120 p. N. BOSE ON FOSSIL CARNIVORA 



Mr. Lydekker has discovered four new and interesting species of 

 Carnivora*. 



The following is a complete list of fossil Carnivora from the 

 Sivalik Hills known at present : — 



1. Amphicyon jpcdcemdicns^Tiydekker. 



2. Hycenarctos sivalensis, Pale, et Cantl. 



3. palceindicus, Lydekker. 



A.fLutra palceindwa, Pale, et Cautl. et nob. 

 b.%Mellivora {Ursitaxus) sivalensis, Pale, et Cautl. 



6. EnTiydriodon sivcdensis, Pale, et Cautl. 



7. Ictitherium sivcdense, Lydekker. 

 8.t Viverra JBaJcerii, nob. 



9. § Cams curvipalatus, nob. 



lO.t sp. ? 



ll.\ Hycena sivalensis, Pale, et Cautl. et nob, 



12.t felina, nob. 



13. Felis cristata, Palo, et Caut. 



14.t sp. ? 



W.fMachcerodus sivalensis, Pale, et Cautl. et nob. 



16.t jjalceindicns, nob. 



17. Pseudcelurus sivalensis, Lydekker. 



Until lately the 8ivalik fossils used to be quoted by palaeontologists 

 as Miocene ; but the Geological Survey of India refer the ossiferous 

 Sivalik strata to the Pliocene epoch ; and Messrs. Medlicott and 

 Blanford have, in their valuable 'Manual of the Geology of India,' 

 entered into a very elaborate discussion regarding their age. Prom 

 the stratigraphical evidence, according to them, " there can be no 

 reasonable doubt that the Manchhar beds of Sind, as a whole, corre- 

 spond with the Sivalik formation of Northern India ;" and the Lower 

 Manchhar beds are shown by them to be most probably Upper Mio- 

 cene ||. But the evidence for correlating these beds with the Lower 

 Sivaliks (the Nahans), which are perfectly unfossiliferous, and the 

 " almost unfossiliferous Upper Manchhar beds to the ossiferous strata 

 of the Sivaliks," is, to say the least, not incontrovertible. Correlation 

 of strata in the absence of fossils woidd be necessarily uncertain, 

 especially seeing that, as we are informed by Messrs. Blanford and 

 Medlicott, it is "extremely difficult to trace particular zones amongst 

 the confused and contorted mass of the newer Tertiary deposits in 

 the sub-Himalayan ranges and the Punjab." There is no reason why 

 a part of the Lower Manchhars should not correspond to a part of 

 the Sivaliks above the Nahan group. Our knowledge of the Lower 

 Manchhar fauna is derived from remains which, according to 



* Eecords of the Geological Survey of India, vol. x. pt. 1, p. 82, pt. 2, p. 83"; 

 vol. xi. pt. 1, p. 103. 



t Described here. 



I Described bv Messrs. Baker and Durand under the generic name of " Gido " 

 (J. A. S. ofBengal, Tol. v.). 



§ Description of Messrs. Baker and Durand supplemented here. 



jl Manual of the Geology of India, p. 581. 



