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Genus PAL2EOMERYX, H. v. Meyer 1 . 

 Syn. Dremotherium, E. Geoffroy 2 . 

 Dicroceros, Lartet 3 . 

 Micromeryx, Lartet 4 . 

 Propalceomeryx, Lydekker 5 . 



The name Dremotherium has the priority over Palceomeryce, but as 

 the latter was more fully denned at the time of publication it has 

 been adopted : German writers adopt the latter, and French the 

 former. Piitimeyer remarks 6 that the dentition of Amphitragulus 

 is almost indistinguishable from that of Palceomeryx ; and the 

 present writer would have been fain to unite the two, were it 

 not that the same writer indicates certain cranial differences which 

 he regards as of importance. Certain specimens in the Museum, 

 which have been received with labels affixed to them bearing the 

 name Palceomeryx, cannot apparently be distinguished from Amphi- 

 tragulus. The molars of this and the next genus are less specialized 

 than those of the existing Cervidce ; but the two genera probably 

 pass gradually in one direction through the species unprovided with 

 antlers into Gelocus and its allies, and in the other direction through 

 the antlered forms into the more generalized species of antlered Deer 

 like Oervulus (?) dicranoceros, which is probably scarcely distinguish- 

 able from Palceomeryce. When antlers are present they are pedicled, 

 and of the simple type of the existing Cervidus. 



Dentition:— I. |, C. ( ^=^, Pm. f, M. §. 



Palseomeryx sivalensis, Lydekker 7 . 



Syn. Propalceomeryx sivalensis, Lydekker 8 . 



This is a large species, which, in the sense in which Palceomeryx 

 is hero employed, may probably be referred to that genus. 

 Hab. India. 



M. 1974. Cast of a left upper true molar, in a well-worn condition. 

 The original, which is the type, is from the Pliocene 

 Siwaliks near Uurki, N.W. India ; and is preserved in the 



1 Die fossile Knochen und Zakne von Georgensgmiind, p. 92 (1834). 



2 Eevue Encyclopedique, vol. lix. p. 82 (1833), teste Flower. 



3 Notice sur la Colline de Sansan, p. 34 (1851). 



4 Notice sur la Colline de Sansan, p. 36 (1851). 



5 Pal£eontologia Indica (Mem. Geol. Surv. Ind.), ser. 10, vol. ii. p. 173 (1883), 



6 Natiirliche Geschichte der Hirsche (Abh. schweiz. pal. Ges., 1883), pt. 2, 

 pp. 92-96. 



7 Palseontologia Indica (Mem. Geol. Surv. Ind.), ser. 10, vol.ii. p. 173 (1883), 

 </x. 8 Loc. cit. 



