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VIL Description of a new Genus of the Class Mammalia, from 

 the Himalaya Chain of Hills between Nepanl and the Snowy 

 Mountains. By Major-General Hardwicke, F.R.S., and F.L.S. 



Read November 6, 1821. 



Char. G ex. Dentés pri mores utrinque sex, in eaclem série 

 collocati, superiorum latérales majores, basi gradu inte- 

 riore obliquo aucti, inferiorum latérales incrassati, apice 

 latiores, externe oblique truncati, intermedii duo paululum 

 breviores. Laniarii primoribus multo longiores, superiores 

 conici recti, inferiores subarcuati, oblique patentes, utrin- 

 que pagina exteriore sulcis duobus longitudinalibus exarati. 

 Molares utrinque quinque, série recta collocati, gradatim 

 ampliores ad quartum usque: supra primus intervallo brevi 

 ab laniariis remotus, majusculus, acie conoideA procera 

 postice gradu abbreviato praxlita, latere interiore ad basin 

 marginatus ; secundus subincrassatus, cuspidibus tribus la- 

 teralibus, media elatiore, duabus intermediis brevioribus, 

 una interiore simplici minima, omnibus acutis, conicis aut 

 compressis ; tertius multicuspidatus, cuspidibus exteriori ■• 

 bus suberectis, série eadem dispositis, intermedia majore 

 elatiore, interioribus duabus anticis conicis, basi tumidis, 

 posticâ minore, cuspidibus lateralibus adpressâ, omnibus 

 suboblique truncatis, apicibus marginatis, circularibus aut 

 undulatis concavis, tuberculo interiore minimo abbreviato 

 margini basilari apposito ; quartus maximus multicuspida- 

 tus, cuspidibus duabus exterioribus, anticâ tripartita ela- 



voL. XV. Y tiore, 



