla Pan, Donovan, Nat. Eepos. t. 



Hah. "West Africa. 



The male and female in the Zoological Gardens differed in the size 

 of the head and colour of the face. Male head small, face blacker, 

 more hairy. Female head aud face larger, flesh-colom-ed. They may 

 be from different localities. 



Homo troglodytes, Linn., is from a fabulous account and figure. 



a. Troqlodytes calms, Du ChaUlu, Proc. Boston Soc. IST. H. vii. 

 p. 29G, 1861 ! Trav. t. 32,48, 03; P. Z. S. 1861, p. 273. B.M. 



"Front of body with the blackest hair; neck, arms, and upper two- 

 thirds of the back with long black hair ; lower third of back and 

 legs light-brownish grey ; hands and feet black. Head bald to the 

 level of the midcUe of the cars ; behind scalp black, smooth, and shin- 

 ing ; eyebrows thin, bristly, long, and black ; face black ; eyes 

 somewhat sunken ; nose flat ; sides of the face hairj' from the ears, 

 the hair very short ; scarcely bearded under the chin, mixed with a 



* Where the mark of adiniration is placed after a reference, it shows that the 

 specimen described by that author is in the British Museum. 



