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hind talon consisting of large cusps. The mandibular symphysig is 

 unknown 1 , and the milk-molars have not yet been determined; it 

 is uncertain whether premolars were developed. 

 Hub. India (Perim Island) 2 . 



M. 2882. The imperfect cranium, showing the broken bases of m. 2 

 (-Fie/.) and m- 3 of either side; from the Pliocene Siwaliks of 

 Perim Island, Gulf of Cambay, India. This specimen is the 

 type, and is figured, by Falconer and Cautley in the 

 'Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis,' pis. xxxviii., xxxix. The 

 molars are nearly parallel, with a comparatively narrow 

 interval between them. The dimensions of m. 2 are 0,115 

 X 0,078, and those of m. 3 0,177 X 0,080. 



Presented ly Captain G. Fidljames, 1849. 



40679. The palate, showing the worn m. 2 and the unworn but 

 broken m-_3 of either side ; from Perim Island. This 

 specimen corresponds exactly with the palate of the last 

 specimen ; the dimensions of the base of m. 2 being 0,120 

 X 0,078, and those of m. 3 0,179 x 0,080. The third molar 

 is too imperfect to afford a satisfactory figure ; it has five 

 ridges and a small hind talon, the ridges being rather 

 narrow, the valleys much blocked, and the hinder ex- 

 tremity moderately tapering. 



Presented by C. Falconer, Esq., 1867. 



M 2851. Cast of the germ of the second left upper true molar, 

 imperfect anteriorly. The original is from Perim Island, 

 and is preserved in the Indian Museum, Calcutta (No. 

 A 355) ; it is figured by the present writer in the ' Palaeon- 

 tologia Indica,' ser. 10, vol. iii. pi. xvii. fig. 8 (the figure 

 being reproduced in woodcut, fig. 14). The dimensions of 

 this specimen are 0,138x0,081; and it appears (allow- 

 ing for the worn condition of the one) to agree exactly 

 with the corresponding tooth of No. 40679, and also with 

 the specimen of the opposite side figured in ' Falconer's 

 Palseontological Memoirs,' vol. i. pi. ix. fig. 6. 



Made in the Museum, 1885. 



1 The specimens figured in the ' Palaeontologia Indica,' ser. 10, vol. i. pis. xl.- 

 xlii. (except pi. xli. fig. 4), are now referred to a distinct species (M. punjabi- 

 ensis, q. v.). 



2 A tooth from China figured by Koken in the Pal. Abhand. vol. iii. pt. 2, 

 pi. vii. fig. 1 (1885), under this name is probably specifically distinct. 



