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which they arc chiefly composed. Professor Gaudry concludes that 

 the rock is of Cretaceous age, and therefore the oldest sedimentary 

 deposit in the island. The seven caves discovered were all on the 

 southern side of the range, between the Aghirdhir Pass and the 

 village of Kythraea, in a low broken line of cliffs parallel with the 

 main ridge. These are called the Kerynia caves and are named : — 

 (1) Coutzaventis ; (2) Haghios Chrysostomos ; (3) Anoyero Spelios ; 

 (4) Dikomo Mandra ; (5) Haghios Elias ; (6) the Elephant Deposit ; 

 (7) the Western Cave. 



Most of these caves have, by reason of long atmospheric erosion, 

 partially or wholly disappeared, leaving the stalagmitic flooring 

 containing mammalian remains unprotected and exposed often at a 

 considerable distance from the face of the cliffs. But although many 

 of them are now almost obliterated by the falling in of the roof and 

 walls, the author points out that wherever this has happened the 

 limits of the floor are sharply defined by the hard ossiferous deposit 

 and the stalagmitic floor. In close proximity are caves still pre- 

 served containing precisely similar deposits. 



The fauna of the caves is comparatively scanty, the only other 

 important extinct form besides the dwarf elephant and hippo- 

 potamus being a new species of genet (Genetta plesictoides), described 

 in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society.' — From the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Royal Society, June 9, 1904. (Communicated by the 

 Author.) 



Further Note on the liemains of Elephas Cypriotes, Bate, from a 

 Cave-deposit in Cyprus. Hy DoROXHr M. A. Bate. 



This paper is a continuation of one already published* " On the 

 Discovery of a Pigmy Elephant in the Pleistocene of Cyprus," and 

 enters into a detailed description of the teeth of this small probos- 

 cidean whose remains are now in the British Museum of Xatural 

 History. 



The collection includes incisors, milk-molars, and permanent 

 molars. Several of the latter still retain their position in the jaws, 

 and, in some instances, the teeth of both sides of the same indi^^dual 

 were found. 



The permanent incisor tusks of two forms, presumably belonging 

 to males and females, were found. They dift'er from the same 

 teeth of the Maltese dwarf elephants in being considerably com- 

 j>ressed laterally. The largest specimen measures 29*7 cm. along 

 the outside of the curve, with a maximum diameter of 3"7 cm. 



Of the upper cheek-teeth the third and fourth of the milk-series 

 as well as the three permanent molars are described in detail. 

 There was a small third milk-molar (2 mm.) implanted by a single 

 root, but no specimen was collected. 



* Read before the Royal Society, May 7, 1903. 



