116 FAUNA ANTIQUA SIVALENSIS. 



Feet Inches 



Height from anterior end left molar to base of left incisive 



bone, at border of nasal opening , . . . . 1 „ 7* 



Height from inferior margin of occipital foramen to apex of 



vertex, right side . . . . . . . 1 ,, 6'25 



Length of alveolar cavity measured from the inferior (distal) 

 end of pterygoid process to commencement of molar in 

 front, right side ....... 



From ditto to floor of intermaxillary fossa 



From the intermaxillary suture to the outer border of the 

 maxillary portion of the incisive alveolus 



Length of incisive fossa remaining ..... 



Width of incisive fossa near apex ..... 



Ditto anteriorly at fracture of incisive .... 



Transverse diameter of the incisive alveolus 



Antero-posterior ditto ....... 



Depth of occipital fossa from the plane of the bosses at the 

 vertex ......... 



Greatest width of ditto ....... 



Narrowest diameter ditto between the bosses 



Greatest length of fossa from occipital foramen to anterior 

 fragmented margin ....... 



Depth of jaw from lower margin of maxilla to orbital pro- 

 cess of sphenoid near the middle ..... 



From posterior border of palate to broken edge of incisives 



Width of palate in front between alveoli .... 



Ditto behind 



Length of crown of molar ...... 



Width of ditto in front ...... 



Ditto about middle 



Both of the molars are in situ and appear to have been well 

 worn, the crown on to the back ridges lieing ptotruded ; the ante- 

 rior plates had been worn out. The grinding surface is a good 

 deal damaged by blows and abrasion, but the plates are seen to 

 be closely approximated with narrow discs and plaited enamel. 

 The discs expand into a loop in the middle ; about 22 plates can be 

 counted, besides some of the most anterior which have probably been 

 worn away. The teeth are the last true molars of a large adidt, and 

 probably male, judging from the size of the tusks. An entire cranium 

 in very good preservation of E. Namadicus is figured in Faun. Antiq. 

 Siv. PI. XII. A. ; the original is lodged in the United Service Museum, 

 Charing Cross, London ; it was probably a female. The specimen 

 above described agrees so entirely with that figure, that there can be 

 no doubt of its belonging to the same species. The enormous width 

 and depth of the occipital fossa which form so prominent a character 

 in the drawing are still more exaggerated in the fossil, together with 

 all the other characteristic marks. Unfortunately the anterior bulge of 

 the forehead is broken off, or it might have been expected to have been 

 still more largely developed. The crowns of the molars are better 

 preserved than in the figured specimen, which shows only 10 or 11 

 plates. Faun. Ant. Siv. PI. XII. B. fig. 3. This cranium is fully equal 

 in size to correspond with the huge specimens of fore and hind legs 

 from Sejoitni, in the Museum, presented by Dr. Spilsbury. This speci- 

 men was found at Brimhan Ghat. — Vide Journ. As. Soc. vol. xii. p. 1 65. 



No. 54. Elephas Namadicus. — Rare specimen, comprising a large 

 portion of the sternum of enormous size. The mass is wedge-shaped 



