DESCRIPTION OF PLATES. 15 
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Elephas Namadicus (Fale. and Caut.) From the valley of the 
Nerbudda. Probably a female, from small size of tusks. This 
specimen was presented to the Museum of the United Service In- 
stitution by Major Orlando Felix, and was received by him with other 
Nerbudda specimens, from Lieut.-Colonel Ouseley. It was chiselled 
out by Dr. Falconer, and determined by him to be a new species. In 
a letter to Lieut.-Colonel Ousely, Dr. F. writes thus: ‘It is probably 
the most perfect specimen of a fossil elephant’s cranium in Europe. 
The species is especially interesting from the form of the cranium, 
which is so grotesquely constructed that it looks the caricature of 
an elephant’s head in a periwig. I have named the species LH. Nama- 
dicus, after the Nerbudda river, the Namadus of Ptolemy.’ There is a 
very similar specimen in the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 
Extreme length from occipital bosses to molar surface, 29°8 in. Extreme width 
of occiput, 30°0 in. From plane of occipital bosses to tip of nasals, 17-4 in. From 
bottom of fossa of bosses to tip of nasals, 12:9 in. From bottom of bosses to 
anterior margin of frontal bulge, 10°5 in. Depth of occipital fossa below the plane 
of the bosses, 7°5 in. Length of crista galli-like plate, 11-2 in. Greatest con- 
traction of brow between the temporals, 20-0 in. Projection of frontal bulge 
above plane of forehead, 2°7 in. From anterior margin of orbit to occipital bosses, 
24°8 in. Width of deep occipital fossa, 5-6 in. Transverse extent nasal opening, 
15°0 in. Vertical height of nasal at sides, 5°3 in. Width of brow between 
middle of orbits, 20:0 in. Width between tips of posterior orbital processes, 25:0 
in. Antero-posterior diameter right orbit, 6-2 in. Width of base of muzzle at 
contraction of the sub-orbitaries, 10°8 in. Interval between outside of maxillaries, 
10-1 in. Vertical diameter sub-orbitary foramen, 31 in. From auditory foramen 
to anterior margin of orbit, 14:0 in. Transverse diameter, right tusk, 2°9 in. 
Vertical diameter of right tusk, 2°5 in. Depth of temp. fossa from ear (foramen 
auditor.) to frontal margin of fossa at contraction, 13°3 in. Interval across 
the occipital condyles, 9°7 in. Antero-posterior diam. left condyle, 4°6 in. 
Transverse, 3°2 in. Antero-posterior diam. occipital foramen, 3°0 in. Transverse 
diameter occipital foramen, 3°6 in, From anterior margin occipital hole to 
posterior of surface palate, 13°9 in. Length of palate from niche to diasteme, 
about 84 in. Width of base of skull at posterior end of zygoma, 26:2 in. 
Width between ridge of pterygoids, 9:1 in. Height of pterygoid ala of sphenoid 
above Vidian hole, 10-0 in. Length of articular surface for lower jaw, 5:1 in. 
Across articular surface for lower jaw, 3°3 in. Length of remaining portion left 
molar, 7°5 in. Width of remaining portion left molar, 3°7 in. N.B.—Twelve 
plates in this extent. Width of palate in front (between molars), 2°8 in. Width 
‘behind, 4:1 in.! 
1 Memorandum upon the Nerbudda Fossil Eiephant, India House specimen. 
Corse’s 
Measurements of the sixth or last ilephas Assam, large Hilephas Elephas 
+ rece specimen ys se 
True Grinder iad recent Beit, Mus.|  dticus primigen. 
Inches Inches Inches Inches Inches 
Length of the eleven anterior 
plates measured near the 
base ‘ , ‘ 8:1 a7 5.6 (etl 4°5 
Width or thickness of the 
ivory core, third plate, one 
inch above the base : 0°45 (0-2 suc 4:5 
Width or thickness of the 
ivory core, fifth plate, one 
inch above the base : 0°5 0-2 mee 0°35 0°3 
