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It is noticeable, however, that in Pl. XVIII. fig. 4, there is a protuberance at the apex 
of the bone internally, which is not nearly so prominent in the preceding lunaria. The 
determined hollowing of the upper surface of this specimen resembles that seen in 
full-grown individuals of the Asiatic—to wit, the Sumatran. The dimensions of fig. 4 
are—maximum length 3 inches, breadth 2-5, thickness 1-4, radial facet 2°2, ulnar facet 
1:3 by 0:6, cuneiform facet 0-9 by 0:3, lower magnal 2°3 by 2:1. The ulnar facet is 
oblique. 
4, The diminutive lunare Pl. XXI. fig. 1 will be described with the other members 
of the same foot; suffice it at present to say that in the particulars just stated it is of 
precisely the same type as Pl. XVIII. fig. 4. 
CunElrorm.—Of this important element of the carpus my collection affords no less 
than seven specimens, which differ considerably in size, and for the most part in 
characters. 
A Series.—1. The largest is represented in Pl. XVIII. fig. 2. It is a right cunei- 
form from Gandia Fissure, so prolific of the remains of the largest form of Elephant. 
The extremity is wanting, including nearly all the pisiform and external portions of the 
ulnar and unciform surfaces; the body, however, is preserved, and gives the following 
admeasurements—extreme breadth 3-1 inches, thickness 2 inches, ulnar facet (antero- 
posterior) 2°3 inches, upper Iunare 1°5 inch, lower lunare 1-6 by 0°5 inch, antero-pos- 
terior of unciform 2°7 inches. This cuneiform, although of the opposite side, and from 
a different situation, might, as regards dimensions, have belonged to the owner of the 
lunare Pl. XVIII. fig. 1. 
2. The left cuneiform shown in Pl. XVIII. fig. 5, although considerably smaller 
than the above, is, as far as I can make out, identical in character, and may therefore 
be supposed to belong to a much smaller individual of the same form. It has lost 
about the same parts as in fig. 2; but the following measurements are procurable: 
the extreme breadth is 2°4 inches, thickness 14 inch, ulnar facet (antero-posterior) 1°8 
inch, upper lunare 1-1 inch, lower lunare 1:4 by 0°3 inch, unciform facet (antero-pos- 
terior diameter) 2-1 inches. 
3. Another, but still more mutilated, fragment of a left cuneiform from Gandia 
Fissure, of the exact dimensions of the last, completes the list of specimens attributable 
to the same type. In comparison with the same bone in recent species, figs. 2 & 5 are 
relatively much’ thicker, more especially at the external margin of the pisiform facet, 
where the maximum grossness usually obtains; and seemingly the latter is greater in 
the Asiatic than in the African. The above have narrow upper and lower articular sur- 
faces, with large concavities and conyexities, as obtains also in the Asiatic and not, to 
all appearance, in the African. The lunare facets, like all the small lateral attachments 
of the foot-bones, are subject to considerable irregularities, sometimes occupying the 
entire margin, in others a portion only. The latter is the case in these fossils; but in 
the African (708 h, B.M.) and the cuneiform of an old Asiatic Elephant (no. 2543) in 
