Ij^g POST-PLEIOCENE FOSSILS. 



the crown. The enamel is strongly corrugated; and the specimen measures eleven-and-a- 

 half lines antero-posteriorly and eight lines at its widest part transversely. 



Plate XXIII. Fig. 3, Penultimate lower molar; vie7v of the triturating surface. 



" 4, Lateral view of same specimen, with restored fangs in outline. 



Locality. Ashley Ferry. Museum, College of Charleston. 



Genus, CANIS. — Linn. 



CANIS FAMILIAKIS. 

 Plate XXIV. Fig. 1. 



Teeth and bones of the domestic Dog are found mingled with the Post-Pleiocene fossils 

 on the shores of the Ashley river. 



Plate XXIV. Fig. 1, Anterior portion of the skull of the dog. The shaded teeth indi- 

 dicate the fossils from the Ashley beds. 



Museum, College of Charleston. 



MARSUPIALIA. 

 Genus, DIDELPHYS. — Linn. 



D I D E L P II Y S V I E G I N I A X A . 

 Plate XXIII. _Fig. 2. 



Didelphys Virginiana, Shaw, Gen. Zool. I, 1800. 



Didelphys Virginiana, Desmarest, Harlan, Audubon, and Bachman, etc. 



The fragment of a lower jaw, containing the last molar tooth, of an opossum, was 

 obtained from the Post-Pleiocene formation of Doctor's Swamp, John's Island, ten miles 

 south-west of Charleston. 



Plate XXIII. Fig. 2, Left lower maxillary of Opossum; the shaded portion indicates 

 the fossil fragment from Jolui's Island. 



Museum, College of Charleston. 



