1904.] 



ANTHROPOID APES. 



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Pseudanihropus fidiginosus Schauf'uss is the Loanga subspecies 

 of Gray's Troglodytes vellerostts, and will have to stand as Simia 



VELLEROSUS FULIGINOSUS (Schauf.). 



Simla pygmmus Schreber is not a synonym of T. leucopi'ymnus 

 Lesson, as Professor Matschie has placed it, but is a distinct sub- 

 species. 



Text-fig. 112. 



Head of Si mi a saf^/riis maruntjensis (Noack). (Prom life.) 



In the preceding pages I ha.ve endeavoured to compress into 

 concise limits all that could be ascertained of the natural divisions 

 and classification of the Afiican anthropoid apes in the light of 

 modern study and investigations. We now come to the Asiatic 

 anthropoids ; and if the Gorillas and Chimpanzees oflTer serious 

 difficulties to the student, the Asiatic Orangs present difficulties 

 ten times worse. I do not for a moment wish to assert that my 

 conclusions are even as closely correct as in the Gorillas and 



