PONGO 181 
FAMILY *“PONGIID/E. 
GENUS I. PONGO. OURANG-UTAN. 
2—2 1—1 2—2 3—3 
I. o33 C. as Peas M. 539 =32. 
PONGO Lacépéde, Tabl. Mamm., 1799, p. 4. Type Pongo borneo 
Lacépéede = Simia pygmeus Hoppius. 
Pithecus G. Cuv., Tabl. Element. Hist. Nat. Anim., 1798, p. 95; 
Id. Legons Anat. Comp., 1800, tab. I, (nec Geoff. and Cuvier, 
1795). 
Lophotus Fisch., Zoogn., II, 1813, pp. IX, 547. 
Faunus Oken, Lehb. Naturg., 3ter Theil. Zool., 2te Abth., 1816, 
pp. XI, 1227, (nec Montfort, 1810, Mollusca). 
Macrobates Bilb., Syn. Faun. Scandin., I, Mamm., 1828, Con- 
spectus A. 
Body heavy, stout; neck short, thick; face naked; lips broad, 
mobile, protrusive; arms very long, hands reaching to ankles when 
animal is erect; hands long, narrow; thumb short; fingers united by 
web; legs short, bowed; foot long, narrow, great toe short; cheek 
callosities sometimes present in adult male; tail absent. 
Skull: high, pointed; supraorbital ridges prominent; cranial 
ridges present; canines tush-like; upper molars have four cusps, the 
lower molars five. 
Satyrus “Linn.,” has been included by Palmer in his “Index 
Generum Mammalium” on the authority of Sherborn. Linnzus, how- 
ever, was not the Author of Satyrus but Hoppius in the Amcenitatis 
Academice p. 69, and it was not employed by him as a genus, but as 
a specific name, for the second species of Simia, the first being his S. 
PYGMZ£uUS founded on Edwards’ plate. Hon. Walter Rothschild in his 
paper, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1904, p. 421, gives Satyrus Less., 1799? 
as co-equal with Ponco Lacépéde, 1799. There must be an error here 
as Sherborn does not give Satyrus Less., at all, and Palmer gives 
*The type of Simia being the “Barbary Ape,” a baboon, Simiide cannot be 
employed as a Family name for the Great Apes, and Pongo, being the oldest 
generic name proposed for these animals must be taken for the Family name, and 
Ponciip# will therefore be the correct term. 
