BOVIDJ8. 



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3 9588. Cranium of a young individual. This specimen is described 

 by Riitimeyer, op. cit. p. 126. 



36666. The upper portion of the cranium of a female. Noticed by 

 Riitimeyer, op. cit. p. 129. 



36675. The middle portion of the cranium of a female. Noticed by 

 Riitimeyer, op. cit. p. 126. 



39561. The nearly complete cranium of a female, without the horn- 

 cores. Noticed by Riitimeyer, op. cit. p. 126. 



Bubalus acuticornis, Riitimeyer 1 (ex Falc. & Caut., MS.). 



Syn. Probubalus acuticornis, Riitimeyer 2 . 



Amphibos acuticornis, Falconer and Cautley 3 . 

 Hemibos acuticornis, Lydekker 4 . 



In this species the cranium is narrower than in B. occipitalis, and 

 its greatest width is at the orbits, which are less protuberant, and 



Fig. 4. 



Bubalus acuticarnis. Section of base of horn-cores in three varieties of the male, 

 (From the Abh. schweiz. pal. Ges.) 



more approximated to the horn-cores than in the latter ; the frontals 

 are concave between the horn-cores. The horn-cores are mere 

 slender, more upright, and diverge to a smaller extent ; they are 



1 Denkschr. schw. Ges. Nat. vol. xxii. art. 3, p. 29 (1867). 



2 Ibid. p. 52. 



8 In 'Falconer's Palseontological Memoirs/ vol. i. p. 547 (1868). 

 4 Palseontologia Indica (Mem. Geol. Surv. Ind.), ser. 10, vol. i. p 176 (1880). 

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