THE MALTESE FOSSIL ELEPHANTS, 67 
the breadth of the radial facet is 1 inch. The distal articular surface in this specimen 
differs from any of the recent and the next specimen in the following particulars :—The 
conjoined surfaces for the trapezoid, trapezium, and magnum form a single rounded 
facet, which is 2°1 inches in the antero-posterior diameter to 1 inch in length. 
Unfortunately the antero-posterior measurement is somewhat vitiated in consequence 
of the posterior angle being broken off; but I apprehend it was nearly, if not quite, 2:1 
inches; and there being no line of demarcation between the facets, it is impossible to 
define each. The pronounced eminence on the lunare or external aspect, and its large 
articulating surface, being absent, we might surmise that this scaphoid, owing to the 
diminished size of the magnal facet, was more erect than obtains in both recent 
species and in the Mammoth. I find, however, on comparing this surface in old and 
young bones of the Asiatic that the relative differences between the length and breadth 
are reversed, so that, as a character, the above is not to be relied on. The upper 
lunare facet is too much abraded for description; the lower lunare, however, is well 
defined anteriorly, forming by its sharp and prominent angle an articular surface 1:8 by 
06 inch. The maximum thickness of fig. 10 is 1 inch. 
Now, as regards its connexion with recent species, in outline it is like the African 
and Mammoth’s; but in the form and direction of the radial surface it seems more like 
that of the Asiatic and Mammoth; whilst it differs from the three in the contour and 
extent of the distal facets. ; 
2, An almost perfect right scaphoid from Benghisa Gap is shown in woodcut fig. 4, 
which represents a smaller Elephant, but still an adult. It differs from fig. 10 in the 
following characters :—The radial surface (7) has the horizontal aspect of the African ; 
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