TJBSIDJS. 175 



Ursus arvernensis, Croizet and Jobert 1 . 

 Syn. Ursus minimus, Dev. and Boriel. 



Ursus minutus, P. Gervais. 

 Hob. France. 



28879. Cast of the right ramus of the mandible, showing the canine 

 and the last four cheek-teeth; the original is from the 

 Upper Pliocene of Puy-de-D6me, France. The alveoli of the 

 first three premolars are present ; there is no inner cusp 

 to pm. 4, and the interval between that tooth and the 

 canine is relatively smaller than is usually the case in 

 U. arctos. No history. 



27648. Fragment of the left maxilla, containing the last true molar ; 

 from the Pliocene of Arde, France. 



Croizet Collection. Purchased, 1848. 



Ursus namadicus, Falconer and Cautley 2 . 

 Hob. India. 



39720. Part of the right maxilla, containing the last three cheek- 

 (Fig.) teeth and the broken base of pm. 3 ; from the Pleistocene 

 of the Narbada valley, India. This specimen, which is 

 the type of the species, is figured by Falconer and Cautley 

 in plate of the '' Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis,' and by 

 Murchison in vol. i. pi. xxvi. fig. 5, of ' Falconer's Palae- 

 ontological Memoirs '; it is described and figured by the 

 present writer in the ' Pakxmtologia Indica,' ser. 10, 

 vol. ii. p. 216, pi. xxviii. fig. 3. As far as can be judged 

 from the extremely imperfect remains at present available, 

 this species seems on the whole to have approached nearest 

 to the existing Ursus malayanus, but is distinguished by 

 its superior size, and the form and relative dimensions of 

 pm. 3, pm. 4, and m. 2. It is impossible to say at present 

 whether or no the one form may be regarded as on the 

 direct line of descent of the other. 



Presented ly Gen. Sir W. E. Baker, K.C.B., 1848. 



39727. The left tibia; from the Pleistocene of the Narbada valley. 

 (Fig.) This specimen is mentioned 3 and figured by the present 



writer in the ' Palaeontologia Indica,' ser. 10, vol. ii. p. 218, 



pi. xxix. figs. 3, 3 a. 



Presented by C. Fraser, Esq. Before 1843. 



1 ' Ossemens Fossiles du Puy-de-D6me ', p. 188 (1828). 



2 In ' Falconer's Palaontological Memoirs, Vol. i. p. 552 (1868). 



3 The number is erroneously given as 39729. 



