194. CARNTVORA. 
Lutra valetoni, E. Geoffroy’. 
Syn. Potamotherium valetoni, K. Geoffroy ?. 
Lutrictis valetoni, Pomel?. 
Stephanodon mombachiensis, H. von Meyer *. 
Lutra clermontensis, Blainville® (in parte). 
Deniition :—I. 2 C. = Pm. a M. 3. 
Hab. Europe. 
In his memoir on the Fossil Mammals of St. Gérand-le-Puy’, 
Filhol refers this species to the genus Lutra; and the present 
writer is inclined to adopt this view. If it be referred to a distinct 
genus, the name Potamotherium is the correct one’. 
31031. Fragment of the right maxilla and premaxilla, containing 
the canine and pm. 2; from the Lower Miocene of Allier, 
France. Bravard Collection. Purchased, 1852. 
25448. The left ramus of the mandible wanting the proximal 
extremity, and containing the canine and all the cheek- 
teeth except m. 2; from the Lower Miocene of Mombach, 
near Mayence. Purchased, 1850. 
31032. Hinder portion of the left ramus of the mandible, con- 
taining the carnassial; from the Lower Miocene of Allier. 
Bravard Collection. Purchased, 1852. 
31033. Fragment of the right ramus of the mandible, containing 
the carnassial 72 alveolo; from the Lower Miocene of 
Allier. Bravard Collection. Purchased, 1852, 
26699. The left humerus, imperfect superiorly, showing the ent- 
epicondylar foramen; from the Lower Miocene of St. 
Gérand-le-Puy (Allier), France. } 
Pomel Collection. Purchased, 1851. 
31040. The right humerus, wanting the proximal extremity; from 
the Lower Miocene of Allier. 
Bravard Collection. Purchased, 1852 
1 Revue Encyclopédique, vol. lix. p. 88 (1833). 2 Loe. cu. 
8 Bull. Soc. Géol. France, ser. 2, vol. iv. p. 380 (1846). 
4 Neues Jahrb. 1847, p. 182. 
° Ostéographie, genus Mustela, p. 59 (18427). 
6 Ann. Sci. Géol. vol. x. art. 3, p. 58. 
7 In the ‘ Palzontologia Indica,’ ser. 10, vol. ii. p. 190, the present writer,-who 
had not, at the time of writing the passage, entered into the question of priority, 
followed Gaudry in referring the present species to Pomel’s genus Lutrictis. 
