490 Mr. R. T. Guiitlier on a 



obliterate before reaching tlie clypeus. Fastigium of vertex 

 strongiy sloping and forming Avitli the frontal ridge a broad 

 curve ; its surface flat, margins perfectly obliterate. Eyes 

 oval, prominent, distinctly less than t^vice as high as long; 

 subocular distance distinctly more tban length o£ an eye, but 

 less than its height ; distance between the eyes less than the 

 length of an eye^ but distinctly broader than the frontal 

 ridge between the antennae. Pronotum rounded, somewhat 

 compressed laterally, but scarcely constricted in the pro- 

 zona ; median keel very low, subob literate by puncturation. 

 Elytra as in Valunga. Hind femora short and fairly thick. 

 Male cerci elougato-triangular^ with the apex very slighLly 

 incurved. Wings infumate. 



This is a very peculiar genus^ which forms a sort of 

 connecting-link between the Acridoderi, which it remotely 

 resembles in the structure of the head, and the Valanga- 

 group of genera, to which it is, no doubt, most closely 

 related. It differs, however, so much from the true Valanga 

 in the head, pronotum, and the type of coloration, that I do 

 not hesitate to separate it generically. Only one species is 

 known as yet. 



1. Willemsea bimacidata (Wiilemse). 



19'22. Orthacantliacris himacidafa, ^Yillemse, Orthoptera in Nova 

 Guinea, siii., Zool. 5, p. 720, figs. 8, 9. 



I have seen two specimens only, male and female^ from 

 Sattelberg, German New Guinea (M.M.). 



[To be continued.] 



XLYIII. — Ursus anglicus, a new Species of British Bear. 

 By Robert T. Gunther, E.L.S. 



[Plates II. & III.] 



A LOWER mandible of this bear was found with other bones 

 about 5 feet below the surface in a pit in the Cherwell 

 gravels, of Pleistocene age, that underlie the Deer Park of 

 [Magdalen College. A few of the bones shoAved scratchings, 

 indicating that they had been rolled along the bed of a fast- 

 flowing stream, but the greater number seem to have be- 

 longed to animals that died on the spot or at no great 

 distance away. The bones were found below a well-marked 

 band of recent fresh-water shclls_, and at about 2 ft. 6 in. 



