pithecoids

Regarding the tails of the pithecoids we must give their distinctive properties by and by animal

The History of Animals 2002

Now, we gather from the Secret Doctrine [19] that the descendants of these semi-human monsters described above as originating in the sin of the "mindless," having through long centuries dwindled in size and become more densely physical, culminated in a race of Apes at the time of the Miocene period, from which in their turn are descended the pithecoids of to-day.

The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria W. Scott-Elliot