144 EDENTATA. 



Siwaliks (Lower Pliocene or Upper Miocene) of Sind, and is 

 figured by the writer in the ' Palaeontologia Indica,' ser. 10, 

 vol. i. pi. viii. figs. 11-14, under the name of Manis, and 

 in vol. iv. p. 50, woodcut, fig. 4, of the same work, under 

 the present generic name. Presented by the Director 



of the Geologiml Survey of India, 1886. 



Macrotherium giganteum (Meyer 1 [ex Cuv.]). 



Syn. Pangolin gigantesque, Cuvier 2 . 

 Manis gigantea, Meyer 3 . 

 Macrotherium sansaniense, Lartet 4 . 



Although the name Pangolin gigantesque or Manis gigantea (which 

 was applied to a phalangeal from Eppelsheim) was really preoccu 

 pied hy Illiger's term for the large existing Manis of West Africa. 

 yet it seems advisable to retain the specific name in conjunction 

 with Macrotherium, rather than to substitute Lartct's name of M. 

 sansaniense, which was applied to the apparently identical Sansan 

 form 6 . The species was apparently nearly as large as Mylodon 

 robustus. 



Hob. Europe. 



M. 418. Cast of the imperfect terminal phalangeal of the third (?) 

 digit of the (probably) pes. The original, which is rather 

 more incomplete than the cast, was obtained from the 

 bone-sand of Eppelsheim, Hessen-Darmstadt, and is the 

 type of the species ; it is figured by Cuvier in the ' Osse- 

 mens Fossiles,' 2nd ed. vol. v. pt. 1, pi. xvi. figs. 26, 27, 

 under the name of Pangolin gigantesque, and by Kaup in 

 the ' Oss. Foss. de Darmstadt,' pt. 4, pi. ii. bis, figs. 6, 7, 8, 

 as Dinofherium giganteum, 



Egerton Collection. Purchased, 1882. 



21492. The terminal phalangeal of the third (?) digit of the (pro- 

 bably) manus ; from Eppelsheim. This specimen is con- 

 siderably larger than the preceding ; and is therefore, in 

 accordance with Gaudry's provisional determination of the 

 homologous bones of Ancyloiherium pentelici, referred to 

 the fore limb. Purchased, 1847 



Palseologica, p. 63 (1832). Manis. 



Ossemens Fossiles, 2nd ed. vol. v. pt. i. p. 193 1823). 



Loc. cit. 



Annuaire du Departement du Gers, 1839, teste Lartet ; see Note, p. 143. 



In Gervais's Zool. et Pal. Francises, 1st ed. pt. 1, p. 136 (1848-52), tlie 

 name M. giganteum is applied to the Sansan form as a misquotation from 

 Lartet. 



