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THE CAT. 



[chap. XII. 



A long known fossil form, Pseud^lurus* (of which several 

 species have been described), is from the upper mioceue of France 

 and North America. 



This animal had an additional lower premolar, so that there were 



^'Snat. size nat. size. 



Fig. 185. 

 A. Skull of //opfojj/toiieHS orcof?o)i<is Cope). B. Grinding sui-faces of right upper molar ami sectorial. 



^^JiJ nat. size: 



Fig. ISG.— Skvll of Nimramis braiJiyops (Cope), rnoM Oreoon 



three premolars and one sectorial molar in the lower jaw. The 

 lower sectorial has but a rudimentary heel. 



* Gcrvai.s, Paleontolof^ie FraiKjaise, 

 p. 232 ; see also Lcidy's Alaminals of 

 Ncliraska and Dakota in .Journal of 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia, vol. vii., p. 52, plate 1, fig. 8 ; 



ace also Filliol, in Annales des Sciences 

 Geologiques, vol. vii., p. 1.58. The Fclis 

 qiiadridcntata of Do Blainville belongs to 

 this genus. 



