ON LOPHOTRAGUS MICHIANUS. 383 
tially from the Moupin specimens. Although there are exquisite 
figures in the “ Recherches pour servir 4l’histoire Naturelle des Mam- 
miféres ”* of the skull of the adult male, M. Milne-Edwards has most 
obligingly allowed me to remove the cranium from the skin of the Page 760. 
female that he has lent me, which fortunately happens to be of exactly 
the same age as the Society’s male; in other words, the median milk- 
incisors are gone, whilst the third molars are just protruding, all the 
milk-molars being in place. In the Society’s specimen the frontal 
pedestals are fairly long, but without any antlers at their extremities. 
Their bases are slightly further from one another than in the Moupin 
male; and there is a second slight difference from both it and the 
female, which is, that just at the root of the ascending orbital process 
of the malar bone the ring of the orbit does not become ossified 
upwards so as to reduce its size by the formation of a shallow lamina 
above the masseteric ridge. This peculiarity may also be expressed 
by saying that the surface of origin of the masseter muscle extends 
upwards as far as the margin of the orbit in the Ningpo male, whilst 
in those from the more western locality it ceases some distance below 
it. But it must be noted that the Ningpo specimen died in very bad 
condition, the bones being spongy and ill-marked,+ whilst the others 
were shot wild. In it, strangely enough, there is also an abnormality 
with which I am not at all acquainted. It is that the malar bones on 
~ both sides, instead of being single, are made up of two independent 
parts, an orbital and a zygomatic, with the suture longitudinal and 
nearly straight, extending from the anterior extremity of the zygo- 
matic process of the temporal bone to the posterior inferior part of the 
large crumenal depression. 
Sir Victor Brooke,t in his paper on the Cervuli, has drawn atten- 
tion to the very peculiar distribution of the ankyloses in the tarsus of 
* Atlas, Pls. LX VI and LXVII. 
+ The following are the measurements of the skull of the Ningpo male, side 
by side with which those of the male (adult) Moupin specimen are given, from 
M. Milne-Edwards’s figure :— 
Ningpo Moupin 
spec. spec. 
in. in. 
Extreme length of skull.. et oR A ee wet GE as 
Extreme breadth from in to inuiie coves Spy us 
Interval between inner sides of frontal pedestals . --- 133 1i 
Extreme length of nasal bones . soe 255 23 
Breadth of facial plane Spades lachieyitad ibuittin -- gh 235 
Mandible from angle to incisor margin .............. 5% 64 
Extreme length of premaxilla............+--s+.+--+ 123 235 
Extreme intermolar breadth.. ere eth wine ae 
t “ Proceedings of the Zoological Society,” 1 1874, p. 33. 
