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44540. The shaft of an immature tibia ; from Benghisa gap. 

 {Fig.) Described and figured by Leith-Adams, op. cit. p. 63, 

 pi. xxi. fig. 13. 



Leith-Adams Collection. Purchased, 1873. 



44557. The shaft of an immature tibia ; from Benghisa gap. 

 {Fig.) Described and figured by Leith-Adams, op. cit. p. 63, 

 pi. xxi. figs. 14, 14 a. 



Leith-Adams Collection. Purchased, 1873. 



44562-3-4. The proximal extremities of three immature specime 

 of the tibia. Two are noticed by Leith-Adams, op. cit. 

 p. 63. Leith-Adams Collection. Purchased, 1873. 



49271-4 and 49303-8. Six specimens of the shaft of the immature 

 tibia, several of them being apparently foetal ; from 

 Zebbug cave. Spratt Collection. Presented, 1874-78. 



44535-41. The neural arch and the neural spines of immature 

 {Fig.) vertebrae ; from Benghisa gap. The former is figured by 

 Leith-Adams, op. cit. pi. xxi. fig. 11. 



Leith-Adams Collection. Purchased, 1873. 



44367. Portion of a rib. 



Leith-Adams Collection. Purchased, 1873. 



44536-42. Portions of immature ribs ; from Benghisa gap. One 

 {Fig.) is figured by Leith-Adams, op. cit. pi. xxi. fig. 12. 



Leith-Adams Collection. Purchased, 1873. 



Elephas melitensis, Falconer \ 



Including E. falconeri, Busk 2 . 

 Syn. Loxodon melitensis, auct. 



The relationship of the present species to E. mnaidriensis has been 

 mentioned under the latter head. The ridge-formula according to 

 Leith-Adams 3 is (exclusive of talons) Mm. B • s • (8 ~ 9) ivr (8-9) • "> • ^ 



' 3.5. (8-9), -M- (8-9) . 10 . 12' 



The typical form of the species is estimated to have occasionally 

 attained a height of five feet, while the smaller form (to which 

 Busk assigned the name E. falconeri) was only about three feet in 

 height 4 . Apart from their smaller size, and the tendency to a 

 slightly lower number of ridges, the molars are very similar to 

 those of E. mnaidriensis, but the plication of the enamel is frequently 



1 ' Parthenon,' Oct. 18, 1862, p. 780. 



2 Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. vi. p. 251 (1867— read 1865). 



• 3 Ibid. vol. ix. p. 112 (1874). 4 im p n6< 



