UESID.S. 135 



specimen is too incomplete to determine whether it is 

 specifically the same as one of the living species. 



Claussen Collection. Purchased, 1845. 



18911. Numerous canines of an undetermined Ganoid ; from the 

 caverns of Brazil. Claussen Collection. Purchased, 1845. 



Canis curvipalatus, Bose \ 

 Hob. India. 



37149. The associated cranium and mandible ; from the Pliocene of 



(Fig.) the Siwalik Hills, India. This specimen, which is the type 



of the species, is described and figured by Baker and 



Durand in the Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. v. pi. xxxvii. 



figs. 9-12; it is also described by Bose in the passage 



cited ; and is described and figured by the present writer 



in the < Palseontologia Indica,' ser. 10, vol. ii. p. 254, 



pi. xxxii. figs. 1, la, 7. It exhibits some very curious 



points of affinity with the South-African genus Otocyon. 



Cautley Collection. Presented, 1842. 



15919. Five associated limb-bones, comprising the two femora, the 

 tibia, astragalus, and calcaneum ; from the Pliocene of the 

 Siwalik Hills. These bones are somewhat smaller than 

 those of C. vulpes, and on this account might well belong 

 to the present species. Cautley Collection. Presented, 1842. 



15913. The distal two-thirds of the right tibia; from the Pliocene 



of the Siwalik Hills. This specimen agrees with the 



corresponding bone of the specimens under the last number. 



Cautley Collection. Presented, 1842. 



Canis palustris, H. von Meyer 2 . 

 Syn. Galfcynus oeningensis, Owen 3 . 

 Hob. Switzerland. 



27402. Complete skeleton ; from the Upper Miocene of (Eningen, 



(Fig.) Switzerland. This specimen, which is the type of the 



species, and of the genus Oalecynus, Owen, was originally 



described and figured by Murchison and Mantell in the 



1 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxxvi. p. 134 (1880). 



2 Neues Jahrb. 1843, p. 701. 



3 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. iii. p. 55, figs. 1, 3, 5 (1847, read 1846). 

 Owen supersedes Meyer's name palustris from the circumstance that Blain- 

 ville had previously referred to the specimen as Vulpe tf (Eningen. 



