STRONGYLOCEROS SPELAUS, 4.69 
RUMINANTIA. CERVUS. 
Fig. 193. Fig. 194. 
Strongyloceros speleeus, Kent’s Hole, Megaceros, shell-marl, } nat size. 
+ nat. size, 
STRONGYLOCEROS SPELARUS. Gigantic Round- 
antlered Deer. 
Tue base of an antler, equalling in dimensions that of the 
largest Megaceros, has been found fossil and partly gnawed 
by Hyeenas, in the cavern of Kent’s Hole near Torquay. 
This fragment (fig. 193), fifteen inches im circumference, 
differs from the antler of the Megaceros (fig. 194) in send- 
ing off the bezantler (42) at a shorter distance from the 
brow-antler (47), and in the beam diminishing in size and 
preserving the cylindrical figure above the origin of the 
bezantler, by which it may be inferred that the species so 
