68 CA.KNIYORA. 



b. From the Pleistocene of Buenos Ayres. 



37682. The distal extremity of the left humems of a feline Car- 

 nivore about the size of a Leopard, exhibiting a large ent 

 e-picondylar foramen. This bone belonged to an adult 

 animal, and is far too small for Machcerodw neogceus. 



Bravard Collection. Purchased, 1854. 



c. From the Pleistocene of the Narbada Valley, India. 

 15924. Distal extremity of the right femur of a species of the size 

 of a large Tiger. Presented by C. Fraser, Esq. 



15922. Distal extremity of the left femur, of rather smaller size 

 than the last specimen ; collected at the village of Naogaon 

 in 1839. No history. 



d. From ilie Pleistocene of England. 



M. 1625. Portion of the humerus (apparently) of a large feline ; 

 from the Forest-bed of Kessingland, Norfolk. This speci- 

 men is noticed by Newton in the Mem. Geol. Surv. 

 England and Wales, " Vertebrata of Forest-bed Series of 

 Norfolk and Suffolk," p. 23 (1882). 



Presented by Miss L. Martineau, 1884. 



Family HY^ENIDJE. 



In many respects the typical genus is more intimately allied to 

 Canis (notably in the structure of the feet and the absence of an 

 entepicondylar foramen to the humerus) than to the preceding 

 family ; and as some of the Viverridce are extremely close to the 

 Felidce, the former family is very frequently placed next to the 

 latter. The relationship of Oynodictis to the Viverridce is, how- 

 ever, so extremely intimate that it seems imperative to place the 

 Ganoids and Viverroids in juxtaposition. The dentition of some of 

 the most specialized species of Hycena is moreover extremely feline, 

 while some of the more generalized forms (Leptliyazna) are very like 

 those of some of the primitive felines, so that there are strong indi- 

 cations of affinity between the two families. On the other hand, the 

 more generalized species of Hycena (H. macrostoma) exhibit very 

 strongly marked affinities to the Canoids, while the genus Ictithe- 

 rium closely connects other species {H. sivalensis) with the Viver- 

 roids ; so that the impossibility of exhibiting the full affinities of a 

 group by any lineal system of classification is very strongly exem- 

 plified. 



