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precisely with the mandible of S. chalaniati figured by 

 Filhol in the Ann. Sci. Geol. vol. x. pi. xii. fig. 31. 



Purchased, 1884. 



Sciums, sp. (cf. S. bredai, H. v. Meyer 1 ). 

 Hob. Europe. 



42826. The much-crushed skeleton of a rodent, probably belonging 

 to the present genus, from the Upper Miocene of (Eningen, 

 Switzerland. It is not improbable that this specimen, 

 which indicates an animal rather smaller than S. vul- 

 garis, may belong to Meyer's ill- defined S. bredai, which 

 Schlosser 2 suggests may be identical with one of the 

 Sansan species. Van Breda Collection. Purchased, 1871. 



Genus PSEUDOSCIURUS, Hensel 3 . 



Dentition. The cheek-teeth of this genus are distinguished from 

 those of Sciurus by their more elongated crowns. The number of 

 the teeth is the same as in Sciurus. 



Pseudosciurus suevicus, Hensel 4 . 

 Hab. Switzerland. 



35820. Fragments of the mandible and incisors; from the Upper 

 Eocene (" Bohnerz ") of (Erlinger-Thal, Wiirtemberg. 



Purchased, 1860. 



35821-2. Two incisors ; from the Upper Eocene of (Erlinger-Thal. 



Purchased 1860. 



35823. Three vertebra ; from the Upper Eocene of CErlinger-Thal. 



Purchased, 1860. 



35824. Fragments of various limb-bones ; from the Upper Eocene 



of CErlinger-Thal. Purchased 1860. 



Genus SCIUROIDES, Forsyth-Major 5 . 



The cheek-teeth of this genus are also of an elongated form. The 

 number of the teeth is the same as in Sciurus. 



1 Neues Jahrb. 1848, p. 472. 



2 Palajontographica, vol. rsxi. p. 70 (1884). 



a Zeitschr. deutech. geol. Ges. vol. viii. p. 660 (1856). 4 Ibid. p. 670. 



5 Palseontographica, vol. xxii. p. 83 (1878). 



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