PON GO 181 • 



FAMILY -PONGIID/E. 

 GENUS I. PONGO. OURANG-UTAN. 



T ?=?. C — • P — • M — =^2 

 '■• 2 2» *-" 1—1' '■• 2— 2> "^' 3— S •* 



PONGO Lacepede, Tabl. Mamm., 1799, p. 4. Type Pongo Borneo 

 Lacepede = Simla pygniwus Hoppius. 



Pithecus G. Cuv., Tabl. Element. Hist. Nat. Anim., 1798, p. 95 ; 

 Id. Lecons Anat. Comp., 1800, tab. I, (nee Geoff, and Cuvier, 

 1795). 



Lophotus Fisch., Zoogn., II, 1813, pp. IX, 547. 



Faumis Oken, Lehb. Naturg., 3ter Theil. Zool., 2te Abth., 1816, 

 pp. XI, 1227, (nee Montfort, 1810, Mollusca). 



Macrobates Bilb., Syn. Faun. Scandin., I, Mamm., 1828, Con- 

 spectus A. 



Body heavy, stout ; neck short, thick ; face naked ; lips broad, 

 mobile, protrusive ; arms very long, hands reaching to ankles when 

 animal is erect ; hands long, narrow ; thumb short ; fingers united by 

 web ; legs short, bowed : foot long, narrow, great toe short ; cheek 

 callosities sometimes present in adult male ; tail absent. 



Skull : high, pointed ; supraorbital ridges prominent : cranial 

 ridges present ; canines tush-like ; upper molars have four cusps, the 

 lower molars five. 



Satyrus "Linn.," has been included by Palmer in his "Index 

 Generum Mammalium" on the authority of Sherborn. Linnaeus, how- 

 ever, was not the Author of Satyrus but Hoppius in the Amcenitatis 

 Academicae p. 69, and it was not employed by him as a genus, but as 

 a specific name, for the second species of Simia, the first being his 5. 

 PYGM-Eus founded on Edwards' plate. Hon. Walter Rothschild in his 

 paper, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1904, p. 421, gives Satyrus Less., 1799? 

 as co-equal with Poxgo Lacepede, 1799. There must be an error here 

 as Sherborn does not give Satyrus Less., at all, and Palmer gives 



*The type of Simia being the "Barbary Ape," a baboon, Simiidse cannot be 

 employed as a Family name for the Great Apes, and Pongo, being the oldest 

 generic name proposed for these animals must be taken for the Family name, and 

 PoNGiiD.E will therefore be the correct term. 



