280 Messrs. J. H. Cooke and A. S. Woodward. 



covered. Of the Immerus, which belongs to the left side, the distal 

 two-thirds of the shaft is alone preserved without either extremity ; 

 and it can only be said that the bone indicates an animal of the size 

 of Elephas mnaidriensis. To this species, however, may be ascribed 

 with certainty the molar tooth, which resembles in all respects the 

 upper molar 2, as described by Leith Adams. The tooth is worn and 

 fixed in a fragment of the jaw, but its anterior portion has been 

 broken away beyond the fourth plate. 



Hippopotamus Pentlandi. 



Bones and portions of dentition of Hippopotamus form nearly the 

 whole of the collection of remains from the cave earth ; and it is 

 noteworthy that nearly all these remains pertain to adult animals. 

 They are much broken, and very similar in character to the bones 

 and teeth of Hippopotamus Pentlandi discovered by Dr. Falconer in 

 the Grotta di Maccagnone, Sicily. There can be no hesitation,, 

 indeed, in assigning the Maltese form to this species ; and the follow- 

 ing few maximum measurements, made so far as the fragmentary 

 bones will allow, indicate its small dimensions as compared with 

 H. amphibius : 



Length and breadth of glenoid facette of scapula. . 0*085 x 0'073 

 Width of trochlear articulation, distal end of humerus . , 0'09 



Length of radius 0-235 



Width of proximal articulation of radius 0'083 



distal O'llO 1 



Length and breadth of acetabulum 0'079 x 0'085 



Width of proximal end of femur 0'155 



distal articulation 0'14 



proximal articulation of tibia 0'146 



Astragalus 0'09 x 0'075 x 0'05 



Length of calcaneum 0'17 



Cervine Remains. 



From a superficial layer of the cave earth in exca-vation No. IV r 

 numerous much mineralised remains of Deer of various sizes were 

 obtained. All the bones and antlers are rolled and too fragmentary 

 for specific determination ; but the majority may well have belonged. 

 to the Barbary Deer, of which there is good evidence in the over- 

 lying deposit. Several fragments prove that the antlers were not shed' 

 specimens, and one base exhibits the insertion of two brow tynes such 

 as characterise the adult G. elaphus. 



Other fragmentary Cervine remains, including one pedicle and burr 

 of antler, were discovered in the cave earth in Excavation No. YI 



