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CARNIVORA. 
Dentition :-—I. ss C. A Pm. a M. 3. This species is about the size 
2 
of the existing Stoat. 
Hab. France. 
31018. Anterior portion of the cranium of an immature individual, 
wanting all the teeth except the milk and permanent 
carnassials, the latter of which is just protruding on the 
left side; from the Lower Miocene of Allier, France. 
This specimen appears to be precisely similar to the one 
figured by Filhol in the Ann. Sci. Géol. vol. x. pl. xxv. 
figs. 1, 4. Bravard Collection. Purchased, 1852. 
31019. Fragment of the right ramus of the mandible, containing the 
last two premolars and the carnassial; from the Lower 
Miocene of Allier. This specimen is precisely similar to 
the one figured by Filhol in figs. 6 and 7 of the plate 
quoted above. Bravard Collection. Purchased, 1852. 
Mustela waterhousei (Pomel ’). 
Syn. Plesvogale waterhouset, Pomel ?. 
OO 8 3 1 2 : 
Dentition:—I. 39 C. TD Pm. 2 M. 3° 
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Hab. France. 
27815. Fragment of the left ramus of the mandible, containing the 
(fig.) 
two last premolars and the carnassial, of which the inner 
cusp is broken off; from the Lower Miocene of Ronzon 
(Puy-en-Velay), France. This specimen is the type of 
the species, and is described by Pomel in the following 
words :—‘“ Kspece un peu plus petite que le putois, re- 
marquable par Vacuité des avant-molaires inférieures. 
Cette espéce et la suivante[ I. mustelina |nous montrent que 
Vapophyse coronoide est trés-élargie au soumet et comme 
terminee en fer de hache. La grande étendue de la fosse 
mass¢térine achéve d’indiquer une trés-grande force dans 
Vappareil musculaire qui mouvait les machoires”. It 
would appear that the coronoid process has been broken 
off since the time of Pomel’s description. In the Ann. 
Sci. Géol, vol. x. art. 3, p. 183, pl. xxv. fig. 10, Filhol 
describes and figures a right ramus of the mandible from 
» Catalogue Méthodique, p. 49 (1853), Plesiogale. * Loe. cit. 
