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slender, converging pedicles. Ascending rami of premaxillae shorter 

 than nasals. No supraorbital ridges or frontal glands. Upper 

 canines of male long, but not everted. A distinct frontal tuft 

 of hair. Other characters as in Cervulus. 



This genus (which has also received the name of Lophotragus) is 

 represented by a small Deer (Fig. 127) from China of about the 

 same size as the Indian Muntjac. The male has minute simple 

 antlers and very large canine teeth. There are no supraorbital 



FIG. 127. Male of Elaphodus michianus. From Sclater Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 273. 



glands, nor is there a tufted gland on the metatarsus. The limbs 

 have the same peculiarities as in Cervulus, but the mesocuneiform 

 may also ankylose with the ectocuneiform, and traces of the nieta- 

 carpals may remain. The hair is coarse and somewhat quill-like. 



Cermis. 1 The great majority of the Deer of the. Old World may 

 be included in this large genus, which is one not e&sy of definition. 

 The antlers of the male are, however, large, and two or three times 

 the length of the head, and may be either rounded or palmate ; the 

 canines are never large ; the ectocuneiform of the tarsus remains 

 distinct from the naviculo-cuboid ; the lateral digits are represented 

 by their phalanges ; and the skull does not carry prominent frontal 

 ridges. Vertebrae : C 7, D 13, L 6, S 4, C 11-14. The size of the 



1 Linn. Syst. Nat. 12th ed. vol. i. p. 92 (1766). 



