82 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA, 
horse* from the Paleontological side. I can safely regard that 
the Wellawatta horse [? molar] belongs to a certain horse not 
yet palzontologically nae Pheust there is a possibility that 
it belongs to Equus onager.” 
In his summing up Matsumoto favours a correlation with 
Lydekker’s unnamed species from the Karnul cave—a species 
which may, or may not, be closely allied to LH. onager. He 
calls attention to the strong resemblance of a grinding tooth 
of the Karnul horse to the Wellawatta molar, and adds: “‘ On 
the other hand, it may easily be expected that some members 
of the Karnul fauna haunted also in Ceylon. Thus, it is 
highly probable from the morphological and zoogeographical 
points of view that the Wellawatta and Karnul horses are 
co-specific. Thus, the specific name ZL. zeylanicus, Wayland, 
may be applicable to both horses, at least for the present, and 
until the supposed alliance of them with HL. onager be actually 
proved. The following is a statement by Lydekker with 
regard to the antiquity of the Karnul remains :— 
“The comparatively large number of species either totally 
extinct, or which are not now found living in India, renders it 
probable that the age of a considerable part of the Karnul cave 
deposits is not newer than the Pleistocene ; and the fauna, 
as being almost certainly more recent than the Narbada beds, 
may be provisionally assigned to the latter part of that period.” 
Such an age corresponds well enough with the geological 
position of the Wellawatta teeth. 
The following bibliography of the fossil horses of India is 
supplied by Matsumoto :— 
(1) Hquus sivalensis, Falconer and Cantley. 
Falconer and Cantley : Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis, Pt. [X., 
1849, Pls. LXXXI-LXXXYV.; Falconer: Palzontological 
Memoirs (edited by Charles Murchison), Pt. I., 1868, pp. 
186 and 524; Lydekker: Palzontologia Indica, Ser. 10, 
Vol. II., Pt. 3, 1882, p._87 (21); Lydekker: Brit. Mus., 
cat. Foss. Mam., Pt. IIT., 1886, p. 66; Lydekker: Rec. Geol. 
Surv. India, Vol. XXIV., 1891,p.211 ; Schlosser : Abhandl. k. 
bayer. Akad. Wiss., II. Class, Bd. X XII., Abth. I., 1903, p. 86. 
* From my drawings of the teeth ; that is, Mr. Matsumoto has not 
had the advantage of handling the actual specimens. 


