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Subfamily 1. Stenorhynchina. Cutting teeth \ j hind-feet 

 nearly clawless ; muffle hairy to the edge and between the 

 nostrils j fore-feet triangular ; wrist very short. 



Stenorhynchina, Gray, Ann. Phil. 1825. 340; Zool. Erebus fy 

 Terror. 



* The first, second and third front upper, and the first front 

 lower grinders single-rooted, the rest two-rooted. 



1. LOBODON. 



Skull elongate ; muzzle elongate ; grinders rather compressed, 

 with a large lobe in front, and three lobes behind the larger 

 central one. 



Head elongate; ear-conch none externally; muzzle broad; 

 nostrils ovate, hairy to the edge ; whiskers rigid/tapering, waved ; 

 skull elongate, rather depressed ; muzzle broad, rather produced ; 

 orbits moderate : the petrose portion of the temporal bone very 

 convex, nearly hemispherical. 



Cutting teeth , the upper middle ones moderate, with a 

 smaller rather compressed crown, the two others large, conical, 

 like the canines ; the lower pair small, the two middle ones sub- 

 cylindrical, rather internal, projecting forwards and rounded at 

 the end, the outer ones rather larger, blunt ; canines l ~, conical, 

 curved, small, the upper largest ; grinders , with large swollen 

 roots, the crown triangular, subtrigonal, lobed, lobes rather re- 



Fig. 2. 



Lobodon carcinophaga. Skull and hinder grinder. 



curved at the tip, the larger lobe with one, or sometimes a second, 

 small lobe in front, and with three lobes behind; the 1st upper 



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