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I propose the name of Viverra Hastingsice for this specimen, it 

 having formed part of the large and A'aluable series of vertebrate 

 remains from the Hordwell Beds oolleeted by the late Marchioness 

 of Hastings, which have long been preserved in the National Col- 

 lection. 



A second specimen, also from the same bed ^ of the Upper Eocene 

 at Hordwell, is part of a skull of a much larger animal than the 

 preceding, showing the palatal surface of the maxillte and portions 

 of other bones of the head, but too fragmentary for ready identifica- 

 tion. A canine and three premolars in fair preservation, and one 

 premolar and a carnassial with the crowns broken are present in 

 their respective alveoli. (No. 36791.) 



The maxillae have parted at the median palatal suture, and that of 

 the right side has slipped in advance of the left ; notwithstanding 

 this displacement, and some fractures, the size and form of as much, 

 as remains of the roof of the mouth is preserved. The length from 

 the anterior margin of the canine to the posterior margin of the 

 carnassial is 2*3, and the width of the palate between the third pre- 

 molars is 1-3. No incisors are preserved, and the possession of a 

 first premolar is indicated only by the preservation of part of an 

 alveolus. The canine has a broad, and relatively to the crown, large 

 fang ; its antero-posterior diameter being 0*58, and that of the base 

 of the crown 04. The second premolar is conical, with the anterior 

 margin vertically convex, and the posterior margin vertically concave 

 and sharp-edged, and there is a well-defined ciugulum on the inner 

 side. The dimensions ai-e antero-posteriorly 0*45, and the posterior 

 transverse diameter 0-2. The summits of all the teeth being worn, 

 vertical measurements have not been taken. 



The third premolar has a large posterior lobe with the point 

 abraded by use, and an inner cingulum terminating in a small lobule 

 at the inner posterior base of the crown ; the dimensions are antero- 

 posterior diameter 0*5, and transverse diameter 0'25. The carnassial 

 (pm. 4) relatively to premolars 2 and 3 is a small tooth ; its antero- 

 posterior diameter being 0-55 and the transverse diameter 0-43. The 

 summit is too much broken for description, but the hinder talon is 

 intact and small. The only evidence of a tubercular molar are the 

 alveoli of the two outer fangs of m. 1, one empty, the other con- 

 taining the fang in situ; there is no indication of a third or inner 

 fang ; the second molar if present was smalL The incompleteness 

 or absence of these characteristic and important teeth, together with 

 the fragmentary condition of the few bones of the head present, 

 renders it almost impossible to determine accurately the genus to 

 which the fossil should be referred. The parts that remain do not 

 correspond with the same parts in any Eocene carnivore that I have 

 been able to compai'e it with, either by drawing or actual fossil. 



The specimen was collected and presented to the National Collection 

 with other fossils from Hordwell in 1862, by Samuel Laing, Esq., 

 M.P., F.G.S. 



1 Bed No. 15 of Messrs. Tawney and Keeping's section of the Hordwell Cliffs, 

 Quart. Journ. Gaol. Soc. vol. xxxix. p. 571. 



