PACHYDERMATA. 109 



A NOPLOTHERITJM . 



It presents the most singular affinities with the various tribes of thePachy- 

 dermata, and approximates in some respects to the order of the Ruminantia. 

 The bones of this genus have hitherto only been found in the gypsum 

 quarries near Paris. We have already ascertained five species. 



The ordinary Pachydermata which have not cloven feet, compre- 

 hend, in the first place, three genera, very similar to each other in 

 their grinders, but their incisors vary. 



RHINOCEROS, Lin. 



The species of this genus, in this particular, even vary among themselves. 

 They are large animals; each foot is divided into three toes, and the bones 

 of the nose, which are very thick and moulded into a sort of arch, support 

 a solid horn which adheres to the skin, and is composed of a fibrous and 

 horny substance, resembling agglutinated hairs. They are naturally stupid 

 and ferocious, frequent marshy places, and feed on herbs and branches of 

 trees. They are found in India, Java, Africa and Sumatra. 



Rh. indicus, Cuv. (The Rhinoceros of India.) It has but oneiiorn, and 

 the skin is remarkable for the deep folds into which it is thrown behind and 

 across the shoulders, and before and across the thighs. It inhabits the East 

 Indies, and chiefly beyond the Ganges. 



Bh. africanus, Cuv. (The Rhinoceros of Africa. ) Furnished with two 

 horns; has no fold of of the skin, nor any incisor teeth, its molars occupying 

 nearly the whole length of the jaw. 



Various fossil species are found in Siberia, Tuscany and Germany. 



HYRAX, Herm. 



The Damans, as they are termed, have long been placed among the Roden- 

 tia, on account of their small size; if, however, we examine them closely, we 

 shall find, the horn excepted, that they are Rhinoceroses in miniature, at least 

 they have similar molars; but their upper jaw is furnished with two strong 

 incisors curved downwards, and at an early age with two very small canini; 

 the lower one has four incisors, but no canini. 



PALJEOTHERIUM, Cuv. 



This is also a lost genus, with the same grinders as the two preceding, six 

 incisors, and two canini in each jaw, like the Tapirs, and three visible toes 

 to each foot; they had also, like the Tapirs, a short fleshy proboscis. We 

 discovered the bones of this genus pele-mele with those of the Anoplothe- 

 rium in the gypsum quarries near Paris. They also exist in many other 

 parts of France. Eleven or twelve species are known already. 



LOPHIODON, Cuv. 

 Is another lost genus, which appears to be closely allied to the preceding 



