THE MALTESE FOSSIL ELEPHANTS. 15 
the two stumps sticking in the jaw, as just recorded, besides a scar on the enamel of the 
anterior talon, internally, 0-4 inch in breadth; but the most suggestive part of the speci- 
men is the succeeding alveolus, in which the collines @ of the last milk-molar lie horizon- 
tally, furnishing a maximum breadth of one inch. The crown of the penultimate tooth is 
not sufficiently worn to show the pattern. The lower ramus No. 90 (fig. 2) has been 
broken across in front just clear of the tooth, which, however, has a deep scar on the 
enamel made by the antepenultimate. ‘The last ridges are not perfectly consolidated. 
The entire length of the crown is 1°8 inch, in which there are seven instead of six 
ridges in the upper tooth. The last milk-molar @ is seen in situ, showing a breadth ot 
colline of about 0-8 inch. As in the upper the antepenultimate and the first milk- 
tooth also were possibly in wear at the same time, seeing that the digitations of the 
first four ridges only areinvaded. ‘Lhe colline @ is nearly entire and well shown behind, 
presenting dimensions equal to those of No. 44 (PI. IV. fig. 3), which appears to belong 
to the last milk-molar of this pygmy form of elephant. 
Other teeth referable to A series are seen in my collection in the British Museum. 
For example, No. 1, holding seven ridges, is an entire upper molar, 1:7 inch in 
length, with a crown like figs. 1 & 2, just coming into wear, whilst No. 7 is more 
attrited, and No. 8 is of the lower jaw, with only the first three ridges slightly worn. 
All these teeth demonstrate the presence of an upper and lower penultimate milk- 
molar, holding seven ridges, or five plates and two talons. 
Intermediate in size between the above and B Series are a number of small lower 
teeth, somewhat larger than the former, with figmentary posterior talons raising the 
ridge-formula by one ridgelet. They differ, however, in no other particulars, and 
may be regarded as belonging to A type, with the usual variety of an additional 
ridge. 
The difficulty in deciding what should be called a plate and talon is shown in the 
lower molar, No. 75 (Pl. I. fig. 9). Here the first ridge is quite independent of the 
second, and the last is a mere triangular splint attached to the seventh ridge. Thus 
this molar might be said to contain seven plates and a posterior talon in a space of 
1:7 inch. 
The rhomboidal tendency of the disks is here also apparent, with slight crimping 
about the middle; but the crown is not quite half-worn. 
Conditions precisely the same as in fig. 9 are shown by the ridge-formule in Nos. 3, 
4, 6, & 10, which represent lower molars in various stages of wear, the half-worn crown 
of No. 6 displaying disks in no way distinct from those of Pl. I. fig. 8... These molars gra- 
dually increase in length up to No. 9 (fig. 15), which is 2 inches in length, with its seventh 
plate convex, and a triangular figment at @ constituting a posterior talon. A similar 
specimen of a lower molar is shown by No. 62, which holds seven ridges in 1°8 inch, 
neither of which, however, might be considered other than plates, the part of the 
surface of the seventh ridge which gave rise to the little ridgelet in the preceding 
