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dorsal vertebra. There is another single facet on a head of about the same dimensions, 
besides fragments of the bedies of ribs; all are in keeping with the largest vertebra. 
V. PEtyis. 
Although abundant fragments of pelvic bones were met with in the ossiferous 
deposits, in conjunction with spinal vertebre and long bones, showing in several 
cases that entire carcasses had been introduced, it was difficult to obtain portions 
sufficiently preserved for determination. For example, the femurs from Mnaidra Gap 
(Pl. XIV. figs. 1 & 2) lay apparently in situ, as their acetabula were found close to the 
heads; and the same was observed in other situations, more particularly in Benghisa 
Gap, which produced so many remains of the smaller forms. After numerous failures, 
however, I at last succeeded in saving the portion of a left os innominatum, represented 
in Pl. XV. figs. 9 & 9a. It was found in the latter deposit in conjunction with what 
had evidently been at least the greater part of a skeleton. The fissures crossing the 
acetabulum indicate fractures occasioned during removal, and, being in a weak part of 
the bone, have more or less followed the course of the original lines of junction of its 
three elements. 
When the above has been carefully compared with the specimen figured and described 
by Mr. Busk* as portion of the pelvis of Z. falconeri, the following differences will 
appear in their dimensions. 
7 Zebbug ilium. 
SEY SEA a |(Tr.Z. 8. a = pl. 50. fig. 31.) 
inches. inches, 
Wiadthy of/acetabnlumy) (inside) ita cltcnrreya bts vare ds «dctemters)<xavenef : 2-5 21 
enp inotacetapml amen cess scams) oad erect cape cote fee 2:3 2:3 
adinsroficavaty ss eae Ci Se ee OLE fein ines heer remys 1:2 rica 
Breadthvok cotyloid, nobchies aga oxe ceylsnishiaele cde axe « aitonss 0-5 05 
Width of contracted part of ilium above the acetabulum .... 2-4 2:0 
Summary.—|. The two specimens, whilst coming close together in general dimen- 
sions, differ pointedly as regards the outline of the acetabulum, which is nearly circular 
in fig. 9, and ovoid in the Zebbug bone. 
2. The former differs from the latter, and apparently also -from recent species and 
the Mammoth, in being more globular, with its sides forming a bee-hive contraction 
towards the brim, with a beetling of the upper margin, as seen in the profile view, fig. 9a. 
3. The cotyloid notch in the African opens by a narrow fissure on to a flat surface 
close to the obturator foramen, the same parts being relatively larger in the Asiatic 
and in the two above mentioned. 
4. The contour of the obturator foramen differs in the African from that of the 
Asiatic and Mammoth in having the largest end of the oval uppermost, the reverse 
being the case in the latter and seemingly also in the fossils just described. 
* Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. vi. pp. 242, 264, and pl. 50. fig. 31. 
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