RHIUOCEKOTID;E. 139 



Hab. (Recent) Nipal, Bhutan, and Assam ; (Prehistoric (?)) 

 Madras L ; and (Pleistocene) Xarbada Valley. 



39686. A left astragalus, provisionally referred to the species ; from 

 (Fig.) the Pleistocene of the Narbada Valley, India. Figured by 



Falconer and Cautley in the ' Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis,' 



pi. Ixxvi. fig. 18. 



Presented by G. Fraser, Esq. Before 1843. 



D. Diceratherine Group 2 . 



The nasals, although small, are strongly curved, and each carries 

 a small process, which probably formed the point of attachment of 

 a small lateral horn. Upper and lower incisors and lower canines 

 are present. There are apparently three digits in the manus. 



Dentition 3 : I. \, C. ?, Pm. |, M. f. 



Rhinoceros mimitus, Cuvier 4 . 



Syn. (?) Rhinoceros steinheimensis, Jager 5 . 



Rhinoceros tapirinus, Pomel 6 (? inparte). 

 Rhinoceros paradoxus, Pomel 7 (? inparte). 

 Rhinoceros pleuroceros, Duvernoy 8 . 

 Acer atlier nun minutum, Kaup 9 . 

 Diceratherium pleuroceros, Cope 10 . 



This species is of small size ; the upper true molars have a well- 

 developed " crochet " and " antecrochet," but no internal cingulum ; 

 the lower cheek-teeth have a distinct external cingulum. 



Hab. Europe. 



28845. Cast of the left half of the cranium, showing one incisor and 

 six cheek-teeth. The original is from the Lower Miocene 

 of Gannat (Allier), France, and is preserved in the Paris 

 Museum of Natural History. It is described and figured 



1 See Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. xlix. pt. 2, p. 28 (1880). 



2 G-enus Diceratherium, Marsh. 



3 Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. vol. xix. p. 393 (1881) ; in the Amer. Nat. 

 vol. xiii. p. 7716 (1879), it was given as I. |, C. . 



4 Ossemens Fossiles, 2nd ed. vol. ii. pt. i. p. 93 (1822). 



5 Foss. Saugeth. WiirtL p. 69 (1835^39). Identified with this species in 

 Kaup's 'Beitrage,' pt. 1, p. 1. 



6 Bull. Soc. Geol. France, ser. 2, vol. i. p. 591 (1844). 



7 Catalogue Methodique, p. 78 (1853). 



8 Arch. d. Museum, vol. vit. p. 42 (1854). 



9 Beitrage, 1st ed. pt. 1, p. 1 (1854). 



10 Amer. Nat. vol. xiii. p. 77U (1879). 



