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and the feeble tuberosity of ischium; naso however has a nearly straight lower margin of the 

 ischium, and moreover comparatively the largest sacral. 



MONOTREMATA. 

 Proëchidna. 



Mr. LORENTZ informs me that on the Wichmann Mountains (± 3300 m.) the people 

 showed him a claw that unmistakably once belonged to a Proëchidna; however he could 

 not procure a spécimen nor the mentioned claw, so that it is an open question to which 

 species it belongs. 



