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Genus COBUS, A. Smith 1 . 

 Including Adenota and Onotragus, Gray. 



Cobus (?) palaeindicus, Lydekker, n. sp. 



This species is founded on the first of the specimens noticed below, 

 which the writer hopes to figure on a subsequent occasion in the 

 ' Palaeontologia Indica.' 



Hob. India. 



M. 2402. The cranium, in a somewhat damaged condition, and 

 wanting the greater part of the horn-cores ; from the 

 Pliocene of the Siwalik Hills. This specimen is the type, 

 and indicates an animal about one third smaller than the 

 existing African C. sing-sing. It agrees with the cranium 

 of the latter in the large frontal depression and foramina, 

 in the general outline of the cranium, position of the 

 orbits, setting-on of the horn-cores, the form of the basi- 

 occipital tubercles, of the bullae, and the hinder part of 

 the palate ; the molars also agree in their relative small 

 size and the general absence of internal accessory columns. 

 The specimen is readily distinguished from C. sing-sing 

 by its narrower proportions and inferior size, and does not 

 appear to come closer to any other species ; its resemblance 

 to the former is so strong as to justify at least its pro- 

 visional reference to the same genus. 



Transferred from the Old India Museum, 1880. 



39559. The hinder portion of a cranium 2 , apparently belonging to 

 the present species ; from the Siwalik Hills. This spe- 

 cimen shows the basal halves of the horn-cores : in the 

 depressed frontals, large supraorbital pits, facial vacuity, 

 and basioccipital, it agrees with the type and with Cobus 

 sing-sing. The horn-cores are widely separated, rounded, 

 and are directed upwards, backwards, and somewhat 

 outwards. Presented by Dr. Hugh Falconer. 



48456 d. Fragment of a right frontal and horn-core, apparently 

 belonging to the same species ; from the Siwalik Hills. 



Cautley Collection. Presented, 1842. 



1 Illustr. Zool. of S. Africa, No. 12 (1840), Kolms. 



2 This and the two following specimens are noticed in the Geol. Mag. dec. 3, 

 vol. ii. p. 171 (1885), but were not then generically determined. 



