56 Mr. E. R. Lankester on a new Species of Hyzena 
transversely in the middle of the elytron, the space anterior and 
posterior to this large spot being nearly free from markings. 
Long. 8-4 lin. 3 @. 
Ega; less common than the type*. 
[To be continued. ] 
* 
VII.—On a new Species of Hyena from the Red Crag of Suffolk. 
By E. Ray Lanxester. 
[Plate VIII. ] 
Mosr of the terrestrial Mammals of the Red Crag strata in 
England are known by few and fragmentary specimens, consist- 
ing either of teeth or portions of sea-worn jaws. The species at 
present recognized amount to thirteen; they are as follows, and 
are nearly all identical with species from Miocene beds on the 
continent of Europe :—Rhinoceros Schletermacheri, Kaup; Ta- 
pirus priscus, Kaup; Sus paleocherus, Kaup; Sus antiquus, 
Kaup; Equus, sp., Owen; Hipparion, sp., Owen; Mastodon 
angustidens, Owen; Cervus dicranoceros, Kaup; Megaceros, sp., 
Owen; Felis pardoides, Owen; Pterodon, sp., Owen; Canis, sp., 
Owen; Ursus, sp., Owen. 
The relations of land and water at the time of the deposition 
of the Red Crag it is not my intention to discuss, although the 
presence of a Miocene land-fauna associated with marine Mol- 
lusca of an eminently arctic type may have some important 
bearings on that subject. Attention is merely drawn to the fact 
as showing the necessity of a comparison with Miocene species 
in attempting to identify any apparently new Mammalia from 
the older Crags of Suffolk. 
Figs. 5, 6, 7, Pl. VIIL., are drawings of a tooth belonging to 
a species of Hyzena which the author obtained from the Red 
* The following Rio-Janeiro species belongs also to section 2 of the 
genus Sporetus. It has a strong resemblance to Probatius ludicrus, and is 
confounded with it in some collections :— 
S. probatioides. Oblongus. sive ellipticus, purpureo-fuscus, sericeus, 
cinereo maculatus. Caput fuscum, sericeum. Antenne longissime, 
breviter setose, purpureo-fusce, articulis (tribus basalibus, 7™° et 9° 
exceptis) basi griseis. Thorax convexus; spinis lateralibus minutis 
mox pone medium sitis; dorso fusco angulis et margine posticis ob- 
scure cinereo maculatis. Elytra apice subsinuato-truncata, angulis 
obtusis, dorso nigro-setosa, punctata, purpureo-fusca, sericea, guttis 
sex basalibus, maculis duabus lateralibus (una magna ante medium, 
altera parva pone medium) et signaturis apicalibus cinereis. Corpus 
subtus griseum. Pedes subelongati, obscure castanei, griseo annulati, 
haud setosi; femoribus valde clavatis. Maris segmento apicali abdo- 
minis emarginato. Long. 43 ln. ¢. Hab. Rio Janeiro, a Dom. 
Squires lecto. i 
