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may be termed the sculpturing of the surface may be regarded as of considerable value. 

 Taking this, however, as a test, it will be found that whilst the surface of the plates in 

 the m.-m. 3, fig. 6, is very coarsely and irregularly fluted in the vertical direction, and 

 presents no trace of transverse wrinkling, that of the exposed plates in fig. 7 is very 

 finely fiuted, and at the same time very minutely wrinkled transversely*; and the same 

 condition may be seen (though much less plainly, owing to a thick covering of cementum) 

 in the fragment represented in fig. 8, or in the corresponding tooth described in the note 

 in page 290. In the worn milk-teeth, figs. 3, 4. and 5, the surface is entirely covered 

 with a thick cement. I am inclined therefore to assign fig. 6 to the same species as 

 figs. 3, 4, and 5, whilst figs. 7, S, and the corresponding tooth would belong to the 

 same species as fig. 9, and perhaps as fig. 10. 



How these teeth are related to the other bones of the two dwarf species, the present 

 collection afi'ords no certain means of positively deciding ; but, from the more general 

 tendency towards the African type which is exhibited in so many respects in E. meli- 

 tensis, 1 should be inclined to assign the teeth represented in figs. 11, 12, and 13, with 

 the corresponding milk-molars, to that species. This, again, however, is one of the 

 questions which remain to be decided when we are furnished with more ample materials. 



Among the teeth undoubtedly belonging to the Zebbug collection when it came into 

 my hands, was one about whose source some obscurity exists. It was not marked as 

 coming from Zebbug, nor is it entered in the rough list of the collection. Captain 

 Spratt, however, though uncertain about its relation to Zebbug, is pretty confident that 

 it was brought from Malta. 1 have therefore not included it in my account of the 

 Zebbug collection, but think it should be noticed for future reference, as connected 

 with the island. 



The tooth is the m.-m. 3 of the right side, and it is tolerably entire, though consi- 

 derably worn in front, so that the two anterior plates are worn down to the common 

 base, and the third very nearly so ; but the diminished base of the anterior fang, appa- 

 rently much absorbed, still remains. There have been six plates, and probably two talons. 

 The length is about 2 ', and the extreme width (5th plate) 1""3. The tooth, therefore, 

 in general dimensions, differs but little in its size and proportions from the corresponding 

 tooth in E. indicus and E. primigenius ; whilst it is shorter in proportion than the 

 3rd m.-m. of E. antiquus, and proportionally a good deal wider than the same tooth iwE. 

 africanus and E. meridionalis. It almost exactly resembles, though rather more worn, 

 a 3rd m.-m. from Long Hole, in Gower, and which is labelled by Dr. Falconer E. antiquus, 

 though it .seems to me to exhibit much more the characters of E. primigenius, to which 

 species, 1 should, with the greatest deference to so high an authority, be inclined to 

 assign both. 



* The transverse wrinkling appears to me, from subsequent observation, to be a very uncertain character ; but 

 the large vertical markings afford, undoubtedly, characters of some importance. 



