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FAUNA OF THE KARNUL CAVES. 
appendicular skeleton, from bed Ch in the Cathedral ; they are remarkable for their 
extremely fresh and unaltered appearance, from which circumstance, together with 
the fossorial habits of the species, it is probable that they are of later age than the 
bed in which they occur. A left mandibular ramus without teeth (No. F. 230, b) in 
a more mineralized condition from bed Ca in the same cave, and another belonging 
to the right side from the Purgatory cave (No. F. 230, c) may be apparently referred 
to the same species, and indicate its existence among the proper cave fauna. 
Humerus. — A left humerus from bed Ca in the Cathedral is represented in fig. 
9 of the same plate. This specimen is slightly smaller than the corresponding bone 
associated with the skull, but the difference is probably merely an individual one. 
Other specimens exhibit slight variations in both directions from the figured speci- 
mens, and it is not improbable that some of the larger ones may belong to H. smithi. 
Hespestes fuscus, Waterhouse. 
Mandible. — Of this small species, which occurs in Madras and Ceylon, 1 two man- 
dibular rami have been obtained from bed Cd in the Cathedral, of which the most 
perfect is represented in pi. VII. figs. 10, 10a. The figured specimen, which has lost 
all the teeth with the exception of pm. 4 and mil, agrees precisely with the mandible 
of the existing form. 
Humerus. — The left humerus represented in fig. 11 of the same plate is one of 
several specimens agreeing in relative size with the mandible, which are accordingly 
referred to the same species. These specimens were obtained from beds Ca and Cb 
of the Cathedral cave. 
Uksus labiatus, 2 Blainville. , 
Syn. Melursus nrsinus (Shaw). 
Humerus. — The imperfect distal extremity of a right humerus of this species 
represented from the palmar aspect in pi. VII. fig. 21 was obtained from the Chapter- 
House cave in a bed numbered Ab . 3 This specimen, which has lost the greater 
portion of the entepicondyle ( en.c .), agrees so exactly with the humerus of the 
existing form that there can be no reasonable doubt as to its specific identity. 4 
Distribution. — The species is spread over all southern and central India, and is 
probably descended from the Siwalik U. theobaldi . 5 
Soeex, sp. 
Crania. — The superficial layers of the caves have yielded several crania of shrews, 
measuring IT inches in length, which probably belong 6 to S. serpentarius, Geoffroy, 
and it was at first thought that three imperfect crania from bed Ca in the Cathedral 
1 The Ceylon form has been separated by some -writers as H. maccarthios. 
2 The reasons for adopting this name will be found in vol. II. p. 207. 
3 Mr. Foote has not published a section of the beds in this cave. 
4 It was suggested in the preliminary list that the specimen might perhaps belong to U. malayanus or TJ. namadicus. 
5 Supra, vol. II. p. 211. 6 In the preliminary list these specimens were provisionally referred to S. ccerulescens. 
