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15542 a. Cast of the first left upper true molar. The original, 

 which is the type of the species, and is helieved to be in 

 the Paris Museum, is from the Lower Miocene of Avaray 

 (Loir-ei^Cher), Trance ; and is figured by Cuvier in 

 pi. cxciii. fig. 20 of the 4th ed. of the ' Ossemens Fossiles ; ' 

 it is also figured by De Blainville in the ' Osteographie,' 

 genus Subursus, pi. xiv., under the name of Amphicyon, 

 d' Avaray ; De Blainville was inclined to consider it as a 

 variety of A., major. Purchased. 



Amphicyon major, Blainville 1 . 

 Syn. Amphicyon crassidens, Pomel. 

 Amphicyon laurillardi, Pomel. 

 Amphicyon minor, Blainville (in parte). 

 (?) Pseudocyon sansaniensis, Lartet. 



This species is as large as a Brown Bear. 

 Hob. France. 



29615. Cast of the left maxilla and premaxilla, showing the canine, 



pm. 1 ? pm. 4, m. 1, and m. 2. The original of this specimen, 

 which is the type, is preserved in the Paris Museum, and 

 was obtained from the Middle Miocene of Sansan (Gers), 

 France. It is figured by De Blainville in the ' Osteo- 

 graphie,' genus Subursus, pi. xiv. 



Hastings Collection. Purchased, 1855. 



28150. The first left upper true molar (wanting a part of the outer 

 half), and the anterior part of the left lower carnassial, 

 both in a well-worn condition, and probably associated ; 

 from the Middle Miocene of Sansan. 



Bravard Collection. Purchased, 1852. 



29616. Cast of the distal half of the left humerus, wanting the 



bridge over the entepicondylar foramen. The original is 

 from the Middle Miocene of Sansan, and is preserved in 

 the Paris Museum. Hastings Collection. Purchased, 1855. 



1 ' Ost<ographie,' genus Svhursus, p. 78, pis. xiv., XT. (1841). Pomel (Cat. M<th. 

 p. 72) divided Blairrrille's A. major into the two species A. laurittardi and 

 A. cultridens. As, however, he did not give figures or clear definitions it is 

 better, with Prof. Peters, to retain all the specimens figured by Blainville under 

 the name of A. major, which has the priority over Pomel's names ; the Sansan 

 specimens indicate, however, a large and a small race. The lower jaw from 

 Monte Bamboli, figured by Meneghini under the name of A. laurillardi (Atti. 

 Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. vol. iv. pi. ii.A.), has been referred by Gervais (Zool. et Pal. 

 Generales, ser. 2, p. 22 [1876] to a new species of Hyeenaretoa. Pomel referred 

 Pseudocyon sansaniensis, Lart., to his A. laurillardi ; a reference which is pro- 

 visionally followed here. 



