CAKNIVORA. 



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II. — Description by Dr. Falconer of Fossil Remains of Carnivora, 



FROM THE SeWALIK HiLLS, IN THE MuSEUM OF THE ASIATIC 



Society of Bengal. 



No. 847. Hycena. — Cranium nearly entire, deficient only in the 

 right zygomatic arch, and in the basal part of occiput, but covered 

 with matrix, and the teeth so mutilated that only the second premolar 

 is distinctly seen ; the incisors and canines in situ, but broken off. 



No. 848. Hycena. — Fragment of cranium a good deal crushed, and 

 mutilated behind the orbits, showing all the teeth on the right side ex- 

 cept the small premolar ; the teeth are considerably larger than those of 

 the existing Indian Hysena. On the left side canine seen in section. 



No. 849. Hyana. — Fragment of lower jaw, right side, containing the 

 four molars in situ ; teeth larger than in the existing Hyeena, but a 

 good deal concealed by matrix. 



No. 851. Feline — Fragment of horizontal ramus, lower jaw, right 

 side, containing the two last molars in situ ; would be about the size 

 oi Felis cristata (F. and C). 



No. 852. Canis. — Upper maxilla, left side, comprising a part of 

 palate and zygomatic portion of orbit. 



No. 859. Hycena. — Fragment of hard matrix containing part of 

 the cranium of a carnivorous animal, and showing canine ? and por- 

 tion of premolar, but much concealed by matrix. An Hyasna ? 



III. — Description by Dr. Falconer of Fossil Hy^na. 



BOOK, Jan. 21, 1841. 



From Note- 



Dimensions of a large Hycena, Dr. Jameson^ s, Suhai'unpoor. 



Inohea 

 Interval between the outer edges of the third or last false molar 



of the lower jaw ........ 4'1 



Length of the three anterior false molars . . . . . 1'9 



Ditto from anterior side large incisor to the posterior ditto third 



false molar . 

 Width of the line of incisors 



Length of posterior tubercidar 



Thickness of ditto about 



Height of ditto . 



Length of second ditto 



Thickness of ditto . 



Height of ditto about 



Interval between the bases of canines 



This specimen consists of the anterior half of the 

 sides, as far back as the rear of the third false molar, ^..v. ii4^.it,v^xo, 

 canines, &c., in situ. The teeth considerably worn. The incisors and 

 canines show nothing peculiar. The first false molar is very small, and 

 the second much smaller than the third. They are placed obliquely 

 in the jaw. Section of the canines oval. A very large species. 



3-4 

 1-7 



•9 

 0-6 

 6-5 

 0-7 



•45 



•4 

 1-9 



ower jaw 

 The 



both 



incisors. 



