Tertiary.] PALAEONTOLOGY OF VICTORIA. ^Mammalia. 



dicular to the surface surrounding it. These may be old teeth of 

 females. 



Locality Not uncommon in the Miocene Tertiary of the Waurn 

 Ponds quarries, near Geelong. The Rev. Mr. Legge, the Rev. Mr. 

 Price, and Mr. Nelson, having forwarded the specimens with 

 portions of snout bones. 



EXPLANATION OP FIGURKS. 



Plate LXIX. Fig. 1, base or fang of left mandibular tooth, viewed from outside, showing 

 large pulp cavity at outer side of obtusely rounded apex, and the diminished pulp fissure to 

 which it is reduced at obliquely truncated base (marked f), natural size. Fig. la, same, viewed 

 from front, showing the absence of lateral inarching. Fig. \b, section near apex. Fig. Ic, 

 section near base. (NOTE. The lettering has been accidentally placed on the wrong end of the 

 plate, so that the base of the tooth is uppermost.) 



FREDERICK McCor. 



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