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unlike the canine tooth of either Felis or Ursus. This tooth is 

 referred to the present genus. 



Hycenarctos is represented hy different specific forms, in the 

 Pliocene of the Siwaliks, from whence the original specimens 

 were obtained ; in the Pliocene marine sands of Montpellier 

 (Gervais, Pal. Gen., p. 209), also in Miocene beds at Sansan, 

 Gers, and Alcoy in Spain (Gervais, p. 210). A single tooth in 

 the British Museum from beds, probably of I'liocene age, in the 

 South of China, has been referred to this genus by Mr. Lydekker 

 (Cat. Foss. Mamm. Brit. Mus., Part i., p. 156, 1885). 



A small species of Hycenarctos from the Miocene of Kiefer- 

 stadtl. Upper Silesia, has been described by Herr Koken (Sitzb. 

 Ges. Naturf. Freunde, Berlin, No. 3, p. .44, 1888). 



In Britain this genus is only known from the Red Crag 

 Nodule-bed. ' 



Genus URSUS, Linnaeus. 



Sir Richard Owen seems to have been the first to notice the 

 occurrence of the genus Ursus in the Suffolk Crag (Brit. Foss. 

 Mamm., p. 105, 1846, and Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, Vol. XII, p. 

 227, 1856). He says : " The ursine genus is represented by an 

 ante-penultimate grinder of the right side, upper jaw, of a 

 Bear, somewhat smaller than the corresponding tooth of Ursus 

 spelcBus. The fossil in question was obtained by Mr. Col^ 

 chaster from the Red Crag of Newbourn, near Woodbridge, 

 Suffolk. The specimen is now in the collection of the Rev. 

 Edward Moore, of Bealings, near Woodbridge." 



Unfortunately, I have been unable to verify this determination. 

 Mr. E. C. Moor, of Great Bealings (son of the late Rev. Edward 

 Moor), has still in his collection a tooth (Plate III., fig. 15) 

 said to be the one alluded to in the abo-\'e quotation ; but this has 

 less resemblance to Ursus than it has to Sus, and possibly it may 

 be Sus pakeochcRrus. 



In 1864 Prof. Lankester described a slender canine tooth (Ann. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 3, Vol. XIV., p. 358, Plate viii., figs. I and 4) 

 from the Red Crag of Newbourn, in Mr. Whincopp's collection, 

 now in the Reed Collection, York Museum, which he referred 

 with little doubt to Ursus arvernensis, and still maintained this 

 determination in 1870 (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, Vol. XXVI., 

 p. 511). This tooth (Plate viii., fig. 16) does not seem to me to 

 agree with the canine of U. arvernensis, and the roughness of the 

 enamel is quite unlike that of ursine teeth, a fact which led Prof. 

 Boyd Dawkins to doubt its belonging to this genus, and indeed it 

 seems much more probable that it will prove to be an anterior 

 tooth of Sgualodon, and cannot therefore be taken as evidence of 

 the occurrence of Ursus in the Red Crag. 



Mr. . Prestwich quotes Ursus (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, Vol., 

 XXVII., p. 456, 1871) as being in Mr. Fitch's collection from 



