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posterior lobe (6), which extends forward to abut upon the back part 
of the anterior lobe. These differences repeat characteristics seen 
in the anterior lower premolar, p 2, of Tapirus malayanus; but the 
transverse development of the anterior lobe in the present specimen 
shows it to be the succeeding premolar, p3; and there is an abraded 
spot on the enamel of the fore part of the crown, proving it to have 
been preceded by another tooth, viz. that which answers to p 2 
in the type series, but which is the foremost of the lower grinders 
in all Tapirs. 
The first lower molar,m1,right side, of Tapirus sinensis(P1.X XIX. 
fig. 5) exceeds its homologue in 7. malayanus by one line in both 
transverse and fore-and-aft diameters of the crown; the enamel is 
thicker, but the characters of the accessory ridges are less marked 
than in p 3. If the figure of the Chinese lower molar be compared 
with that of the lower molar of Tapirus priscus from the Red Crag 
of Sutton (Quarterly Journal of the Geol. Soc. vol. xii. p. 233, 
figs. 8 a, 8 6), the difference of dimensions will be appreciated. 
The second lower molar, m 2, left side, repeats the differential 
characters of the foregoing as compared with its homologue in 
Tapirus malayanus. The posterior fang of this tooth is preserved 
to a length of one inch seven lines; its anterior surface shows the 
deep longitudinal, almost angular, channel which traverses that 
part, the hind surface of the fang being almost flat. There are 
fragments of another right lower molar of the same species of 
Tapirus, which, on the grounds above stated, I may be justified in 
defining as Tapirus sinensis. The differences observable in the 
molars of the American species of Tapir being greater and more 
numerous than those.noticed in the Sumatran species as compared 
with the Chinese specimens, I have not spent time in their specifi- 
cation. 
Remains of Tapirus appear not to have been met with in the 
Indian tertiaries. In Europe they have been found in the miocene 
of the Bourbonnais, and the pliocene of Auvergne, in the Eppels- 
heim miocene, and in the Red Crag at Woodbridge and Sutton. The 
Crag Tapir, like the Crag Hyena, was much smaller than the 
Chinese species. 
Mr. Swinhoe has been so good as to send me a copy of a figure 
of a quadruped called the “ White-encircled Moh,’ from the old 
Chinese dictionary of Urh-ya, which dates from the commencement 
of the Christian era. This figure combines the head of an elephant, 
with its large pendent ears and long proboscis, with the trunk of a 
Tapir, the mane and bushy tail of a horse, and pentadactyle hind feet. 
It is worthy of a passing notice, however, because the trunk shows 
the diversity and arrangement cf contrasted colours which are pecu- 
liar to the Malayan and Sumatran Tapirs. It may also he remarked 
that the Tapir has a mid tract of erect stiff hairs along the upper sur- 
face of the neck, exemplifying a certain correspondence with the one- 
hoofed perissodactyles, and it has a rudimental proboscis. Opinions, 
of course, will vary as to the source of the figure of the “ white- 
encircled” proboscidian and maned quadruped in the old Chinese 
