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left by the tide. Is a true Ci'ocotta, by the teeth above and below, and 

 not a Euhyccna. Blainville's figure, PI. III. is certainly not it, but 

 Hywna striata. Vide three fine skulls in the British Museum; one 

 with Mr. Waterhouse, two with Dr. J. E. Gray. 1 



II. — Note on Skull of Fossil Hyaena in Florence Museum. 



Florence, May 20, 18. r >9. — Examined skull of Hyaena of large size, 

 but broken vertically through the cerebral portion, about an inch and a 

 half behind the orbits ; the facial part with the palate and both orbits 

 present. On the right side, one large premolar and the canine in situ ; 

 on the left, the carnassier with three premolars in situ, but a good deal 

 broken, also the six incisive teeth. Looks like Hyama spelasa, but 

 differs very remarkably in showing two disc-shaped eminences, above 

 the post-orbitary processes, forming a sort of step between the facial 

 and cerebral portions, with a channel between. 



Interval between the orbits, 2-9 in. Width of palate behind, 4'4 in. Length of 

 palate in middle, about 44 in. 



Not quite certain, but the disc-shaped appearance may have been 

 caused partly by a crush (?). The specimen is a late acquisition, and 

 from the Val d'Arno ; it bears a label of interrogation, ' Hyama Arver- 

 nensis 1 ' 



III. — Note on Hyaena from the Cave of San Teodop.o in Sicily. 



' Oxford, July 5, 1860. — Compared with Baron Anca the upper and 

 lower jaws of Hyama from Sicily with Buckland's recent specimens. 

 The Sicilian bones are certainly not of the Indian striped Hyama, but 

 of the Hyama crocuta, or spotted Hyama of the Cape.' 2 



IV. — Note on Hyaena from Caverna de Pedrara, Provincia de 



Segovia. 



[This note is dated September 11, 1864, and refers to a fragment of 

 the left ramus of the lower jaw, comprising the whole of the symphysis 

 and the three premolars. It was transmitted to Dr. Falconer from Don 

 Casiano de Prado of Madrid, through M. Lartet. On careful comparison 

 in the British Museum, Dr. Falconer pronounced it to be identical with 

 the H. spelcea of the English caves, and to be entirely different from 

 Baron Anca's San Teodoro specimen. — Ed.] 



1 Since Dr. Falconer's death it has been brunnca. See Proc. Lin. Soc, May 3, 

 shown by Mr. Busk that he was led into 1866, p. 59. — [Ed.] 

 error by the three skulls in the British j 2 Misled by the specimens in the Bri- 

 Museum, none of which really belonged \ tish Museum, Dr. Falconer, subsequently 

 to H. brunnea, the name they bore, and in a letter to M. Lartet, dated Sept, 9, 



that, in fact, there was then no accessible 

 specimen of a cranium of H. brunnea 

 either in the British Museum or in the 

 College of Surgeons. De Blainville's I [Ed.] 

 figure, according to Mr. Busk, is of H. 



1864, expressed the opinion that this 

 identification was wrong and that the 

 San Teodoro Hyaena was H. brunnea. — 



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