144 CARNIVORA. 
M. 1695. Upper portion of the left femur. This specimen agrees 
very closely with one from the Lower Miocene figured by 
Filhol (op. ct. fig. 3), under the same name. 
Purchased, 1884. 
M. 1713. The axis vertebra of a large Carnivore. This specimen is 
about 14 times the size of the axis vertebra from the Lower 
Miocene, figured by Filhol in the Ann. Sci. Géol. vol. x. 
pl. xi. fig. 2, and referred to A. lemanensis; but does 
not appear much too large for the cranium figured in the 
same plate. | Purchased, 1884. 
M. 1714. The calcaneum, nearly of the same size as the specimen 
from the Lower Miocene figured by Filhol in the Ann, 
Sci. Géol. vol. x. pl. xvi. fig. 6. 
M. 1715. Two smaller calcanea. Purchased, 1884. 
M. 1716. Two right astragali. The larger may be feline. 
Purchased, 1884. 
M. 1717. Numerous metapodial bones. Purchased, 1884. 
M. 1718. Several caudal vertebre. Purchased, 1884. 
Genus SIMOCYON, A. Wagner’. 
Syn. Metarctos, Gaudry?. 
Pseudocyon, Wagner . 
History. The history of this genus is rather complex. In 1833 
Kaup (Oss. Foss. de Darmstadt, pt. 11. p. 15) described and figured 
a lower jaw from Eppelsheim (of which, according to Gaudry, he 
had given a preliminary notice in 1882), under the name of G'ulo dia- 
phorus. In 1854 Roth and Wagner (Abh. math.-phys. Cl. k.-bay. Ak. 
Wiss. vol. vii. pl. ii.) figured part of a lower jaw from Pikermi under 
the name of G'ulo primigenius. Later on Wagner described another 
specimen under the name of Canis lupus primigenius. In 1857 (op. 
cit. vol. villi. p. 128, pl. vi. fig. 13) he figured a perfect skull and 
mandible under the name of Pseudocyon robustus, referring to it both 
his Gulo primigenius and Canis lupus primigenus. Inthe following 
year (‘Geschichte der Vorwelt,’ vol. i1.), according to Hensel, finding 
that the term Pseudocyon was preoccupied, Wagner proposed the 
new generic term Stmocyon. In 1860 Gaudry (‘Comptes Rendus,’ 
1 Geschichte der Vorwelt, vol. ii. (1858) (deste Hensel). 
2 Comptes Rendus, vol. li. p. 926 (1860). 
3 Abh. math.-phys. Ol. k.-bay. Ak. Wiss. vol. viii. p. 128 (1857). 

