115 



Upper Eocene of Caylux (Tarn-et-Garonne), France. This 

 specimen shows all the cheek-teeth, except pmTl, and 

 appears to agree precisely with the type specimen figured 

 by Filhol in the Ann. Sci. Geol. vol. vii. pi. xxiv. fig. 102, 

 in which the earlier premolars are wanting. It differs 

 from the mandible of G. compressidens by the shorter pmTl, 

 the longer mTT, and the larger mTg. Purchased, 1884. 



Cynodictis intermedia, Filhol 1 . 

 Hob. France. 



M. 1356. The anterior portion of the cranium ; from the Upper 

 Eocene of Caylux (Tarn-et-Garonne), France. This speci- 

 men, which wants the nasals, shows the two true molars 

 and the last three premolars, as well as the alveoli of the 

 remaining teeth. It apparently agrees precisely with the 

 type cranium figured by Filhol in the Ann. Sci. Geol. 

 vol. vii. pi. xxiv. fig. 105 2 ; and exhibits well the extreme 

 shortness of the facial part and the great width of the 

 zygomata, which are such characteristic features of the 

 species. The teeth agree very closely with those of the 

 type (Filhol, op. cit. fig. 104) ; but the inner portion of 

 the true molars is rather shorter antero-posteriorly. In 

 the sudden contraction in width immediately in advance 

 of the carnassial, this cranium more nearly resembles some 

 of the meionocreodont species of Canis (e.g. G. bengalensis) 

 than Viverra ; and in the extreme shortness of the face 

 and palate is more like Herpestes than either of the other 

 two genera. The cheek-teeth are, however, readily distin- 

 guished from those of existing species of Herpestes by the 

 absence of the inner cusp of pm. 3 : the palatine foramina 

 are of the elongated form of those of Canis and Viverra. 



Purchased, 1884. 



Cynodictis boriei, Filhol 3 . 



A large species, with a remarkably meionocreodont dentition. 

 Hab. France. 



M. 1652. Fragment of the left maxilla, containing the four last 



1 Ann. Sci. Geol. vol. vii. art. 7, p. HO (1876). 



2 In the explanation of the plate, fig. 105 is given as C. leptorhyncha and 

 fig. 106 as C. intermedia ; marginal corrections made by M. Filhol in a copy 

 presented to the writer indicate, however, that these names should be trans- 

 posed. 



3 Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, ser. 6, vol. x. p. 86 (1874). 



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