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FAUNA ANTIQUA SIVALENSIS. 



organization most nearly resembling that of man {Vide Plate 

 XXIV. figs. 1 and 2).' 



III. — On Additional Fossil Species op the Oeder Quad- 



RUMANA FROM THE SeWALIK HiLLS.^ 



BY H. 



AND CAPTAIN P. T. CAUTLEY. 



In the November number of the Journal, vol. v. p. 739, 

 Messrs. Baker and Durand have announced, in the discoverj- 

 of a quadrumanous animal, one of the most interesting results 

 that has followed on the researches into the fossil remains of 

 the Sewalik hills. The specimen which they have figured 

 and described comprises the right half of the uj)per jaw, with 

 the series of molars complete ; and they infer that it belonged 

 to a very large species. In the course of last rains we de- 

 tected in our collection an astragalus, which we referred to a 

 quadrumanous animal. The specimen is an entire bone, free 

 from any matrix and in a fine state of preservation from 

 having been partly mineralized with hydrate of iron. It cor- 

 responds exactly in size with the astragalus of the Semnopi- 

 thecus entellus or Langoor, and the details of form are so 

 much alike ia both, that measurement by the callipers was 

 required to ascertain the points of diiference. We have for- 

 warded the specimen with a notice to the Geological Society 

 of London, after keeping it some months in reserve, having 

 been difiident about resting the first amiouncement of fossil 

 Quadrumana on anything less decisive than the cranium or 

 teeth. 



This astragalus, in conjunction with Messrs. Baker and 

 Durand's specimen, satisfied us of the existence of at least 

 two distinct fossil Qimdrumana in the Sewalik hills. We 

 have lately become possessed of several fragments, more or 

 less perfect, belonging to the lower jaws of two species, both 

 smaller than Messrs. Baker and Durand's fossil. These we 

 shall now proceed to notice. 



The principal specimen is represented in Plate XXIV. 

 figs. 3 and 4. It consists of both sides of the lower jaw ; a 

 great portion of the right half is entire with the whole series 

 of molars ; the left half is broken off to the rear of the ante- 



■ The fossil described in this paper 

 is now in the British Museum, and from 

 it original drawings have been made by 

 Mr. Dinkel for this reprint. The draw- 

 ings accompanying the memoir, as it ap- 

 peared in the ' Journal of the Asiatic 

 Society,' were little more than rough out- 

 line sketches. The fossil is also figured 

 by Royle in his ' Illustrations of the 



Plate 



•n. 



Botany of the Himalayahs.' 

 fig. 2.-[Ed.] 



^ Eeprinted from the ' Joiu-nal of the 

 Asiatic Society ' for May 1837, vol. vi. 

 p. 354. The drawings accompanying 

 the original paper being merely rough 

 outline sketches, fresh drawings have 

 been made by Mr. Dinkel from the spe- 

 cimens intheBritish Museum.— [Ed.] 



