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being more or less completely lost through the inflation. The 
meatus is directed downwards and backwards from without 
to within, the plane of backward direction being more oblique 
to a line drawn at right angles to a median antero-posterior 
line on the skull than in the other two allied forms. The 
zygomata, even in the old specimens, are much thinner and 
more slender generally along their whole length. 
Teeth.— The upper molar is larger than in J/. meles meles, 
and of about the length of MW. meles marianensis, but is 
narrower in proportion to its length, exhibiting in a number 
of specimens a mean ratio of 1 to 1:27 instead of 1 to 1:16-1:18 
as in M. meles meles or 1 to 1°22 as in M. meles marianensis *. 
It further shows a marked bend or constriction midway along 
the inner edge between the inner anterior and_ posterior 
cusps, so that the least width across the tooth between the 
inner and outer anterior and posterior cusps is, on an average, 
about 1 mm. less than in the other two allied types. 
(For comparative measurements, see table on opposite page.) 
Dimensions of the type (as measured in the flesh) :— 
Head and body 660 mm. ; tail 132 ; hind foot 105; ear 50. 
Skull: greatest length 133-0; condylo-basal length 127-0; 
basal length 115°5; zygomatic breadth 78:0; interorbital 
breadth 28°4; palatal length 69°3; mastoid breadth 61:0 ; 
width of brain-case 54°6. 
Upper molar: length along inner margin 15°4 ; breadth 
across the anterior cusps 12°1 ; least width across tooth at 
constriction between anterior and posterior cusps 11:2, 
Hab. Scalita, 30 miles 8. of Trebizond, North-eastern Asia 
Minor. Alt. cire. 3000’. 
Type. Young adult male. B.M. no. 6.3.6.219. Original 
number 2208. Collected by A. Robert, 2nd Dec., 1905, and 
presented to the Museum by Oldtield Thomas, Esq. 
Other specimens examined.—Three, all from same locality. 
Head and body 710, 660, 600; tail 152, 125, 110; hind 
foot 100, 80, 100; ear 40, 50, 43 respectively, measured in 
millimetres. Skulls all exhibit the typical characteristics, 
This badger, though similar in colouring to the European 
forms, is immediately distinguishable by its large and inflated 
auditory bulle and by the size and shape of the upper molar. 
The following table of comparative measurements with a 
number of specimens of AZ. meles meles and Md. meles marian- 
ensis may be of interest :— 
* In this respect it approaches M. meles canescens (Blauf.) and M. meles 
minor (Sat.), of which the ratio is about 1 to 1:35, but the general 
colouring is different and it is a much larger animal. 
