CEKVIDfi. 117 



The generic position of the following form is not determined. 

 Hub. S. America. 



37676. The greater part of a shed antler ; from the Pleistocene of 

 Buenos Ayres. This specimen is of extremely small size, 

 greatly palmatod at the base, and giving off four tynes, of 

 which one is broken. It is unlike any existing form. 



Bravard Collection. Purchased, 1854. 



Genus CERVULUS, Blainville'. 



Syn. Styloceros, Hamilton Smith 2 . 

 Prox, Ogilby 3 . 



In this genus the antlers are simply forked, the division rising 

 immediately or at some distance above the burr, which is placed on 

 a long pedicle ; the dentition is hypsodont. The antlered form of 

 the brachydont genus Palceomeryx (P. furcatus) possesses antlers of a 

 similar type ; and it is probable that there is a complete transition 

 between the two genera. The reference of the two species noticed 

 below to the present genus is provisional. 



Cervulus (?) dicranoceros (Kaup *). 

 Syn. Cervus dicranoceros, Kaup 5 . 

 Cervus anoceros, Kaup 6 . 

 Cervus trigonoceros, Kaup 7 . 



The writer follows Boyd-Dawkins (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. 

 xxxvi. p. 403) in uniting the above-mentioned three forms. Riiti- 

 meyer, in the ' Natiirliche Geschichte der Hirsche ' (Abh. schweiz. 

 pal. Ges. 1883), part 2, p. 102, observes that they may belong to 

 Palceomeryx ; but the evidence of the dentition is required before 

 the point can be determined. The species is distinguished from 

 P. furcatus by the longer interval between the burr and the forking 

 of the antler. 

 Nab. Germany. 



M. 2318. Cast of the lower part of an antler. The original, which 

 is the type, is from the Upper Miocene of EoDelsheim, 

 Hesse Darmstadt, and is figured by Kaup in the Arcmv 

 fur Mineralogie,' vol. vi. pi. iv. fig. 9, and in the ' Us, Poss. 

 d. Darmstadt,' pi. xxiv. fig. 3 c. No history. 



1 Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, 1816, p. 74. 



a In Griffith's ' Animal Kingdom,' vol. v. p. 319 (1827). 



3 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 135. 



4 Archiv fur Mineralogie, vol. vi. p. 219 (1833), Cervus. 



' Loc.cit. e Ibid. p. 217. 7 Ibid. p. 221. 



