2. LOXODONTA. 



359' 



Elephas indicus zeylanicus, Ulainv. Osteof/r. t. 1, 23. 



Elephas iudicus beugaleusis, BUtinv. Osteogr. t. 7. 



Var. ? Elephas sumatramis, Temm. Coup cTceil (B.M.) ; P. Z. S. 1849, 



Hah. India; Ceylon (?) ; Sumatra (B.il.). <^^ (^U-^a- M'i^'^ ^^ 

 The skeleton of the SumatranElephant, which the British Museum <^»<y j 



received from the Leyden Museum, has not the difFereuces in the 

 number of vertebroj from the Indian one that Temminck gives as 

 characteristic of the Sumatran species. 



Foetus in the British Museum.— (?ra?/, P. Z.fi. 1868, p. 491, f. 1. 



Fig. 41. 



I 



Foetus of Indian Elephant of the natural size. 



2. LOXODONTA. 



Lamina of the teeth with lozenge-shaped crovm. Skull subglo- 

 bular, forehead shelving, crovm rounded ; front of lower jaw acute, 

 produced. Trunk conical, thick at the base. Ears very large. 



Loxodouta, F. Cuvier, Dents Mamm. 



Loxodonta africana. (African Elephant.) 



B.M. 



Loxodonta africana, Gray, List Mainm. B. M. 1843 ; Gerrard, Cat. 



Bones B. M. 

 Elephas africanus, Blmnenb. Alhild. t. 19. f. c ; Kirk, P. Z. S. 1864, 



p. 654; Giebel, Siiuc/eth. p. 159; Blainv. Osteogr. Gravigi-ades, t. 3 



(skull), t. 7 & 1) (teeth). 

 Elephas maximus (part. ), Linn. 



Huh. South Africa, Cape of Good Hope; West^Vfrica; East Africa, 

 Mossambique. 



See E. insiijmis and£'. planklens, Falconer, Palaeont. Mem. i. t. 4; 

 E. ganesa, Falconer, Palteont. Mem. i. t. 6. f. 1. 



Professor Owen thinks that the depth of the cleft between the 

 laminne of the teeth of some of the Asiatic fossil Elephants may- 

 form a passage to the Mastodons (see Palceont. p. 356). 



This suborder is particularly rich in fossil genera. The family 

 of Mastodonlidcp, with their tubercular grinders and elongated cylin- 

 drical tusks in the lower jaw, contains the genera Mastodon (Cuvier), 



