GARNIVORA. 13^ 



from Eppelshelm, was referred to L. dubia (Cat. Foss. Mamm., 

 Part i., p, 191, 1885) has since been described by Mr. Lydekker 

 (Proc. Zool. Soc, 1890, p. 3) as a new species, L. hessica. 



LdTEA ReEVBI, NEWTON. 



Plate L, Fig. 13, a, b, c. 



Mr. James Reeve, the Curator of the Norwich Museum, has 

 obtained from the Norwich Crag of Bramerton a remarkable 

 carnivor tooth, which is so unlike any form previously known 

 that it has been described (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, Vol. XLVI., 

 p. 446, 1890) as a new species, and, from its general resem- 

 blance to some of the more aberrant forms of Otter, has been 

 placed in the genus Lutra, 



The specimen is an unworn germ of a carnassial tooth ; the 

 front part is pointed and bears three low cusps of equal size, 

 while the hinder part is truncated, with a depressed upper surface 

 bounded on the outer side by a cusp, a little smaller than the 

 three anterior cusps, and on the inner side by a ridge. Although 

 the tooth is so unlike the lower carnassial of t!ie common Otter, 

 yet this low crowned type of tooth is found in the Indian claw- 

 less Otter, Lutra cinerea, and the three equal anterior cusps are 

 paralleled in the fossil species lately described by Mr. Lydekker 

 (Proc. Zool. Soc, 1890, p. 3) as Lutra hessica. 



Genus AILUEUS, Cuvier. 



AlLURUS ANGLICUS, DAWKINS. 

 Plate I., Figs. 17, a, b, and 18, a, b. 



A portion of a lower jaw with a carnassial tooth in place 

 from the Red Crag Nodule-bed of Felixstow, which is preserved 

 in the Reed Collection, York Museum, has been described by 

 Prof. Boyd Dawkins (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, Vol. XLIV., 

 p. 228, 1888) as a new species of the remarkable racoon-like 

 Himalayan genus Ailurus, and named A. anglicus. This 

 species was about one third larger than the living A.fulgens. 



Another portion of a lower jaw, but without teeth, from the 

 Red Crag Nodule-bed near Woodbridge, is preserved in the 

 same collection, and is now also referred to A. anylicus. More 

 recently (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, Vol. XLVI., p. 451, 1890) 

 an upper molar tooth (PI. I., tig. 18) has been found at the 

 .same horizon near Butley, which, while agreeing wiih the first 

 upper true molar of Ailurus fulgens (P). I., fig. 19) in all the 

 details of its structure, every cusp and each tubercle (with one 

 exception) finding its counterpart in the recent form, is pro- 

 portionally longer from before backwards and about one third 



