2i6 Lloyd's natural history. 



it, described as P. chantrei, Deperet, inhabited the woods 

 round Mont Ceindre. Remains of the same animals have 

 been obtained in the Brown-coal beds of Elgg, in Switzerland 

 and Goriach, in Steyermark. 



GENUS HYLOBATES isu/>r^, p. 148). 



True Gibbons, indistinguishable from those now living in 

 the island, have been found in the caves of Borneo. 



A finely preserved limb-bone, from the Eppelsheim beds of 

 the Pliocene age, has also been ascribed to a species of this 

 genus. 



GENUS DRYOPITHECUS. 



Dryopithecus^ Lartet, C. R., xliii., p. 221 (1856); id., Mem. Soc. 

 GeoL, Palseon., i., p. i, pi. i (1890); Gaudrey, C. R. Cx., 

 P- 373 (1890); Zittel, Handb. Palaeont., iv., p. 709 

 (1893). 

 This genus is based on remains from the Mid-Miocene of 

 St. Gaudens (Haute Garonne), which indicate the former exist- 

 ence of an Ape more Man-like than any other. In size it ap- 

 proached the dimensions of the Chimpanzee ; the incisors are 

 smaller — an elevated character — and shorter than those in the 

 Gorilla or the Chimpanzee. The canines are, as in the Gorilla, 

 thick, sharp behind, and taller than the cheek-teeth ; the anterior 

 pre-molar is large, as in the Gorilla, has one root, and a strong 

 cingulum on the inner side ; the posterior pre-molar is longer 

 than broad, is two-cusped, and has a flattened talon. The 

 molar teeth have two pairs of opposite cusps, and a fifth on the 

 hind border, which develops, on the hindmost tooth, into a 

 two-cusped talon. The line of union of the lower jaw is high, 



