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Only feinales are available, but to judge froui their skins, they 

 hâve had approximately a length of head and body amounting to 

 about 60 cm., and their tails about 35 cm. This indicates a small 

 Baboon and the same is also proved bv the skuUs, the total length 

 of which in three spécimens (ail adult females) varies between 

 128.5 '^^'^ 132-5 mm. This species is thus much smaller than f. i. 

 P. tessfllatus in eastern Congo. If the the relation between the 

 sexes regarding the size of the skulls should be the same in this 

 Baboon as in P. tesscllatiis, a maie Baboon from Kinda wonld hâve 

 a skuU with a total length of about 165 mm. (or about the same as 

 an average female skuU of P. tessellatiis). Accordingly its skull 

 would be much smaller than that of Papio strepihis Elliot from 

 Nyassaland, which according to its author measures 195 mm. 



The following are the skull measurements of two female Baboons 

 from Kinda, western Katanga, or district de la Lulua : 



Total length of skull .... 

 Cond^ioincisive length . . 



Hensel 



Zygomatic width 



Breadth of braincase . . . 

 Least postorbital width 

 Least iuterorbital width 

 Length of palate inside incisors 

 Length of nasals mesially . . 

 Width of snout across fiist premolar 

 Length of upper molar séries . . 



» » molars only . . . 



» of lower molar séries . . . 

 Distance from orbit to enathion 



The last of the cranial measurements above proves that the 

 female of this Baboon bas a rather short snout, so that the distance 

 between orbit and gnathion is only about 41 % of the total length 

 of the skull, while in a female P. tessellatus the former measure- 

 ment is about 50 7o of the latter. 



