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the form and proportions of their skulls, and likewise in the 

 somewhat more specialised characters of their feet ; and it 

 therefore seems that they are not directly ancestral to existing 

 hyraxes, although they may stand in that position to the 

 Pliocene Pliohyrax of Samos, which may be derived from 

 Sagatheriiim. The supposed hyracoid affinities of Arsinoither- 

 ium are not admitted by Dr. Schlosser, who considers the 

 genus to be connected with the Amblypoda, and regards 

 relationship between hyraxes and proboscideans as limited 

 to a common descent from condylarthrous ancestors. 



Although the presence of bats in the Fayum fauna is 

 undoubted, Dr. Matthew has some hesitation in admitting 

 whether the same can be affirmed with regard to Insectivora, 

 for Metoldobotes is referred to the so-called Proglires, a group 

 whose affinities are doubtful. If, however, the Fayum genus be 

 really related to Olbodotes and Mixodedes of the basal Eocene of 

 the United States, it will be a point of some interest. 



Another important faunistic paper is a preliminary account 

 by Dr. G. E. Pilgrim, published in Rec. Geol. Survey India, vol. 

 xl. pp. 63-7, of new genera and species of mammals from 

 the Tertiary formations of India, especially those of the Bugti 

 Hills, in Baluchistan. In many instances, at any rate, the 

 diagnoses of the new genera and species are very short. The 

 new forms include three monkeys, one of which is referred to 

 the European Miocene Dryopithecus, as D. punjabicus, while 

 the second, also from the Siwaliks of the Punjab, is believed to 

 represent a new genus and species — for which the name Sivapi- 

 thecus indicus is proposed — allied to the gorilla ; the third, from 

 the same district, being a langur, Semnopithecus asnoti. The 

 Carnivora comprise two new species of Palhycena and an 

 Amphicyon. The artiodactyle ungulates include a new Trago- 

 ceros, several new genera and species of giraffe-like ruminants, 

 a new type of traguloid described as Dorcabime anthracotheroides, 

 which is believed to connect the modern Tragulidce with the 

 Anthracotheriidce, two new genera of the last-named family, and 

 a new species of Tetraconodon. Among the perissodactyles we 

 have two new species of AccratJiermm, the first recorded Indian 

 species of Cadiircotherium, species of Diceratherium and Telloceras, 

 and the new genus Phyllotillou for the species originally 

 described as Macrotherium naricum, together with a new species 

 of the equine genus Hippodactylus. Finally, it is suggested that 



