149—8 INDIAN TERTIARY AND POST-TERTIARY YERTEBRATA. 
7. Anthracotherium magnum, 1 (Cuvier). Up. eocene ; Europe. 
A avernum, Kefst. 
8. Anthracotherium silistrense, 2 (Pentlancl). Earlier pliocene (?) ; India. 
The following species must be abolished, viz : — • 
A. choe?vides. Brav. 
A. lembronicum. Brav. 
A. Mininum C\xviex=Hjyotherium or Choeromorus ( teste Gervais). 
A. minutum Cuvier= Dichodon or Amphitragiilus . 
A. parisiensis Blain= Choeropoiamus. 
A. sandbergi ? 
A. velaimum ~P>\a\xv=Hyopotainus. 
Species 1. Anthracotherium silistrense. Pentland, in parte. 
Synonyms. Anthracotherium punjabiense , Nobis. 
Ghoeromeryx, Poniel, in parte. 
Bhagatherium f?J sindiense, Nobis. 
History . — In the year 1829, Mr. Pentland described and figured in the 
“ Transactions of the Geological Society of London,” 3 certain mammalian remains 
obtained by Sir Thomas Colebrooke, from the Siwaliks of Karibari (Caribaree), in 
the Garo hills of north-eastern Bengal, in, or adjoining, the district of Sylhet. 4 
These remains comprehended a few specimens of upper molar teeth of small pig-like 
animals, which were all referred by their original describer to a single species, under 
the name of Anthracotherium silistrense . 5 In the year 1848, M. Pomel 6 referred, 
apparently all, these figured specimens, to a new genus, for which he proposed the 
name of Ghoeromeryx . 7 In the u Records of the Geological Survey of India ” for 
1877, 8 a five columned upper molar tooth from the lower Manchhars of Sind was 
described by the present writer, under the name of Ghoeromeryx silistrensis, since it 
agreed in form with one of the specimens described by Mr. Pentland as 
Anthracotherium silistrense , and subsequently referred by M. Pomel to Ghoeromeryx. 
In the same paper 9 a portion of the mandible of a small selenodont pig-like animal, 
collected by Mr. Theobald in the Siwaliks of the Punj ab ; was described under the 
name of Anthracotherium punjabiense. At a later date 10 it was shown that Mr. 
Pentland’s original specimens in reality belonged to two distinct genera 
of selenodont pigs, one of which belonged to the pentecuspidate, and the other 
to the tetracuspidate group, and that the name Ghoeromeryx should be confined to the 
latter. It was at the same time considered that the Sind tooth mentioned above, and 
Mr. Pentland’s pentecuspidate specimen, might belong to the genus Bhagatherium , 
and the specific name sindiense was proposed for them. In the following year it was 
shown 11 that the two latter teeth really belonged to Anthracotherium , and 
1 Blainville, “ Osteographie.” Anthracotherium. 2 Vide infra. 3 Ser. 2, Vol. II., p. 393,- pi. 45. 
4 The locality is given by Sir T. Colebrooke, as the left hank of the Bramaputra above Mohendroganj ; hut it appears that 
the river has changed its course since that time. 5 The Latinised name of Sylhet. ' 6 “ Comptes Rendus,” 1848, p. 687. 
7 Erom Choiro.i, a pig, and menix, a ruminant. 8 Vol. X., p. 77. 9 loo oil, p. 78. 
10 Ibid, p. 225. ii G. S. I.,” Vol. XI., p. 77. 
