4G0 DREPANODON. 



different individual. It is obliquely worn at the summit, and closely 

 serrulated on the concave side ; behind, there is a ridge without 

 serrulation. The tooth is darkish externally, but very white within. The 

 specimen is in a collection from Kent's Hole, presented by Mrs. Cazalet, 

 February 16, 1826. There is a cast of it at Oxford, and in the British 

 Museum. 



During a late visit to Oxford, Professor Phillips told me that he had 

 sent to York for an old letter in the records of the Natural History 

 Museum, in which McEnery, as far back as 1826, mentions Ursus 

 cultridens teeth, from Kent's Hole, as having been shown to Cuvier and 

 Buckland. 



In Plate F. of an unpublished work by Mr. McEnery, which was to 

 have illustrated the fossil remains found in Kent's Hole Cave, Torquay, 

 several figures are given of the teeth of Ursus cultridens (Jilachairodiis 

 cultridens). Figs. 1, 2, and 3 1 are serrated on both sides, and apparently 

 are different views of the same tooth. Figs. 6 and 7 are only serrated 

 on the concave side ; they represent apparently two teeth, although this 

 is not quite certain. The teeth were found by Mr. McEnery in Kent's 

 Hole, in January, 1826, and were mixed with teeth and gnawed bones 

 of rhinoceros, elephant, horse, ox, elk, deer, hysenas, bears, wolves, 

 foxes, &c. 



2. In Professor Buckland's collection in the Woodwardian Mu- 

 seum, at Oxford, there is the original ' Ursus cultridens ' canine of 

 McEnery from Kent's Hole, one of the three found by him there. At 

 McEnery's sale, two of these three teeth were purchased by Dr. Lovell 

 Phillips. One (this one) he presented to Dr. Buckland, and the other 

 to the British Museum. On May 8, 1858, I had an opportunity of 

 examing the Oxford tooth, and compai'ing it with the cast of a specimen 

 also in Buckland's collection, and labelled ' Ursus cultridens of Issoire.' 

 The tooth substance of the Kent's Hole specimen is very fresh looking 

 and yellowish, apparently glazed over and preserved by drying oil. 

 The apex is worn off and rounded. The wear is chiefly on one side, 

 as in old Tiger canines, and a dirty vascular core is exposed. The 

 serrature is very finely exhibited on the concave attenuated edge ; there 

 is none on the convex side, which is partly worn vertically, showing a 

 denuded furrow through the enamel into the ivory. The convex side 

 is rather thick. The base of the crown and the fang portion are also 

 thick. In addition to the terminal loss, the fang is also corroded. The 

 Oxford canine is evidently of a different age from that figured by Pro- 

 fessor Owen in the 'British Fossil Mammalia' (fig. 69, p. 180). The 

 cast above referred to is that of a corresponding, but younger, tooth. 

 It is quite entire to the extreme tip, which is very sharp. 



1 Figs. 2 and 3 of McEnery's Plate have Leen reproduced in figs. 8 and 7 of 

 Plate xxv. of vol. i. — [Ed.] 



