234 TJESID^. 



Norway, and named U. norvegieus, is the Myrebiom or Ant-Bear of 

 Worm. 



I am not so sure that it is the Ant-Bear of Eastern Siberia, 

 figured by Eversmann as U. formiearius, as the figure of the skull 

 does not quite agree with the Museum specimen : the flat plane of 

 the forehead is not carried so far back on the crown as in the skull 

 here described. If it is not the same, the U. formiearius of Siberia 

 must be, from the description, a nearly aUied species of the same 

 genus. 



The figure of the skull of the young Brown Bear from Norway, 

 figured by De BlainviUe (Osteogr. t. 7), is probably a young skull 

 of this species : it differs from the figures of the skull of the other 

 European Bears in the same work, in the forehead not being sepa- 

 rated from the nose by any frontal cross Une. De Blainville does 

 not give an account of its origin, but, by mistake, says it is the same 

 as the one figured by Cuvier (Oss. Foss. iv. t. 22) ; but no skull from 

 Norway is figured in that work. It is probably the skull of the 

 animal figured by M. E. Cuvier. 



2. Myrmaxctos horriaceus. 



TJrsus horribilis horriaceus, Baird, Mamm. N. A. t. 80. f. (skull). 



Hah. North America, barren ground. 



The figure of the skull in Dr. Spencer Baird's work above quoted 

 is more like Myrmarctos than Ursus (see p. 229). 



4. HELARCTOS. 



Head short, subglobose. Nose short, forming with the forehead 

 and crown an arched outline. Lips rather external, very mobile. 

 Front claw very long, strongly arched. Fur short, rigid. Nose of 

 skuU very short, as broad as long, forming a Une with the forehead. 

 Nasal bones short. Front false grinders crowded, large. Upper 

 hinder grinder broad, scarcely larger than the flesh-tooth ; the outer 

 upper cutting- teeth much the largest; the first false grinder large, 

 second very small, third two-lobed. 



Hab. Southern Asia, South America, and Europe. 



Asiatic Bears (Procliilus) (partly), Gray, Ann. Phil. 1826. 

 Helarctos, Horsfield, Zool. Jovrn. ii. p. 221, 1825 ; Firuss. Bvll. Set. 

 N. vi. p. 396, 1825 ; Isis, 1830, p. 1023; Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 696. 



a. Australasian. Claws compressed, much curved. 



1. Helarctos malayaiius. (The Bruang.) B.M. 



Black ; nose ferruginous ; chest with a semilunar or semioval 

 yellow patch ; claws very long. 



Ursus malayanus, Baffles, Linn. Trans, xiii. p. 254 ; Sorsf. Java, t. ; 

 F. Cuvier, Mamm. IMhogr. t. ; Cuvier, Oss. Foss. iv. p. 322. t. 22. 

 f. 3, 4; De Blainv. Osteogr. Ureus, p. 25, t. 8 (skull), t. 12 (teeth) ; 

 Fischer, Syn. Mamm. p. 144. 



