35 
FAUNA OF THE KARNUL CAVES. 
associated. The specimen represented in woodcut fig. 1 A is from bed Ca in the 
Cathedral, and belongs to a fully adult male, the molars being well worn. The 
Fig. 1. Gerbillus indicns. The left ramus of the mandible (i) and grinding surface of the lower molars (f). 
A. belongs to an adult male and is from bed Ca in the Cathedral ; while B. belongs to an immature female, 
and is from bed X in the Charnel-House. (Indian Museum, No. F. 338). 
smaller specimen represented in fig. 1 B has the molars much less worn, and may 
probably be referred to an immature female ; it was obtained from bed X in the 
Charnel-House. The length of the space occupied by the three molars in this 
specimen is 0-24 inch, against 028 in the larger example; 1 the size of the teeth in 
the former being not greater than in Cr. hurriance of north India and Persia. Since, 
however, the structure of the molars and incisors is similar to that obtaining in 6r. 
indicus and quite distinct from that of 0. hurriance , 2 there seems no doubt that the 
specimen must be regarded as belonging to a small example of the former species. 
Nesokia bandicoota (Bechstein). 
Syn. Nesolda gigantea , Auct. 
Maxilla and mandible. — Three fragments of maxillae and three left mandibular 
rami, the majority 3 of which were obtained from bed H in the Charnel-House, 
belong to this species. Although the burrowing habits of these animals might 
account for the occurrence of their bones among the pleistocene fauna, yet the con- 
dition of the specimens of this and the next species indicates that they were probably 
contemporaries. One of the mandibular rami, in which the incisor has been pushed 
back in its socket, is represented in pi. VIII. figs. 15, 15a. The great width of the 
incisors characteristic of the genus 4 is well shown in this specimen. 
Limb-bones. — To this species 5 may probably be referred the imperfect humerus 
and femur represented in pi. VIII. figs. 1 and 2 ; while the larger femur represented 
in fig. 3 of the same plate may perhaps belong to an unusually large individual of 
the same species. These bones are relatively stouter than the corresponding elements 
of the skeleton of Mus decumanus. 
Nesokia kok, Gray. 
Crania. — The imperfect cranium of this species represented in pi. VIII. figs. 13, 
1 In the enlarged figures the artist has made the teeth of the two specimens too nearly equal in size. 
2 See Blanford, “Zoology and Geology of Eastern Persia,” p. 69. (1876). 
3 Owing to the breaking of these specimens in transit their numbers were partially destroyed. 
4 The genus occurs in the Siwaliks ; see ‘ Cat. Foss. Mamm. Brit. Mus.’ pt. I. p. 226. (1885). 
5 There is no example of the skeleton of a Nesokia in the British Museum. 
