144 EDENTATA. 



Siwaliks (Lower Pliocene or Upper Miocene) of Sind, and is 

 figured by the writer in the ' Palseontologia Tudica,' ser. 10, 

 vol. i. pi. viii. figs. 11-14, under the name of Manis, and 

 in vol. iv. p. 50, woodcut, fig. 4, of the same work, under 

 the present generic name. Presented by the Director 



of the Geological Survey of India, 1886. 



Macrotherium giganteum (Meyer ^ [ex Cuv.]). 



Syn. Pangolin gigantesque, Cuvier^. 

 Manis gigantea, Meyer ^. 

 Macrotherium sansaniense, Lartet*. 



Although the name Pangolin gigantesque or Manis gigantea (which 

 was applied to a phalangeal from Eppelsheim) was really preoccu 

 pied by lUiger's term for the large existing Manis of West Africa,, 

 yet it seems advisable to retain the specific name in conjunction 

 with Macrotherium, rather than to substitute Lartet's name of M. 

 sansaniense, which was applied to the apparently identical Sansan 

 form^ The species was apparently nearly as large as Mylodon 



Hah Europe. 



M. 418. Cast of the imperfect terminal phalangeal of the third (?) 

 digit of the (probably) pes. The original, which is rather 

 more incomplete than the cast, was obtained from the 

 bone-sand of Eppelsheim, Hessen-Darmstadt, and is the 

 type of the species ; it is figured by Cuvier in the ' Osse- 

 mens Fossiles,' 2nd ed. vol. v. pt. 1, pi. xvi. figs. 2Q, 27, 

 under the name of Pangolin gigantesque, and by Kaup in 

 the ' Oss. Eoss. de Darmstadt,' pt. 4, pi. ii. his, figs. 6, 7, 8, 

 as Dinotherium giganteum. 



Egerton Collection. Purchased, 1882. 



21492. The terminal phalangeal of the third (?) digit of the (pro- 

 bably) manus ; from Eppelsheim. This specimen is con- 

 siderably larger than the preceding ; and is therefore, in 

 accordance with Gaudry's provisional determination of the 

 homologous bones of Ancylotherium jpentelici, referred to 

 the fore limb. Purchased, 1847 



1 Pal{fiologica, p. 63 (1832).— Mawis. 



'^ Ossemens Fossiles, 2nd ed. vol. v. pt. i. p. 193 1823), 



3 Loc. cit. 



* Annuaire du Departement du Gars, 1839, teste Lartet ; see Note, p. 143. 



5 In Gervais's Zool. et Pal. Franc;aise8, 1st ed. pt. 1, p. 13G (1848-52), the 

 name M. giyanteum is applied to the Sansan form as a misquotation from. 

 Lartet. 



