ANTHRACOTHEKIID^:. 235 



from Dera Bugti, and is preserved in the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta. It is described and figured by the present 

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

 p. 163, pi. xxv. fig. 2. 



Presented by the Superintendent of the 

 Geological Survey of India, 1883. 



Genus ANTHRACOTHERIUM, Cuvier 1 . 

 Syn. Tapinodon, H. v. Meyer 2 . 



Anthracotherium hyopotamoides, Lydekker 3 . 



This species is intermediate in size between A. magnum and 

 A. alsaticum. The outer cusps of the upper molars are connected 

 by a more distinct loop than in other species, thus showing a 

 great resemblance to the brachydont forms of Ryopotamus. 



Hob. North-west frontier of India. 



M. 1544. Cast of the hinder portion of the right maxilla, showing 

 m. 3, and the base of m- 2. The original is from the Lower 

 Siwaliks of the Biigti Hills, on the north-west frontier of 

 India, and is preserved in the Indian Museum, Calcutta ; it 

 is described and figured by the present writer in the 

 ' Palaeontologia Indica,' ser. 10, vol. ii. p. 153, pi. xxiv. 

 fig. 2. Presented by the /Superintendent of the 



Geological /Survey of India, 1883. 



M. 1545. Cast of a fragment of the right ramus of a mandible, pro- 

 visionally assigned to the present species. The history of 

 the original of this specimen is the same as the last. It 

 is figured in pi. xxv. fig. 1 of the memoir cited. 



Presented by the Superintendent of the 

 Geological Survey of India, 1883. 



M. 1546. Cast of a fragment of the right ramus of a mandible 

 similar to the last. The history of the original of this 



1 Ossemens Fossiles, 2nd ed. vol. iii. p. 396 (1822). A synopsis of the 

 species is given by Teller in the Beitr. Pal. Ost.-Ung. vol. iv. part 1 (1884). 

 Meyer's A. dalmatinum is there referred to the new genus, Prominatherium. 



2 Neues Jahrb. 1846, p. 471. 



3 Palceontologia Indica (Mein. Geol. Surv. Ind.), ser. 10, vol. ii. p. 152 

 (1883). 



