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benefit of the Vienna Museum, and the result of their work has 
been to considerably widen our knowledge of that rich fauna. Dr. 
A. Weithofer describes as new Mustela paleattica, Machairodus 
schlosseri, Camelopardalis parva, Helicoceras rotundicorne, an 
Varanus marathonensis, and mentions some avian remains of as yet 
undetermined forms, two of which seem to belong to the genus 
Gallus. A species of Felis, mentioned but not described by Gaudry 
in 1862 as at least equal in size to the largest jaguar, is by Dr. 
Weithofer described as F. leiodon. Helicoceras rotundicorne is a 
gazelle-like antelope with rather large and spiial horns. 
A. S. Woodward (Geol. Mag., July, 1887) describes Arius eger- 
toni and A. (?) bartonensis, two forms of siluroids from the Middle 
and Upper Eocene beds of Bracklesham and Barton (England). 
Van Beneden (Zeitschr. deutsch. geol., Ges. 1887) has described 
Cetacean remains from the northern slopes of the Caucasus. These 
remains probably belong to the genera Squalodon and Cetotherium. 
The age is Upper Miocene. 
PLEISTOCENE.—The exploration of the caves in the Karnul dis- 
trict of Madras, conducted by Mr. R. B. Foote, has resulted in the 
finding of about forty species of Mammalia, of which Mr. R. Ly- 
dekker (Mem. Geol. Surv., India, Ser. X., Vol. IV., Pt. 2) describes 
as new Viverra karnuliensis, Hystrix crassidens, Atherwra karnuli- 
ensis, Rhinoceros karnuliensis, and Sus karnuliensis. The most 
important of the Karnul caves are those of Billa Surgam, which 
consist of three short and deep cafions joined by natural arches, and 
with caves opening into them at various levels. The comparatively 
wee number of extinct forms and forms not now to be found in 
India that occur in these deposits renders it probable that they are 
malian fauna that has been recently found at Voklinshofen, one 
Colmar. Twenty-nine forms are listed, most of them ne oes 
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