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hind talon consisting of large cusps. The mandibular symphysis is 

 unknown 1 , and the milk-molars have not yet been determined ; it 

 is uncertain whether jxremolars were developed. 

 Hab. India (Perim Island) 2 . 



M. 2882. The imperfect cranium, showing the broken bases of m- 2 

 {Fig.) and m- 3 of either side ; from the Pliocene Siwaliks of 

 Perim Island, Gulf of Cambay, India. This specimen is the 

 type, and is figured by Falconer and Cautley in the 

 * Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis,' pis. xxxviii., xxxix. The 

 molars are nearly parallel, with a comparatively narrow 

 interval between them. The dimensions of m. 2 are 0,115 

 X 0,078, and those of ^3 0,177 X 0,080. 



Presented by Captain G. Fulljames, 1849. 



40879. The palate, showing the worn m. 2 and the unworn but 

 broken mJS of either side ; from Perim Island. This 

 specimen corresponds exactly with the palate of the last 

 specimen ; the dimensions of the base of m. 2 being 0,120 

 X 0,078, and those of m^ 0,179 x 0,080. The third molar 

 is too imperfect to afford a satisfactory figure ; it has five 

 ridges and a small hind talon, the ridges being rather 

 narrow, the valleys much blocked, and the hinder ex- 

 tremity moderately tapering. 



Presented by C. Falconer, Esq., 1867. 



M 2851. Cast of the germ of the second left upper true molar, 

 imperfect anteriorly. The original is from Perim Island, 

 and is preserved in the Indian Museum, Calcutta (No. 

 A 355) ; it is figured by the present writer in the ' Palaeon- 

 tologia Indica,' ser. 10, vol. iii. pi. xvii. fig. 8 (the figure 

 being reproduced in woodcut, fig. 14). The dimensions of 

 this specimen are 0,138x0,081; audit appears (allow- 

 ing for the worn condition of the one) to agree exactly 

 with the corresponding tooth of No. 40679, and also with 

 the specimen of the opposite side figured in ' Falconer's 

 Palaeontological Memoirs,' vol. i. pi. ix. fig. 6. 



Made in the Museum, 1885. 



1 The specimens figured in the ' Palasontologia Indica,' ser. 10, vol. i. pis. xl.- 

 xlii. (except pi. xli. fig. 4), are now referred to a distinct species (M. punjabi- 

 ensis, q. v.). 



2 A tooth from China figured by Koken in the Pal. Abhand. vol. iii. pt. 2, 

 pi. vii. fig. 1 (1885), under this name is probably specifically distinct. 



