2i4 Lloyd's natural history. 



GENUS DOLICHOPITHECUS. 

 DoUchopithecus^ Deperet, Mem. Soc. Geol. Fr., Palaeont., i., p. 

 II (1890) ; Zittel, Handb. Palaeont, iv., p. 707 (1893). 



Allied to Semnopithecus^ but having the muzzle longer and 

 the limbs shorter and stouter. The genus has been based on 

 three crania, several teeth, and a number of the bones of the 

 skeleton, belonging to the species Dolichopithecus rusci- 

 NENSis, Deperet, from the Pliocene strata of Perpignan, in 

 France. {Zittel.) 



GENUS MESOPITHECUS. 



Mesopitheais, Wagner, Abh. K. Bayer, Ak. (i) iii., p. 154 ; vii., 

 abth., ii., p. 9; Zittel, Handb. Palaeont., iv., p. 706 (1893). 



This genus is based on a skull and teeth, which indicate an 

 alliance with Semnopithecus^ while the skeleton more resembles 

 that oi Macacus inuus (the Barbary Ape). The male had much 

 longer and more powerful canines than the female. Mesopi- 

 THECUS PENTELici, Wagner, the typical species, was founded 

 on a fragment originally brought by a soldier in 1838 from 

 Pikermi to Munich. Since then the whole skeleton has been re- 

 covered, and this is now one of the best-known species of the 

 fossil Anthropoidea. It lived in Pliocene times, apparently in 

 troops in the forests of the Pikermi plains, which at that date 

 extended far into what is now the Mediterranean Sea. Re- 

 mains of the same species have been discovered near Baltavar, 

 in Hungary. 



GENUS COLOBUS {suprh, p. 85). 

 In the Mid-Miocene forests of Europe this genus was repre- 

 sented by a species described by Professor Fraas as Colobus 

 GRAND^vus, from Steinheim, in Wiirtemburg. 



