TRAGULID.7^. 295 



II. Genus DORC ATHERIUM. 



Dorcatherium, Kaui), Oss. Foss. Darmstadt, pt. 5, p. 92, 1836 

 bu Biltimeyer, Ahli. schtueiz. pal. Ges. vol. x, pt. 2, p. 72, 1883 



LydeMer, Cat. Foss. Mamm. Brit. Mas. pt. ii, p. 153, 1885 



Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1891, p. 885. 

 Hyemosclius, Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 1, vol. xvi, p. 350 



1845, Cat. Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 96, 1872. 

 Hyomoschus, Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 682 ; Flower and 



Garson, Cat. Osteol. Mus. B. Coll. Surg. pt. ii, p. 329, 1884, 

 HycEmoschus, Biitimeyer, Abh. schtueiz. 2)al. Ges. vol. x, pt. 2, p. 78, 



1883. 



Size larger than in Tragulus ; main metacarpals and 

 metatarsals separate, or the latter alone uniting partially or 

 wholly into a cannon-hone in old age ; feet shorter and 

 stouter with larger lateral toes ; skull relatively short, with 

 premaxilloe not reaching nasals ; dentition : i. §, c. \, p. 3^5, 

 m. I ; tail medium. 



Typified hy D. navi (Kaup, op. cit. 1836j from the Upper 

 Tertiary of Eppelsheim, Hesse-Darmstadt, which difi'ers from 

 the existing species hy the presence (at any rate in many 

 cases) of the first lower premolar. 



At the present day the genus is restricted to the equa- 

 torial forest-zone of Africa. 



DOECATHEEIUM AQUATICUM. 



Moschus aquaticus, Ogilhy, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1840, p. 35, 1841, p. 68; 

 Given, Anat. Vertebrates, vol. ii, p. 487, 1866. 



Hyemosclius aquaticus. Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 1, vol. xvi, 

 p. 350, 1845, Kno'wsley Menagerie, p. 42, pi. xxxi, 1850, Cat. 

 Ungulala Brit. Mus. p. 248, 1852, Cat. Buminants Brit. Mas. 

 p. 99, 1872, Hand-List Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 169, 1873; 

 Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 269, 1862 ; Milne- 

 Edwards, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. ser. 5, vol. ii, p. 133, 1864. 



Hyomoschus aquaticus, Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 682 ; 

 Floivcr and Garson, Cat. Osteol. Mus. B. Coll. Surg. pt. ii, p. 329, 

 1884 ; JentinTt, Notes Leydeyi Mus. vol. x, p. 26, 1887 ; Pousargues, 

 Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. ser. 7, vol. iv, p. 87, 1897. 



Hyoemoschus aquaticus, Biitimeyer, Abh. sclnveiz. j5«Z. Ges. vol. x, 

 pt. 2, p. 78, 1883. 



Dorcatherium aquaticum, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1891, p. 385 ; 

 Floivcr and Lydelher, Study of Mammals, p. 306, 1891 ; Lydeklcer, 

 Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 515, 1899, Game Animals 

 of Africa, p. 386, 1908. 



