142 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 58. 



Sweden, which had a length of about 5 feet 4 inches from tip of 

 nose to tip of taiL In this skeleton the radius is 224 mm. long; the 

 fossil radius is 234 mm. long. It is, moreover, a broader bone rela- 

 tively to the length. The distal end is 40 mm. wide. The bone is well 

 fossilized. 



In the collection there is an upper right canine tooth (Cat. No. 

 9252) which w^as found in the cave not far from the radius above 

 described. This tooth (pi. 5, figs. 3, 4) has the same fore-and-aft 

 diameter at the base (13 mm.) as has the corresponding tooth of a 

 specimen of Aenocyon dims from Eancho LaBrea, near Los Angeles, 

 California. It is, however, not so thick (9 mm.) as that last-men- 

 tioned tooth (10 mm.). The cingulum is strongly developed, espe- 

 cially on the inner side. The root is broad. 



It is possible that this tooth and the radius belong to Sellards' 

 Aenocyon ayersi, found in Florida. 



Family FELIDAE. 



DINOBASTIS SERUS, Cope. 



Plate 5, figs. 1-2. 



The writer has recently recognized the presence of this species in 

 the cave near Bulverde ^ from one of the canine teeth, the property 

 of the San Antonio, Texas, Scientific Society. In the collection made 

 by Mr. Schuchardt there are some remains of a large catlike animal 

 which are referred provisionally to Dinohastis sems. These parts 

 consist of a lumbar vertebra, probably the fourth, a nearly complete 

 left femur, a considerable part of the right femur, the upper end of 

 a third femur, a right tibia, a left cuboid, a left second metacarpal, 

 two second phalangeals, and one ungual phalangeal. To these parts 

 have been given the catalogue number 9251 except to the fragment 

 of the upjoer end and of a femur. This is differently fossilized and 

 doubtless belonged to another individual. It has the number 9252. 

 The body of the lumbar vertebra is 40 mm. long, 46 mm. wide, and 

 30 mm. high at the hinder end. The fourth lumbar of a lion is 44 

 mm. long, 42 mm. wide, and 30 mm. high. 



Tlie femur is compared with that of a lion. This in the lion has 

 a length of 315 mm., measured from the upper surface of the head 

 to the lower border of the internal condyle ; in the fossil, a length of 

 303 null. The shaft, at the middle of the length, is of somewhat 

 greater diameter than in the lion, being from inside to outside, 30 

 mm. The widths of the two bones from the internal to the external 

 tuberosities is nearly the same; but the anteroposterior diameters of 

 the condyles are very different. In the lion that of the external con- 



1 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 56, p. 107, pi. 28, fig. 4. 



