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Cynodictis longirostris, Filhol. 

 A cranium from the phosphorites of Bach may very probably be 

 referred to this species ; which was previously merely known by the 

 mandible. This specimen will be figured. 



Lycaon anglicus, Lyd., sp. nov. 

 I propose to apply this name to the ramus of the mandible of a 

 large canoid animal from the caves of Spritsail-Tor, Gower, Glamor- 

 ganshire, figured in Falconer's " Palseontological Memoirs," vol. ii. 

 pi. xxxvi. tigs. 1, 2, under the name of Hyasnoid Wolf. The fourth 

 premolar agrees so closely with that of the existing Lycaon pictus, and 

 differs so widely from that of Canis, that it appears advisable to refer 

 the specimen provisionally to Lycaon. The carnassial differs con- 

 siderably from that of L. pictus. In view of the presence of races of 

 the existing African Hycena and Hippopotamus in the English 

 Pleistocene, the presence of a representative of the existing African 

 genus Lycaon is perhaps what might have been expected. The 

 fossil form shows some signs of being intermediate between Canis 

 lupus and Lycaon pictus, although nearer to the latter. 



Canis vulpes, Linn., from the Red Crag. 



Mr. Eobert Bell, F.G.S., has submitted to mj^ notice the palate of a 

 species of Canis, obtained from the Red Crag at Boyton, Suffolk, one- 

 half of which is figured in the accompanying 

 woodcut (Fig. 1). The specimen was ob- 

 tained low down in the Crag, a short distance 

 above the phosphatic bed, and Mr. Bell says 

 that it could not have been introduced, but 

 must be regarded as a true Crag fossil. The 

 bone is not in the intensely hard condition 

 characteristic of the fossils from the phosphatic 

 bed; but the diploe is extensively impregnated 

 with dark phosphatic matter, and the teeth are 

 stained a deep black colour. The specimen 

 comprises the greater portion of the palate, and 

 has not been subjected to rolling : it exhibits 

 the alveoli of the first and second incisors ; 

 both the third incisors ; the right canine, and 

 the alveolus of the left; the alveoli of the 

 first premolar; the second and third premolars 

 of both sides ; the right carnassial, and the 

 alveolus of the left ; the first true molars of 

 both sides ; and part of the alveoli of the 

 second true molars. The much-worn condition 

 of the teeth shows that the specimen belonged 

 to a very old animal. 



The specimen agrees precisely in relative 

 proportions with the cranium of Canis vulpes ; 

 but it is of considerably larger size than any 

 existing or cavern specimens that have come Fig. 1. Canis vulpes, 

 under my notice. The size of the teeth and balf of palate. From 



the Eed Cras:. 



