Dr. Forsyth Major — M. Miocene Carnivora from France, 537 



talon, provided witli a cusp on the internal side, and separated from 

 the anterior portion of the tooth by an external and an internal cusp. 

 An isolated first upper molar probably belongs to the same 

 species. Of known forms it can only be compared with m. 1 of 

 Mydaus and the American Skunks. In general contour and some 

 other particulars it resembles more closely Mydaus, but it is provided 

 with a strong outer cingulum as in the molar of Mephitis, Spilogale, 

 and Gonepatus, and it is likewise more developed outside the antero- 

 external cusp. The two outer cusps are wide apart as in all Melidse; 

 the internal range, composed of a large middle cusp with a smaller 

 one on either side, agrees more with Mydaus, being parallel with the 

 outer range, and not crescentic as in the American Skunks. The 

 heel of the inner side is strongest on the postero-internal side of 

 the tooth, without encroaching so much on the anterior side as in 

 the Skunks. 



Measuremeuts 



Schlosser has described ^ an isolated lower first molar, from the 

 ' Pliocene ' of Melchingen (Sigmaringen), under the name of 

 Promephitis Gaudryi. This tooth closely resembles the corresponding 

 tooth of the La Grive fossil, but the roots of the latter are not so 

 weak, are less spreading, and there does not appear to be an anterior 

 pit in Schlosser's specimen. 



MUSTELID^. 



Teochictis Dbpeketi, sp. nov. 



This new species is represented by an incomplete skull with 

 associated left mandibular ramus (Brit. Mus. M. 5313). The 

 posterior moiety of the cranium is preserved, of the anterior 

 portion only part of the left maxillary with the four premolars and 

 the canine. The mandible closely resembles the one of T. Gaudryi, 

 Filh. — also represented in the La Grive collection — but is smaller and 

 slenderer. Skull depressed and elongate, with large tympanic bull«. 

 The temporal ridges unite to form the sagittal ridge at about ten. 

 millimetres anterior to the occiput; the space between them has, 

 on an average, a width of about seven millimetres. 



Posterior upper premolar short, with strong internal cusp extending 

 backward beyond the middle of the tooth. This tooth much 

 resembles the p. 1 of ' Mustela ' Filholi, Dep., but is shorter still. 

 P. 2 and p. 3 are two-rooted, in the main unicuspidate, with minute 

 basal cusps at the anterior and posterior border ; p. 4 minute, with 

 posterior basal cusp. 



1 Geol. unci Pal. Abhh., v, 3, p. 32, pi. ii, figs. 14, 16 (1902). 



