1903.] ox AN EXTINCT GENET FROM CYPRUS. 121 



its recognition as a subspecies ; and he therefore proposed for it 

 the name of Gazella g. rohertsi, in honour of the donor of the 

 specimens to the ISTational Museum. The type would be tlie finer 

 of the two males sent home by Messrs. Roberts and Blaine, 

 B.M. ISTo. 3.6.12.1. 



In this specimen the horns measured 23^^ inches along the 

 (morphological) anterior curve, their tips were 231 inches apart, 

 and the basal length of the skull was 9| inches. Mr. Roberts 

 quoted other examples having hoiiis 24| inches long, with a spread 

 of 27| and 28 inches. 



The follomng papers were read : — 



1. On an Extinct Species of Genet (Genetta plesictoides, sp. n.) 

 from the Pleistocene of Cyprus. By Dorothy M. A. 

 Batjj *. 



[Received May 12, 1903.] 

 (Plate X.t) 



In October, 1901, 1 began my search for Pleistocene bone-caves 

 in the island of Cyprus, and for the next few months confined my 

 attention to carrying on some work near the Monastery of Aghios 

 Chrysostomos in the noi'th, and to excavating in sevei'al caves in 

 the south-east of the island. 



In the following January I first discovered Dikomo Mandra, a 

 cave containing an extensive deposit of Hippopotamus remains, 

 and the largest found in the Kerynia range of limestone-hills, in 

 the north o"f the island. However, it was not until April 1902, 

 after receiving a grant from the Royal Society, that 1 was 

 enabled to begin work here. This proved to be the only cave in 

 which the remains of any carnivorous animal were found, other 

 than those of the Fox still living in Cyprus. The remains obtained 

 appear to be those of an extinct species and consist of a few limb- 

 bones, a small piece of a right mandibular ramus with the posterior 

 half of the carnassial, and a left mandibular ramus in which the 

 incisoi"s, the canine, and the last molar are missing. These portions 

 of jaws, differing somewhat in size and wear, are evidently those 

 of two individuals. 



At the back of the cave, and some feet above the floor, was a 

 mass of rock and earth containing a number of Hippopotamus 

 bones. Work was begun here, an attempt being made to extricate 

 a skull of this animal Avhich could be seen embedded in the matrix. 

 As soon as some of this rock had been l3roken aAvay, several rents 

 and fissures were found filled, partly with eai-th which must have 

 been there since the time when the cave was inhabited by these 



* Communicated by Heney Woodwaed, LL.D., F.K.S., V.P.Z.S. 

 t For explanation of the Plate, see p. 124. 



