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Show 1904.] ANTHROPOID APES. 431 Pseudanthropus fuliginosus Schaufuss is the Loanga subspecies of Gray's Troglodytes vellerosus, and will have to stand as S im ia v e l l e r o s u s f u l ig in o s u s (Schauf.). Simia pygmceus Schreber is not a synonym of T. leucoprymnus Lesson, as Professor Matschie has placed it, but is a distinct subspecies. Text-fig. 112. Head of Simia satyrus marungensis (Noaclc). (From life.) In the preceding pages I have endeavoured to compress into concise limits all that could be ascertained of the natural divisions and classification of the African anthropoid apes in the light of modern study and investigations. We now come to the Asiatic anthropoids; and if the Gorillas and Chimpanzees offer 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 |
