232 Millet — A New Roe-Deer from. China. 



Skull and teeth. — Both skull and teeth appear to be more robust than 

 in C. bedfordi, but the material is insufficient to show whether this char- 

 acter is constant. As compared with a male C. bedfordi of same age and 

 a female slightly younger, the type of C. melanotis shows the following 

 peculiarities: lachrymal vacuities decidedly larger; lachrymal pit barely 

 indicated; mesopterygoid fossa extending forward as an acute angle to 

 level of lateral palatine emarginations. 



Measurements. — Type: head and body, 1110; hind foot, 350 (310); ear 

 from crown, 140; condylobasal length of skull, 186 (186);* zygomatic 

 breadth, 86.4 (80); least orbital breadth, 53.6 (51.4); breadth of brain- 

 case, 61.4 (57.6); depth of brainease at middle, 57.4 (53); nasal, 59.6 

 (61.6); greatest breadth of both nasals together, 19.8 (19); mandible, 

 156 (152); maxillary toothrow, 69 (67); mandibular toothrow, 77± 

 (73.6); crown of m 1 , 14.6 x 13.8 (14.0 x 12.8); crown of m 2 , 15.6 x 14.0 

 (14.6 x 13.2); crown of m 2 , 15.2 x 10.0 (14.0 x 9.0). 



Remarks. — Together with Capreolus bedfordi this animal differs from 

 C. capreolus in the conspicuously hypsodont character of the teeth. 

 Though this is shown by both molars and premolars it is most noticeable 

 in the latter. Height of inner border of crown of middle upper premolar 

 in type, 12.8 mm., diameter of crown in line of toothrow, 9.2. The same 

 measurements in a male C. bedfordi, 12.4 and 10. In a female C. capre- 

 olus from Bavaria they are 7.2 and 8.8, and in a male from Italy, 7.4 

 and 8.2. 



* Measurements in parenthesis are those of a male C. bedfordi of approximately the 

 same age. 



