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THREE EXTINCT SPECIES OF ELEPHANT. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES. 
PLATE XLIV. 
Fig. 1. Symphysis of mandible of the largest Maltese Fossil Elephant (Elephas 
(p. 231). 
Fig. 2. Neural spine of the seventeenth or eighteenth dorsal <ertebra of the same 
species (p. 233). 
Figs. 3, 4. The outer and inner aspects of a very young exoccipital bone of the same 
(p. 233). 
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PLATE XLV: 
Fig. 0. Fragment of shaft of femur (young) of the largest species, and not improbably 
belonging to the same individual as that which afforded the exoccipital 
(p. 235). 
Fig. 6. Shaft of femur of mature LZ. melitensis (p. 247). 
Fig. 7. Fragment of neural spine of dorsal vertebra of ditto (p. 241). 
Fig. 8. Portion of second rib (right side) of ditto (p. 241). 
PLATE XLVI. 
Fig. 9. Seventh cervical vertebra of E. melitensis (p. 238). 
Figs. 10, 10a. Sixth or seventh dorsal vertebra (p. 240). 
Figs. 11, 11a. Second or third lumbar vertebra (p. 241). 
PLATE XLVII. 
Fig. 12. Portion of atlas of E. melitensis (p. 238). 
Fig. 13. Portion of ascending ramus of mandible of ditto (p. 236). 
Fig. 14. Upper surface of astragalus of E. falconeri (p. 268). 
Fig. 14 (cs). Dorsal aspect of fragment of pein referred doubtfully to 2. falconeri 
(p. 254). 
Fig. 14 (dis)*. View of the glenoid fossa. 
Fig. 15. Posterior view of very young tibia, probably of E. melitensis. 
Fig. 15a. Proximal articular surface. 
Figs. 16, 16@. Anterior and posterior views of a foetal tibia (p. 281) 
Fig. 17. Anterior view of an older tibia (pp. 281, 282). 
Figs. 18, 19. ‘Two fcetal radii (p. 280). 
Figs. 20, 21. Two feetal tibive (pp. 281, 282). 
