760 MR. A. H. GARROD ON LOPHOTRAGU* MlCHIANUS. [Nov. 21, 



obligingly allowed me to remote the cranium from the skin of the 

 female that he has lent ire, which fortunately happens to be of exactly 

 the same age as the Society's male ; in other words, the median milk- 

 incisors are gone, whilst the third molars are just protruding, all the 

 milk-molars being in place. In the Society's specimen the frontal 

 pedestals are fairly long, but without any antlers at their extremities. 

 Their bases are slightly further from one another than in the Moupin 

 male ; and there is a second slight difference from both it and the 

 female, which is, that just at the root of the ascending orbital process 

 of the malar bone the ring of the orbit does not become ossified 

 upwards so as to reduce its size by the formation of a shallow lamina 

 above the masseteric ridge. This peculiarity may also be expressed 

 by saying that the surface of origin of the masseter muscle extends 

 upwards as far as the margin of the orbit in the Ningpo male, whilst 

 in those from the more western locality it ceases some distance 

 below it. But it must be noted that the Ningpo specimen died in 

 very bad condition, the bones being spongy and ill-marked*, whilst 

 the others were shot wild. In it, strangely enough, there is also an 

 abnormality with which I am not at all acquainted. It is that the 

 malar bones on both sides, instead of being single, are made up of 

 two independent parts, an orbital and a zygomatic, with the suture 

 longitudinal and nearly straight, extending from the anterior extre- 

 mity of the zygomatic process of the temporal bone to the posterior 

 inferior part of the large crumenal depression. 



Sir Victor Brooke f, in his paper on the Cervvli, has drawn 

 attention to the very peculiar distribution of the ankyloses in the 

 tarsus of that family, he having demonstrated that in it the external 

 and middle cuneiform bones blend with the naviculo-cuboid to form 

 a single bone. The same condition exactly exists in Elaphodus 

 cephalophus, the innermost cuneiform bone remaining free. But, 

 strange to relate, in my specimen of Michie's Deer, on both sides, 

 this internal cuneiform bone is completely anchylosed with the 

 metatarsus, a further specialization than is found in any other 

 ruminant, so far as I can make out. 



In Michie's Deer no trace of the lateral metacarpal rudiments 

 could be detected. It possesses thirteen pairs of ribs, six lumbar 

 vertebrae, six ankylosed sacrals, and nine caudals, making forty-one 



* The following are the measurements of the skull of the Ningpo male, side 

 by side with which those of the male (adult) Moupin specimen arc given, from 

 M. Milne-Edwards' s figure : — 



Ningpo Moupin 



spec. spec. 



in. in. 



Extreme length of skull Of 7}J 



Extreme breadth from zygoma to zygoma 3-^ 3 T 7 ff 



Interval between inner sides of frontal pedestals ... 1^§ 1J 



Extreme length of nasal bones 2 T 3 2 .' 



Breadth of facial plane opposite lacrymal foramina 1|^ 2^ 



Mandible from angle to incisor margin f>£ 6? 



Extreme length of praniaxilla 1§§ 2/,, 



Extreme intermolar breadth 1.1 



t P. Z. S. 1874, p. 33. 



