MAMMALIA 



PRIMATES. 



Remains of Primates have been found in Pliocene Beds in the 

 South of France (Gervais, Palseont. Frangaise, Edit. 2, p. 10, 1855) 

 and in Italy (Forsyth Major, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., Vol. XLI., 

 p. I, 1885), and have been referred to the genera Macacus and 

 Semnopithecus, No examples of this group, however, have been 

 recorded from British Pliocene strata. The specimen to which 

 Sir Richard Owen gave the name of Macacus pliocenus (Brit. 

 Foss, Mamm., page xlvi., 1846) was obtained from the Pleisto- 

 cene deposit of Grays, Essex, which at that time was called 

 " Newer Pliocene," Brickearth. 



CARNIVORA. 



Genus PELIS, Linnaeus. 



Mr. J. Gunn, in his " Geology of Norfolk," printed in" White's 

 Gazetteer" (p. 11, 1883 Edition), gives the "Wild Cat" among 

 other species from the Norwich Crag, as being in " the late Mr. 

 Middleton's collection," but I have been unable to get any clue 

 to the specimen on which this determination was based, or to 

 find any corroborative evidence for the occurrence of the species 

 in the Norwich Crag, and, although it is quoted by Messrs. R. 

 and A. Bell, . on Mr. Gunn's authority (Proc. Geol. Assoc., 

 Vol. II., p. 212, 1872), I do not feel justified in retaining it as a 

 Crag species. Prof. E. Ray Lankester (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 

 Vol. XXVI., p. 511, 1870) alluded to two feline upper carnaasial 

 teeth, one in Mr. Canham's collection (now in the Museum at 

 Ipswich) and the other in Mr. Baker's collection (now in the 

 Reed collection, York Museum). Both these teeth are now 

 referred to Hyana striata, the one at Ipswich (Plate I., fig. 9) 

 having been figured by Mr. R. Lydekker (Quart. Journ. Geol. 

 Soc., Vol. XLIL, p. 365, 1886). 



Mr. R. Fitch, of Norwich, has a very much worn feline tooth 

 (Plate I., fig. 2) from the Norwich Crag of Thorpe, which seems 

 to be the specimen alluded to as Felis pardoides in Prof. Prest- 



