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The latter is also young, so that it is of a different species. 



In the adult Cave Lion (No. 28,553), from Lundwig Cavern, the 

 carnassier is thick and massive. The anterior lobe is simple. The 

 internal tubercle is very much in front, being in a vertical line with 

 the commissure of the two front lobes, sloped off and bearing no tuber- 

 cular or raised edge. The length of the carnassier is 1*5 inch. 



But in a specimen of young Cave Lion from Kent's Hole (No. 18,982), 

 comprising the left upper maxilla with the orbit, milk premolar, milk 

 carnassier, and the permanent carnassier coming behind it in germ, the 

 following characters are observed. The length of the crown of the milk 

 carnassier is 09 in. The anterior lobe is distinctly bitubercular, and 

 the tubercles are not in the same line, the second being placed inwards 

 alternately with the front tubercle and the middle cusp, which are in 

 the same line. The middle cusp is not much elevated, and descending 

 from the middle of the point, and very near the middle of the tooth 

 (but slightly in front), is a distinct tubercle, supported on a pronged 

 fang. This tubercle is distinctly raised like that of a Hyama. 



The Taunton specimens are very distinct from all. 



The specimen belonging to De Blainville's Smilodon skull is the 

 upper carnassier of the right side, with a premolar in front. It is thick 

 and short, and 4-tuberculate. The central cusp is large. The length of 

 the carnassier, which is partly broken behind, is 1*7 in. The height of 

 the middle cusp outside, -i)5 in. Ditto inside to surface of inner tubercle, 

 IT in. The tooth is long and massive, and the crown high ; it is not 

 so thick comparatively as in the Tiger. Anteriorly there is a cusp 

 bearing a small tubercle in front in the same line, and separated by a 

 distinct notch. The middle cusp is shaped as in the Taunton speci- 

 mens; but it descends on the inner side as a distinct fang, which is 

 nearly vertical. There is no mark of an inner tubercle as a distinct 

 object. The fang divaricates less than in the English tooth. The 

 posterior lobe is long, but the crown characters are not shown, owing 

 to the fracture. The posterior fang is very broad, or two-thirds the 

 length of the tooth. The internal tubercle is situated at one-third from 

 the anterior margin, much more in advance than in the English 

 specimen. 



On careful comparison, however, with the Felis spelcea, the Taunton 

 teeth appear to be the milk carnassiers of that species. 



[In Dr. Falconer's Note-books there are also descriptions of frag- 

 ments of the upper and lower jaws of Felis spelcea, among the Bielbeck 

 fossils in the York Natural History Museum ; of the upper and lower 

 canines (probably from same individual), i'ragments of the lower jaw, 

 humerus, and phalanges of the same species, in Dr. Spurrell's collection 

 at Belvedere ; also of a lower jaw, supposed to be from Erith (but this 

 was doubted by Dr. F.), of Felis spelcea, in the collection of Mr. W. H. 

 Newsted at Maidstone. The following note also appears to refer to 

 another species of Felis. — Ed.] 



Note on Felis from North Hill Tor. 



British Museum, July, 1862.— Compared Colonel Wood's three spe- 

 cimens of Felis, from North Hill Tor, with skulls of Lion, Tiger, 

 Leopard, Panther {Leopardus varius), Jaguar, and Puma ; they cor- 



