HOMINID. 3 
Suborder II. Dermoprera. Limbs enclosed in an expansion of the 
skin. Fingers and toes short, webbed, with opposable thumbs. 
Family 7, GALEOPITHECIDA. 
Suborder IV. Curmoprera. Limbs and the very greatly elongated 
Jingers of the hand enclosed in a skin. Thumb and great toe free. 
Family 8. Prrropipz. The grinders bluntly tubercular, the cutting- 
teeth crowded between the canines. Nostrils pierced in the 
nose. Eastern Hemisphere. 
Family 9. Puytiostomipm. The grinders acutely tubercular. Nos- 
trils pierced in a special disk ending behind in a more or less 
elevated leaf. Canines close ; intermaxillary developed, narrow ; 
the cutting-teeth crowded between the canines. Tail in inter- 
femoral membrane. Western Hemisphere. 
Family 10. Ruinotopuipm. The grinders acutely tubercular. 
ostrils pierced in a special disk cl is often complicated in 
‘front. Canines far apart; intermaxillary rudimentary or deficient; 
cutting-teeth small, deciduous. Eastern Hemisphere. 
Family 11. Nocririonripm. The grindersacutely tubercular. The 
nostrils simply pierced in the nose. Tail partly free, on upper 
surface or at the end of the truncated interfemoral membrane. 
Both Hemispheres. 
Family 12. Vespertiionip#. The grinders acutely tubercular. 
Nostrils simply pierced in the nose. Tail entirely enveloped 
and continued to the end of the conical interfemoral mem- 
brane. Both Hemispheres, 
Suborder I. BIMANA. 
Hand with an opposable thumh. The great toe on the same level as the 
other toes, 
Bimana, Cuvier. 
Fam. I. HOMINID.©. 
The feet flat, formed for walking, the great toe in the same 
line with the rest; not opposable. Nose prominent on the nearly 
erect face. Chin prominent. Pelvis wide. Walking erect. Having 
the power of communicating his knowledge and ideas by speech. 
HOMO. 
Homo, Linn. 
Homo sapiens. B.M. 
Homo sapiens, Linn. 
Hab. The Eastern and Western Hemispheres. 
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