CAKNIVORA. — Leidy. 115 



CARNIVORA. 

 Genus, PROCYON.-Storr. 



PEOCYON LOTOR. 

 Plate XXIII. Fig. 1. 



Procyon lotor, Storr, Prod. Metli. Anim.. 1780. 

 Procyon lotor, Desmarest, Audubon, Bachman, etc. 



The collections, of Prof. Holmes and Capt. Bowman, from the Ashley Post-Pleiocene 

 deposit, contain molar teeth, black in color, not differing in form and size from those of 

 the recent Raccoon. 



Plate XXIII. Fig. 1, Right side lower maxillary bone of the Raccoon, shaded tooth, 

 a fossil, from the Ashley beds. 



Locality. Ashley Ferry. Museum, College of Charleston. 



Genus, ARCTODUS. — Leidy. 



AECTODUS PEISTINUS. 

 Plate XXIII. Pics. 3, 4. 



Arctodus pristinus, Leidy, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VII, 90. 



The collection of Capt. Bowman contains the crown of a molar tooth from the Post- 

 Pleiocene deposit of the Ashley river, which I suspect to indicate an extinct animal allied 

 to the Bear. The specimen most resembles the corresponding portion of the lower left 

 penultimate molar of the latter. It is oblong-oval in outline and is broader anteriorly than 

 posteriorly, being the reverse condition to that in the Bear. On the inner side it is straight 

 and nearly vertical, and on the outer side is convex and more deeply and equally bilobed 

 than what appears to be its homologue in the latter animal. The triturating surface 

 (Plate XXIII, figure 3), as in the Bear, is an oblong, superficial depression surrounded by 

 a chain of hill-like tubercles, of which the largest pair extend across the anterior part of 

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