182 FELID&. 
the affinities of the fossils in question, may be most conve- 
niently applied. 
Fig. 10. The right external incisive tooth 
(fig. 70) strongly indicates, by the 
serration of the anterior and posterior 
margins of the crown, that it be- 
longed to the same species as_ the 
falciform canines, and closely con- 
forms in other respects with the ex- 
ternal incisors of the existing Feline 
animals. Assuming it to belong to 
the Machairodus latidens, it proves 
this species to have relatively larger 
external incisors than any of the 
Incisor of Machairodus, existing Felines, or than the Mach. 
nat, size. Kent's Hole. gaegantercon. The obtuse consolidated 
fang, thickly coated by cement, which this incisor, like the 
canine, possesses, proves both kinds of teeth to have be- 
longed to an aged animal. 
Hitherto, no parts of the skeleton have been found in 
England so associated with the characteristic teeth of the 
Machairodus as to throw any additional light on the or- 
ganization of this once formidable beast of prey. A com- 
parison of fig. 69 with fig. 67 will shew that the Machai- 
rodus latidens must have equalled, or nearly equalled, in 
bulk the speleean Tiger ; and we can scarcely doubt, from 
its remains being found with those of the previously de- 
scribed large extinct Carnivora in the same recent tertiary 
deposits in India, Italy, Germany, and France, as well 
as in the caves of England, that it was their contemporary. 
When we are informed that, in some districts of India, 
entire villages have been depopulated by the destructive in- 
cursions of a single species of large Feline animal, the Tiger, 
