THE MALTESE FOSSIL ELEPHANTS. 



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angulations, and faint crimping, which decrease towards the cornua. The ridge is 

 remarkable for the profusion of its digitations, as seen in fig. 10. 



Fig. 2. 



Last Upper llilk-molar. Nat. size. 



The colline (a) shown in PI. II. fig. 1 equals in breadth those of figs. 10 & 17, which 

 might therefore fairly be considered the last milk-molars of the same pygmy form. 



There is a perfect upper molar, said to belong to the Zebbug collection, although, 

 strange to say, it is not referred to by Falconer in his description of the teeth. It has 

 however, been figured and described by Mr. Busk in a note appended to Falconer's 



Fis. 3. 



Last Lower Milk-molar? Nat. size. 



memoir'. This specimen displays ten ridges in a space of 2-9 inches, and in characters 

 agrees very well with the above. 



' Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. vi. p. 290. I have examined the specimen carefully, and compared its exterior with 

 other molars from Zehbug, and find they agree in mincralogical characters, only that the white incrustation on 

 the cement is very much thicker in the above. Considering that the specimen must have been with Dr. Fal- 

 coner when he wrote his description of the last upper milk-molar of Elephus meliiensis, it seems very strange 

 that he should have selected a fragment of an analogous tooth when he had such a perfect specimen of the 

 same type before him. 



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