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Show 1 9 0 4 .] ON ANTHROPOID APES. 4 1 3 antenna? rat her short and robust, black, the lowei tin 00 joints fulvous, the second and third [joints small, equal, the terminal six joints rather strongly widened, but longer than broad; thorax scarcely twice as broad as long, the sides nearly straight, obliquely angulate before the middle, very narrowly margined, basal margin oblique at the sides, rather strongly produced towards the scutellum, preceded by a shallow transverse sulcus which is bounded at the sides by a deep perpendicular groove, the surface rather convex, somewhat closely and strongly punctured; elytra with a shallow depression below the base, the shoulders rather prominent and smooth, the surface strongly and regularly punctate-striate, the interstices impunctate and flat; under side and legs black, base of tibia? and the tarsi more or less fulvous, prosternum narrowly elongate; with a longitudinal shallow sulcus. flab. Santa Catarina, Brazil. The short, ovate shape of this species, short and rather robust antenna?, and the produced basal margin of the thorax at the middle agree best with the species at present placed in Hippuri-phila instead of Crepidodera proper ; four specimens are contained in my collection. 3. Notes 011 Anthropoid Apes. By the Hon. W a l t e r R o t h s c h i l d , Ph.D., F.Z.S. [Received December 13,1904.] (PlateXXIY * and Text-figures 99-117.) Although, from the earliest times, beginning with Hanno's <Torillce, we find the writings of observers of nature filled with accounts of hairy wild men, and, in later days, many descriptions by zoologists of anthropoid apes, it was only after the appearance of Du Chaillu's book that universal attention was turned to these creatures. Prior to 1870, several so-called species both of Gorilla. Anthro-popithecus, and Simla auct. had been established, but until lately the majority of zoologists maintained that there was only one rather variable species each of Gorilla, Chimpanzee, and Orang- Outan. Professor Matscliie's articles on the genus Gorilla (Sitzungsb. Ges. naturf. Freunde, 1903, pp. 253-259, and 1904, pp. 45-53) and his articles on the species and races of Chimpanzee (Sitzungsb. Ges. naturf. Fr. 1900, pp. 77-85, and 1904, pp. 55-69) have, however, once more aroused the greatest interest in the question of the true status of our knowledge of the anthropoid apes. In the first place, Professor Matschie insists, and, I believe rightly, that the Gibbons (Hylobates) should form a separate * For explanation of the Plate, see p. 440. |