HRDLifKA] SKELETAL EEMAINS OF EARLY MAN 381 



Measurements of the Monte Hermoso femur and of the femora of some modern Carnivora 



Length, bicondylar, about 



Length, bicondylar, to tip of minor 



trochanter, about 



Diameters of shaft at middle: 



Maximum , 



Minimum 



Circumference at middle 



Diameters of sulitrochanteric flatten- 

 ing: 



Maximum 



Minimum 



Platymeric index 



Diameter of lower end of shaft just 

 above gastrocnemius attachments: 



Breadth, maximum 



Thickness, minimum 



Index 



Diameter lateral of lower extremity,' 

 maximum 



Diameter antero-posterior of lower 

 extremity ,2 maximum 



Breadth-depth index of lower ex- 

 tremity 



Diameter antero-posterior of inner 

 condyle, maximum 



Diameter antero-posterior of outer 

 condyle, maximum 



Percental relatioa of length of inner 

 to that of outer condyle 



Distance of nutritive foramen from 

 lowest position on outer condyle 



Tetra- 



pro- 



thomo 



cm. 

 17.7 



14.7 



1.8.5 

 1.45 

 5.35 



2.1 

 1.55 



73. S 



3.1 

 2.25 



72.6 



3.80 

 3.80 



100.0 

 3.8 

 3.4 



111.8 

 8.9 



Young 



Boliv- 

 ian 



bear,' 

 left 



femur 



1.45 

 1.3 



1.85 



1.3 



70.3 



2.1 

 1.8 



116.7 

 8.5 



Jaguars (2), 



adult, left 



femur 



24.5 



2.25 

 1.85 



2.85 

 2.05 

 71.9 



4.9 

 4.75 

 96.9 

 4.85 

 4.7 

 103.2 



cm. 

 23.9 



19.8 



2.45 

 1.9 

 6.9 



2.9 

 2.05 

 70.7 



4.1 

 3.0 



5.0 



4.80 



96.0 



4.8 



4.9 



97.9 



Pumas (2), 



adult, left 



femur 



2.3 

 2.0 



2.75 

 2.0 



72.7 



5.4 



5.6 



103. 7 



5.2 



5.15 



101.0 



cm. 

 24.7 



1.8 

 1.75 

 4.55 



2.2 

 1.85 

 81.1 



3.1 

 2.2 

 71.0 



4.3 



4.2 



97.7 



4.3 



4.25 



101.2 



Ocelot 



cm. 



16.8 



1.45 

 1.15 

 4.2 



1.75 

 1.2 



68.6 



2.2 



1.8 

 81.8 



3.15 



3.0 



95.2 



3.0 



3.0 



100.0 



8.3 



Hyena 



striata 



cm. 

 20. c 



1.9 

 1.5 

 5.5 



2.3 



1.6 



69.6 



3.3 

 2.35 



71.2 



4.05 

 4.1 



101.2 

 4.15 

 4.05 



102.6 



1 Rod of compass lying on both borders of trochlea. 



' Anterior branch of compass lying on both borders of trochlea. 



8 Epiphyses detached, adolescent. 



