2. LOXODONTA. 



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Elephaa indicu8 zeylanicus, Slainv. Osf^ogr. t. 1, 23. 

 ElephaB indicus bengalensis, Blainv. OsUoqr. t. 7. 

 Var. ? Elephas sumatranus, Temm. Coup ctcdl (B.M.) ; P. Z. 8. 1849, 

 p. 144. 



Hah. India ; Ceylon (?) ; Sumatra (B.M.). 



The skeleton of the SumatranElephant, which the British Museum 

 received from the Leyden Museum, has not the differences in the 

 number of vertebrae from the Indian one that Temminok gives as 

 characteristic of the Sumatran species. 



Foetus in the British Museum.— G'my, P. Z.S. 1868, p. 491, f. 1. 



Kg. 41. 



FcBtus of Indian Elephant of the natural size. 



2. LOXODONTA. 



Lamina of the teeth with lozenge-shaped crown. SkuU subglo- 

 bular, forehead shelving, crown rounded ; front of lower jaw acute, 

 produced. Trunk conical, thick at the base. Ears very large. 



Loxodonta, F. Cuvier, Denis Mamm. 



Lozodonta africana. (African Elephant.) B.M. 



Loxodonta africana, Grm/, lAst Mamm. B. M. 1843 ; Oerrard, Cat. 



Bmes B. M. 

 Elephas africanus, Blumenh. Albild. t. 19. f. o ; Kirk, P. Z. S. 1864, 



p. 654 ; Giebel, Siiugeth. p. 159 ; Blainv. OaUogr. Gravigrades, t. 3 



(skull), t. 7 & 9 (teeth). 

 Elephas maximus (part.), lAtm. 



Hah. South Africa, Cape of Good Hope ; West Africa ; East Africa, 

 Mossambique. 



See E. irmgnus and E. planidens, Falconer, Palseont. Mem. i. t. 4 ; 

 E. ganesa, Falconer, Palseont. Mem. i.t. 6. f. 1. 



Professor Owen thinks that the depth of the cleft between the 

 laminae of the teeth of some of the Asiatic fossil Elephants may 

 form a passage to the Mastodons (see Palaeont. p. 356). 



This suborder is particularly rich in fossil genera. The family 

 of Mastodontidce, with their tubercular grinders and elongated cylin- 

 drical tusks in the lower jaw, contains the genera Jfa*toc?on (Cnvier), 



