112 EDENTATA. 



is given on the authority of Leidy, ' Smiths. Contrib, Knowl.' vol. vii. 

 art. 5, p. 4 (1855). 



Hob. North America (Tennessee, Mississippi, Virginia, and 

 Alabama). 



41143. Cast of the cranium, wanting the zygomatic arches, and 

 showing the caniniform teeth of both sides, and the first 

 three molars on the right and the last three on the left 

 side. The original was obtained from the Pleistocene of 

 Henderson County, Kentucky ; it appears to be the speci- 

 men figured by Leidy in the ' Smiths. Contrib. Knowl.* 

 vol. vii. art. 5, pis. i.-iv. Purchased, 1868. 



The originals of the following specimens were obtained from Big- 

 Bone Cave, White Coimty ^, Tennessee, and are preserved in 

 the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia ; 

 they are described and figured by Harlan in his ' Medical and 

 Physical Researches,^ p. 319, pi. xiii. All the casts belong to the 

 ^antell Collection, purchased, 1836. 



7376. Cast of a portion of a tooth, including the termination of the 



pulp-cavity. This specimen appears to be the one figured 

 by Owen in the ' Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle,' 

 pt. 1, pi. xvii. fig. 2, under the name of M. laqueatus, and 

 agrees in contour with the one figured by Leidy in the 

 ' Smiths. Contrib. Knowl.' vol. vii. art. 5, pi. vi. fig. 7, and 

 pi. xvi. fig. 5. 



7368. Cast of the left humerus, imperfect distally. A less imperfect 



specimen is figured by Leidy, op. cit. pi. ix. figs. 1-4. 



7366. Cast of the immature right humerus, wanting the distal 

 epiphysis. 



7369. Cast of the immature right radius, wanting the distal 



epiphysis. 



7374. Cast of the right ulna. 



7371. Cast of the distal epiphysis of the right femur. 



7377. Cast of the left tibia, wanting the distal epiphysis. 

 7364. Cast of the distal epiphysis of the right tibia. 



7363. Cast of the right calcaneiim. Figured by Harlan, op. cit. 

 pi. xvi., as the ilium. 



^ This name has apparently given rise to the ' White Cave,' from which the 

 specimens have been said to liave been obtained. 



