ELEPHAS MERIDIONALIS.— MILK-MOLARS. 187 



on the Suffolk coast, is preserved in the collection of J. J. Colman, Esq., of Corton. It is 

 smaller than the above, but presents precisely the same characters, contrasting in these 

 respects with the more slender and highly arcuated incisor of a Mammoth, in this 

 gentleman's possession, from the submarine deposits close to Lowestoft, Suffolk . Con- 

 sidering that the teeth of E. antiquus described at page 175, and shown in PL XX, 

 figs. 1 and 2, were dug out of the Forest Bed in the neighbourhood, it is just possible 

 that the tusk may have belonged to the same individual. 



I have seen no milk-incisors referable to any of the three species. 



2. MILK-MOLARS. 



Ante-penultimate Milk-Molar. 



I can find no reference whatever of this tooth having been found in British strata. 

 The examples given by Falconer 1 are from the Valley of the Arno. An upper molar 

 is recorded to be - 95 inches in length by 0*75 in width, and a lower is 07 in length, 

 the breadth is not given. Both specimens present a ridge formula of x 3 x. The above 

 dimensions, considered relatively with the successional molars, appear small, and even 

 when compared with the same tooth in E. antiquus and E. primigenius? The 

 dimensions, however, as already stated in connection with the two latter, vary much, and 

 the crown sculpturing is never so pronounced as to display specific characters. No 

 doubt, however, the plates were thick and the cement in excess as compared with the 

 Mammoth's ante-penultimate milk-molar. 



Among the Proboscidean remains from the Sewalik Mountains of India there are 

 numerous molars so closely related in character to teeth of E. meridionalis, that had the 

 specimens been found in Europe one would have no hesitation in placing them with the 

 latter ; in fact, it was a knowledge of the Sewalik molars, referred by Dr. Falconer 

 to E. planifrons, that first led him to surmise the existence of more than one species of 

 fossil Elephant in British strata. In the noble monument of his zeal, and that of his 

 colleague, Colonel Cautley, as evidenced by the fossil remains in the National Collection, 

 and elsewhere, there are several specimens of E. planifrons with a small pre-molar in front 

 of the milk and true molars ; a condition not, as far as is known to me, 3 yet observed 

 in E. meridionalis or any other member of the genus. It is clear, however, from several 

 jaws in the Sewalik Collection, British Museum, that the presence of a pre-molar was not 

 an invariable condition in E. planifrons. 



1 Op. cit., vol. ii, pp. 110 and 114. 



3 Pages 1 1, 86, and 88. 



u Falconer notices the point, op. cit, vol. ii, pp. 93 and 118. 



