THE ANNALS 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY, 



[FOURTH SERIES.] * 

 No. 57. SEPTEMBER 1872. 



XXIII. — Note on some Fossil Morikeys found in Italy ^ preceded 

 hy a Revieio of the Fossil Quadrumana in yeneral. By C. 

 J. FoESYTH Major, M.D.* 



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We shall commence this review of the fossil monkeys hitherto 

 described with the monkeys of the Eocene strata. 



As early as 1839 Messrs. Lyell and Owen indicated in the 

 London Clay of Kyson (in Suffolk) some mandibular teeth of 

 a quadrumanous animal which Prof. Owen at iirst named 

 Macacus eocmnusf and afterwards Eojnthecus. In 1862 the 

 same author in a short note| declared that the fossils in ques- 

 tion ought very probably to be referred to a species of Hyra- 

 cotheritim [H. cuniculus)^ a pachyderm of which only the teeth 

 of the upper jaw were previously known. In a collection of 

 fossils from the above-mentioned locality, Prof. Owen had met 

 with, on the one hand, a series of upper molars of the type 

 of Hyracotherium^ and on the other a series of lower molars 

 analogous to those previously described under the name of 

 Macacus eoccenics, and likewise resembling the mandibular 

 teeth of Pliolojjhus, a genus allied to Hyracotherium leporinum. 

 From this circumstance it becomes probable that the upper 

 and lower teeth may have belonged to one ^nd the same 

 species ; but as to the conclusion that all these remains origi- 

 nated from a pachyderm of the genus Hyracotherium^ this 



* Translated by W. S. Dallas, F.L.S., from the 'Atti deUa Societa 

 Italiana di Scienze Natural!,' vol. xv. pp. 79-95. 



t Annals of Nat. Hist. ser. 1. vol. iv. p. 189, Nov. 1830.. 



X " On the Hyi-acotherian character of the Lower Molars of the sup- 



Sosed Macacus from the Eocene Sand of Kyson, Suffolk," Ann. & Mao- 

 lat. Hist. ser. 3. vol. x. p. 240, 1862. "' 



Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 4. To/, x. 13 



