182 CARNTVORA. 



Dentition : 1. f , C. J, Pm. J, M. J. This species is about the size 

 of the existing Stoat. 

 Hob. France. 



31018, Anterior portion of the cranium of an immature individual, 



wanting all the teeth except the milk and permanent 

 carnassials, the latter of which is just protruding on the 

 left side; from the Lower Miocene of Allier, France. 

 This specimen appears to be precisely similar to the one 

 figured by Filhol in the Ann. Sci. Geol. vol. x. pi. xxv. 

 figs. 1, 4. Bravard Collection. Purchased, 1852. 



31019. Fragment of the right ramus of the mandible, containing the 



last two premolars and the carnassial ; from the Lower 

 Miocene of Allier. This specimen is precisely similar to 

 the one figured by Filhol in figs. 6 and 7 of the plate 

 quoted above. Bravard Collection. Purchased, 1852. 



Mustela waterhousei (Fomel ' >. 

 Syn. Plesiogale waterhousei, Pomel 2 . 



Dentition: I. f, C. J, Pm. , M. J. 

 Hob. France. 



27815. Fragment of the left ramus of the mandible, containing the 

 (Fig.} two last premolars and the carnassial, of which the inner 

 cusp is broken off; from the Lower Miocene of Eonzon 

 (Puy-en-Yelay), France. This specimen is the type of 

 the species, and is described by Pomel in the following 

 words: "Espece un peu plus petite que le putois, re- 

 marquable par 1'acuite des avant-molaires inferieures. 

 Cette espece et la suivante[Jf. mustelina]noMs montrent que 

 1'apophyse coronoide est tres-elargie au soumet et comme 

 termine'e en fer de hache. La grande etendue de la fosse 

 masseterine acheve d'indiquer une tres-grande force dans 

 1'appareil musculaire qui mouvait les machoires ". It 

 would appear that the coronoid process has been broken 

 off since the time of Pomel's description. In the Ann. 

 Sci. Geol. vol. x. art. 3, p. 183, pi. xxv. fig. 10, Filhol 

 describes and figures a right ramus of the mandible from 



1 Catalogue Methodique, p. 49 (1853), Plesiogale. 2 Loc. cit. 



