144 CARNIVORA. 



M. 1695. Upper portion of the left femur. This specimen agrees 

 very closely with one from the Lower Miocene figured by 

 Filhol (op. cit. fig. 3), under the same name. 



Purchased, 1884. 



M. 1713. The axis vertebra of a large Carnivore. This specimen is 

 about 1| times the size of the axis vertebra from the Lower 

 Miocene, figured by Filhol in the Ann. Sci. Geol. vol. x. 

 pi. xiii. fig. 2, and referred to A. lemanemis ; but does 

 not appear much too large for the cranium figured in the 

 same plate. Purchased, 1884. 



M. 1714. The calcaneum, nearly of the same size as the specimen 

 from the Lower Miocene figured by Filhol in the Ann. 

 Sci. Geol. vol. x. pi. xvi. fig. 6. 



M. 1715. Two smaller calcanea. Purchased, 1884. 



M. 1716. Two right astragali. The larger may be feline. 



Purchased, 1884. 



M. 1717. Numerous metapodial bones. Purchased, 1884. 



M. 1718. Several caudal vertebrae. Purchased, 1884. 



Genus SIMOCYON, A. Wagner 1 . 

 Syn. Metarctos, Gaudry 2 . 

 Pseudocyon, Wagner . 



History. The history of this genus is rather complex. In 1833 

 Kaup (Oss. Foss. de Darmstadt, pt. ii. p. 15) described and figured 

 a lower jaw from Eppelsheim (of which, according to Gaudry, he 

 had given a preliminary notice in 1832), under the name of Gulo dia- 

 phorus. In 1854 Roth and Wagner (Abh. math.-phys. Cl. k.-bay. Ak. 

 Wiss. vol. vii. pi. ii.) figured part of a lower jaw from Pikermi under 

 the name of Gulo primigenius. Later on Wagner described another 

 specimen under the name of Canis lupus primigenius. In 1857 (op. 

 cit. vol. viii. p. 128, pi. vi. fig. 13) he figured a perfect skull and 

 mandible under the name of Pseudocyon robustus, referring to it both 

 his Gulo primigenius and Canis lupus primi genius. In the following 

 year (' Geschichte der Vorwelt,' vol. ii.), according to Hensel, finding 

 that the term Pseudocyon was preoccupied, Wagner proposed the 

 new generic term Simocyon. In 1860 Gaudry (' Comptes Eendus,' 



1 Geschichte der Vorwelt, vol. ii. (1858) (teste Hensel). 



2 Comptes Eendus, yol. Ii. p. 926 (I860). 



3 Abh. math.-phys. 01. k.-bay. Ak. Wiss. yol. viii. p. 128 (1857). 



