PAL^.OTHEBIUM MINUS. 323 



OF this elegant species, the freshwater eocene deposits 

 of the Isle of Wight have furnished several specimens 

 more entire and better preserved than those of the larger 

 Palseotheres. The collection submitted to my examina- 

 nation by the Rev. Darwin Fox, in 1838,* included a 

 portion of the base of the skull, the right ramus of the lower 

 jaw with all the molars, except the first small spurious one 

 (fig. 117), the proximal end of the right radius, and the 

 shaft and distal end of the right tibia. 



Fig. 117. 



Portion of lower jaw, nat. size. Seafield, Isle of Wight. 



Mr. Wickham Flower, F.Gr.S., possesses the shaft and 

 distal articular end of the humerus of a species of Palseo- 

 therium, of the size of P. crassum, which was obtained from 

 the eocene clay at Hordwell Cliff, Hampshire : the spe- 

 cimen is black and heavily impregnated with mineral 

 matter. A lower molar tooth, of apparently the same 

 species of Palseothere, was discovered at the same place. 



A single incisor, apparently of the lower jaw of the 

 Paleeotherium medium, illustrates the identity in form and 

 structure of the cutting teeth, as of the canines and molars 

 of the species of the freshwater eocene deposits of the Isle 



* Geological Transactions, vol. vi., second series, p. 41. 



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