264 MR. BUSK ON THE REMAINS OF 
character between the pelvis of the Indian and African Elephants has been already fully 
referred to (p. 242). Above the acetabulum is a large portion of the ilium with its anterior 
curved margin, extending to a height of more than three inches above the upper border of 
the acetabulum. The general character of the bone is that of a fully mature animal ; 
and, from its brown colour, condition, and comparatively large size, it corresponds very 
exactly with the larger and older portions of the humerus and ulna already described 
and referred to an individual of larger size and more mature age than that to which the 
shaft of the humerus and the more perfect portion of the ulna probably belonged. 
The dimensions of the bone, so far as they are afforded in the specimen, are as 
under :—Width of acetabulum (inside) 2’°1, length 273; radius of concavity 
about 11. The cotyloid notch is about 0-5 in width; and the channel continued from 
it on the anterior surface of the body of the ischium ceases immediately beyond the 
cotyloid border. The width of the contracted part of the ilium, above the acetabulum 
is 1-8. The body of the ischium is unfortunately broken off obliquely on the outer 
side; but about 1-25 of the obturator border remains. This border is acute, and presents 
about 0-5 below the summit of the obturator foramen a slight elevation representing 
what I have termed in a previous part of this paper the ischial obturator spine, which is 
so strongly developed usually in the Indian Elephant, as well as inthe Mammoth. The 
length remaining of the pubic border of the foramen is too short to exhibit any trace 
of the corresponding pubic obturator projection; but sufficient is left of the ischial 
border to show the important difference in form between that part and the corresponding 
part in E. melitensis, which in that respect, as before pointed out, more resembles the 
African than the Indian species. Another particular in which the present specimen 
approaches the Indian and differs from the African type is in the comparatively great 
- width of the cotyloid notch, which, as is well known, is much narrower in the African 
acetabulum. The internal or pelvic surface of the ilium is smooth and equably concave, 
and the outer is also smooth and evenly convex. Posteriorly the triangular surface of 
bone forming the back of the acetabulum is much less concave from side to side than 
in either the Indian or African species; and the two borders consequently are indistinct 
and rounded. And, corresponding with this general flatness of the surface in this part, 
the excavation continued upwards from the obturator foramen is extremely shallow. 
11,12. Femur. 
The collection contains at least three well-recognizable portions of the femur of EF. 
falconeri, belonging to individuals of widely differing ages. ‘Two of these specimens are 
shown in Pl. L. figs. 29,29 a, & 30. The latter of these is the upper portion of the shaft 
of aleft femur, to all appearance of at least tolerably mature age; and it corresponds in 
all respects as regards colour and condition with the shaft of the humerus (fig. 26). The 
fragment measures 3-4 in length; and it is broken irregularly across at the upper end, 
just above the inferior termination of the posttrochanteric fossa. At the lower end it 
