340 PALEONTOLOGY. 



" These characters are sufficiently important and well- 

 marked to establish the specific distinction of the macacque, 

 to which the portion of jaw belongs, and are the more 

 valuable as corroborating the evidence already adduced in 

 proof that the fragment in question is a true fossil of the 

 stratum in which it was discovered. 



" Fossil remains of Quadrumana have been found, within 

 a recent period, in the tertiary formations of India, of the 

 South of France, and of the Brazils. 



FIG. 251. A is the same jaw, magnified two diameters. 



B is a view of the fossil looking down upon the grinding surface of the tooth, 



similarly magnified. It does not show distinctly the inner small cusp of 



the ' talon' or hinder tubercle, 

 c is a view of the fossil from the inner side, magnified two diameters. 



" The Indian remains, discovered by Messrs. Baker and 

 Durand, and those subsequently found by Messrs. Falconer 

 and Cautley, have been referred to a species of Semnopitliecus 

 as large as the Entellus, and consequently exceeding consi- 

 derably the present fossil in size. 



" The portions of fossil quadrumanous lower jaw discovered 

 by M. Lartet, in the South of France, indicate a species of 

 Hylolates, rather smaller than the Syndactylus, but nearly 

 allied to that species. 



" The South American extinct quadrumanes, discovered by 

 M. Lund, in the basin of the Rio des Velhas, it is interesting 

 to find, are referable to a form peculiar to the New World, 



