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southern side of the range, between the Aghirdhir Pass and the 

 village of Kythreea, in a low broken line of cliffs parallel with the 

 main ridge. These are called the Kerynia caves, and are named — 

 (1) Coutzaventis; (2) Haghios Chrysostomos; (3) Anoyero Speliosj 

 (4) Dikomo Mandra; (5) Haghios Elias; (6) the Elephant Deposit; 

 (7) the Western Cave. 



Most of these caves have, by reason of long atmospheric erosion, 

 partially or wholly disappeared, leaving the stalagmitic flooring 

 containing mammalian remains unprotected and exposed often at 

 a considerable distance from the face of the cliffs. But although 

 many of them are now almost obliterated by the falling in of the 

 roof and walls, the author points out that wherever this has 

 happened the limits of the floor are sharply defined by the hard 

 ossiferous deposit and the stalagmitic floor. In close proximity are 

 €aves still preserved containing precisely similar deposits. 



The fauna of the caves is comparatively scanty, the only other 

 important extinct form besides the dwarf elephant and hippopotamus 

 being a new species of Genet (Qenetta plesictoides), described in the 

 Proceedings of the Zoological Society. 



III. — FuKTHER Note on the Remains of Elephas Cypriotes^ 

 Bate, from a Cave-Deposit in Cyprus. By Dorothy M. A. 

 Bate.i 



f|1HIS paper is a continuation of one already published- "On the 

 JL Discovery of a Pigmy Elephant in the Pleistocene of Cyprus," 

 and enters into a detailed description of the teeth of this small 

 proboscidean whose remains are now in the British Museum of 

 Natural History. 



The collection includes incisors, milk molars, and permanent 

 molars. Several of the latter still retain their position in the jaws, 

 and in some instances the teeth of both sides of the same individual 

 were found. 



The permanent incisor tusks of two forms, presumably belonging 

 to males and females, were found. They differ from the same teeth 

 of the Maltese dwarf elephants in being considerably compressed 

 laterally. The largest specimen measures 29-7 cm. along the 

 outside of the curve, with a maximum diameter of 3*7 cm. 



Of the upper cheek teeth the third and fourth of the milk series, 

 as well as the three permanent molars, are described in detail. 

 There was a small third milk molar (mm. 2) implanted by a single 

 root, but no specimen was collected. 



Of the lower series, the third and fourth milk molars and the 

 three permanent teeth were represented by numerous examples and 

 are fully described. 



An almost entire left ramus of one young individual and the 

 symphysial portion of another are also described. The only limb 

 bone obtained was the distal portion of a femur. 



1 Being the abstract of a paper read before the Eoyal Society, June 9th, 1904. 

 •Communicated by Dr. H. Woodward, F.R.S., F.G.S. 



- Eead before the Eoyal Society, May 7th, 1903 ; see Geol. Mag., 1903, p. 241. 



