270 Reviews — L. M. Lamhe — On Testndo and Baena. 



II. — The Gueat Felines of the French Caves. 



Marcellin Boule. Les grands Chats des Cavernes. Annales de 

 Paleontologie, vol. i (1906), pp. 69-95, with 12^ text-figures 

 and 4 plates. 



4 S au introduction to this excellent memoir the comparative 

 _^\_ osteology of the lion and tiger is given, accompanied by 

 very useful outline figures of the characteristic parts. Then follows 

 the description of the large Pleistocene Feline from French caverns, 

 of which the Paris Museum has no less than three skeletons, two of 

 them, the Vence and the Cajai'c skeleton, complete, and each made 

 up of the bones of the same individual. The view of some 

 paljeontologists, that the large Pleistocene Feline of European caves 

 was the tiger, is discarded ; nor does the author consider it to form 

 a separate species ; he unites it with Felis ho, of which it is 

 considered to be a race (spelcea). The skeleton from Vence presents 

 some slight characters of its own ; the skull has the ' leonine ' 

 characters exaggerated, and the limbs are heavier than usual. 

 Professor Boule calls it Felis leo, var. Edtoardsi, being of opinion 

 that it seems to belong to au earlier stage of the Pleistocene than 

 the other cave lions, and that it might therefore be considered as 

 their ancestral form. We fail to find in the memoir the proofs for 

 the contention of a remoter age for the Vence skeleton. 



The memoir concludes with a chapter on the geographical and 

 stratigraphical distribution of the cave lion, accompanied by a map. 

 Felis arveniensis, from the Pleistocene of France and Italy, seems 

 to be the ancestral form of the cave lion. 



The new Annales de Paleontolojie, edited by Professor Boule, in 

 the first volume of which the present memoir is published, ai'e 

 a welcome and necessary addition to tte existing palceontulogical 

 periodicals. 



III. — Descriptions of New Species of Testudo and Baesa, with 

 Remarks on some Cretaceous Forms. By Lawrence M. 

 Lambe, F.G.S.. F.K.S.C. (Reprinted from the Ottaioa Naturalist, 

 January 6th, 1906, pp. 187-196, 2 plates.) 



I. THE specimens of Testudo described in this paper were 

 collected by Mr. Lambe, along with other vertebrate remains, 

 in 1904, in the Oligocene deposits at Bone Coulee, Cj'press Hills, 

 Assiniboia. They were found separately, but appear to lielong 

 to one species, hitherto undescribed, for which the name exornata is 

 proposed. 



The three specimens upon which this species is based consist 

 of the proximal end of the left 1st costal, the distal half of the left 

 5th costal, and the proximal end of the left 6th costal. All the 

 specimens have a grooved surface, the gi'ooves of the left 1st costal 

 being concentric, and indicating an epidermal shield pattern such as 

 is found in some modern species of Tesludo. The specimens also 

 show that the costal plates were alternately narrow and broad 



