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each other by a considerable interval; lips very large, extensile; palate 
deeply concave. Claws very large and powerful; snout elongate and 
mobile. Hair black, coarse, very long; light horse-shoe-shaped mark 
present on chest; 'end of muzzle ashy gray. Otherwise as in Ursus. Verte- 
brae: C. 7, D. 15, L. 5, S. 5, Cd. 11. Indian Peninsula and Ceylon. Syns.: 
Chondrorhynchus ° Fischer, 1814, Zoognosia, v. 3, 142-143, tsd. (1904) 
ursinus Shaw; Prochilus ^ Illiger, 1811, Prodr. Syst. Mamm., 109, mt. 
ursinus Shaw=(1904) labiatus Blainville [not Prochilus Walbaum, 1792, 
Pisces]; Prochylus ™ Wiegmann, 1835, Archiv Naturg., v. 2, 321. 
#574 Melursus [or Prochilus ^] labiatus » (Blainv., 1817, Bui. Soc. Philom., 
Paris, May, 74 [Ursus i], ursinus renamed) Greve, 1894, Nova Acta Acad. 
Leop., Halle, 243. So. #574 Melursus ursinus, q. v. 
:#574 Melursus ursinus (Shaw, 1791, Nat. Misc., v. 2, pi. 58 [Bradypus •]) 
Blanford, 1888, Fauna Brit. India, Mamm., 201. Aswal or Sloth bear or 
Indian bear, Lippenbar, Adam-zdd, Asol, Aswail, Bana, Bhalii, Bhaliik, Bir- 
menai, Bir Mendi, Elugu, Kaddi, Karadi, Pani-karadi, Pani Karudi, Riksha, 
Rich or Rinch, Usa, Yedjal, Yerid. Interior parts of Bengal *; Peninsula of 
India from near the base of the Himalayas to Cape Comorin, and Ceylon, 
chiefly in hilly and jungle parts. 
Ancylostoma t387. Toxascaris t486. 
'fbrasiliense. transfuga. — India. 
1[caninum. — India. Dermacentor t873. — Ext. 
\ceylanicum auratus. — United Pro v., India. 
^malayanum. 
#575. Tlialarctos Gray, 1825, Ann. Phil., n. s., v. 10, July, 62, mt. yolaris 
Gray so. maritimus Phipps. — Polar bears, Polargebiet. Cheek-teeth rela- 
tively small; incisors and canines enlarged and unusually prehensive in char- 
acter. Similar to Ursus, but cheek-teeth much less robust, the combined 
length of the two upper molars not equal to width of palate; canines and 
incisors enlarged and more prehensive in general form. North Polar region, 
south to northernmost continental coasts. Syns.: Thalassarctos Gray, 1825, 
Ann. Phil., n. s., v. 10, Nov., 339, no species cited; Thalassarctus Gloger, 
1842, Hand-u. Hilfs. Naturg., v. 1, pp. xxviii, 54, mt. maritimus; Tha- 
lassiarchus ° Kobelt, 1896, Bericht Senck. naturf. Gesellsch. Frankfurt am 
Main, 93, mt. maritimus. 
#575 Thalarctos [or Thalassarctos, Thalassarctus] {Thalassarctos, Thalassarctus) 
maritimus (Phipps, 1774, Voy. toward North Pole, London, 185 [Ursus •]) 
Gray, "1849", Zool. "Samarang", 36. Polar bear, ours blanc, Eisbar, 
Polarbar, Isbjornen. Spitzbergen *; Arctic Ocean, south on floating ice 
occasionally to northern coast of Norway. Details of distribution unknown. 
Cf. also Linn., 1758a, 47, for name maritimus. 
Bothriocephalus ' <t286. — Intest. 
species Foot, 1865. — Dublin Zoo. 
Diphyllobothrium t295. 
-flatum. 
Taenia ' t325. — Intest. 
ursi-maritimi. — Mus. Paris. — T. h. 
Haemonchus t417. 
^*contortus. — Phila. Zoo. 
Toxascaris t486.— Sm. intest. 
transfuga. 
Trichinella t366. 
^spiralis. — Phila. Zoo. 
Uncinaria 390B. — Intest. 
[ursi. — Mus. Wien; Mus. Paris. 
[ursi-maritimi °.] 
