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extremities of the mandible ; there are five cheek-teeth ; and the 

 posterior border of the palate is deeply notched. This species may 

 be identical with the so-called Chirothsrium brocchii, Blainv., in 

 which case the latter name should be adopted. 

 Bab. Italy. 



48438. Cast of the type cranium and mandible. The originals 



were obtained from the Lower Pliocene (Plaisancien) of 

 Pelsino, Bologna, and are figured. by Capellini, op. cit. 

 pis. i.-iv. ; a reduced figure being given by Gaudry in 

 ' Les Enchainements, &c. — Mammiferes Tertiaires/ p. 35, 

 fig. 21. There are five cheek-teeth on the right side of the 

 cranium. Purchased, 1877. 



48433. Cast of the left scapula ; same history. Pigured, op. cit. 

 pi. vii. Purchased, 1877. 



48439. Cast of the atlas vertebra; same history. Figured, op. cit. 



pi. vi. figs. 1, 2. Purchased, 1877. 



48430. Cast of the axis vertebra ; same history, figured, op. cit. 



pi. vi. figs. 8, 4. Purchased, 1877. 



48431. Cast of a lumbar vertebra ; same history. Figured, op. cit. 



pi. Ti. figs. 8, 9. Purchased, 1S77. 



Halitherium fossile (Blainville ^). 



Syn. Manatusfossil{s,'B\^\nyii\\Q^. 



Metaxytherium cordleri^ Ohristol^. 

 Halianassa cordieri, Meyer*. 



The length of the space occupied by the last three upper molars 

 is 0,071 ; and the species is thus larger than H. schinzi ; there is 

 no third lobe to the last lower molar (fig. 3). 



Hah. Europe. 



M. 3408. Two upper and lower hinder molars, perhaps belonging to 

 this species ; from the Middle Miocene of Chaze-Henry 

 (Maine-et-Loire), Erance. These teeth agree very closely 



'^ Ost6ographie— Genus Manatus, p. 81 (1844). — Manatus. 



* Loc. cit. Tlie name is said to be taken from Cuvier. 

 3 Ann. Sci. Nat. «cr. 2, vol. xv. p. 307 (1841). 



* In Bronn's ' Index Palaeontologicus,' p. 662 (1848). 



