PACHYDERM ATA. 101 



discovered the bones of this genus mixed with those of the anoplotherium in 

 the gypsum quarries near Paris. They also exist in many other parts of 

 France. Eleven or twelve species are known already. 



LOPHIODON, Cuvier, 



Is another lost genus, which appears to be closely allied to the preceding one. 

 Ten or twelve species have been extracted from our old fresh water formations, 

 the same as those in which the palaeotherium is found. 

 To these genera should succeed the genus 



TAPIR, Linnceus, 



In which the twenty-seven molars, before they are worn, present twa trans- 

 verse and rectilinear prominences ; in the front of each jaw are six incisors 

 and two canini, separated from thejnolars by a vacant space. 



The nose resembles a small fleshy proboscis ; there are four toes to the fore 

 feet, and three to the hind ones. For a long time but a single 

 species was known, the American Tapir. ( T. Americanus, 

 Linnaeus.) Size of a small ass ; skin brown and nearly 

 naked ; tail moderate; neck fleshy, forming a sort of crest 

 on the nape. Common in wet places, and along the rivers 

 of the warm parts of South America. The flesh is eaten. 

 Within a few years a second species has been discovered 

 in the eastern continent, which is larger than that of 

 America, of a blackish brown colour, with the back whitish 

 grey. It is found in the forests of Malacca and Sumatra. 

 A third species has lately been discovered in the Cordilleras 



the back of which is covered with hair, and the bones of 

 Head and feet of the 



Tapir. t " e nose raore elongated, and approximating somewhat to 



the palaeotherium. 



Fossil Tapirs are also scattered throughout Europe ; and among others is a 

 gigantic species, which in size must have nearly equalled the elephant; it is 

 the T. giganteus, Cuv. 



FAMILY III. 



SOLIPEDES. 



THE Solipedes are quadrupeds which have only one apparent toe, and a 

 single hoof to each foot, although under the skin, on each side of their meta- 

 tarsus and metacarpus, there are spurs representing two lateral toes. One 

 genus only is known, that of 



