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UNGULATA. 



Rhinoceros blanfordi, Lydekker '. 



Syn. Aceratherium blanfordi, Lydekker 2 . 



In this species the upper time molars have a " crochet," a very 

 large " antecrochet," a slight " buttress," a tubercle at the entrance 

 to the median valley, and an incomplete cingulum ; in the premolars 

 the cingulum is complete. An imperfect mandibular ramus is 

 represented in the accompanying woodcut (fig. 18). 



Fig. 18. 



m. 1 pm. 4 pm. 3. 



Rhwwceros blanfordi, Lyd. The right ramus of the mandible of an immatur 

 individual ; from the Lower Siwaliks of the Bugti Hills, N.W. frontier of 

 India. Indian Museum, Calcutta. (From the ' Palaeontologia Indica.') 



Hob. Persia 3 , N.W. India, Baluchistan, and China. It was first 

 recorded from the latter country by Koken 4 , who designates the 

 Chinese form as var. hipparionum. 



28583. The first left upper true molar, in a well-worn condition 

 from the Pliocene (?) of the south of China. This 

 specimen agrees almost exactly with the slightly less worn 

 m. 1 in the jaw figured by the present writer in the 

 ' Palaeontologia Indica,' ser. 10, vol. iii. pi. i. fig. 1 ; 

 there are, however, three fossettes. 



Presented by D. Hanbury, Esq., 1853. 



28583 a. The inner half of the second right upper true molar ; from 

 China. This specimen agrees precisely with m. 2 in the 

 figure quoted above. 



Presented by D. Hanbury, Esq., 1853. 



1 Paljeontologia Indica (Mem. Greol. Surv. Ind.), ser. 10, vol. iii. p. 2 

 (1884), Aceratherium. 2 Loc. cit. 



3 See a paper by the present writer on Persian Mammals (Quart. Journ. Geol. 

 Soc. vol. xlii. 1886). 



4 Pal. Abhand. vol. iii. pt. 2, p. 18 (1885). 



