Q SIMIADJE. 



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

 ing suberect. Tail none. 



Tribe I. SIMIINA. 



Body and limbs stout. Toes and fingers abort. Buttocks hairy. 

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

 broad. Tbo faco-boncs aro greatly produced in length as the animal 

 advances towards adult ago. Lips dilatable, very mobile. 

 Simia anthropomorpha, Dahlbum. 



1. MIMETES. 



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

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

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

 Face moderate. Africa. 



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

 Vigors. Troglodytes, Geoff. ; not Swainson. Anthropopithecus, 

 Bluinv. Le Ckimpanse, Cuvier. 



Mimetes troglodytes. The 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, Buffon, II. N. xi. t. 1. Pongo, 

 Jiuffon, Supp. vii. Troglodytes niger, Geoff'. T. leueopryninus, Less. 

 111. Zool. t. 12. Satyrusliigaros, Meyen, Wiegm. Arch. 185G, p. 282. 

 T. calvus, Du Chaillu ! * T. tschego, Duvernoy, Arch, du Mas. 

 viii. v. t. 1, 8, 4, 0. Simia Pan, Donovan, Nat. llepos. t. 



Hab. West Africa. 



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

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

 more hairy. Female head and faco larger, flesh-coloured. They may 

 be from different localities. 



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



a. Troglodytes calvus, Du Chaillu, Proc. Boston Soc. N. H. vii. 

 p. 290, 1861 ! Trav. t. 32,48, 63; 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 middle of tbo ears ; behind scalp black, smooth, and shin- 

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

 somewhat sunken ; nose fiat ; sides of the face hairy from the ears, 

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



*Whero tho mark of admiration is placed after a reference, it shows that the 

 specimen described by that author is in the British Museum. 



