SIWALIK AND NARBADA CARNIVORA. 
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Genus. MELLIVORA, Storr. 
Synonyms. Batelus, Ben* TJrsitaxus, Hodgson. 
General . — The dentition of the genus has been already alluded to under the 
head of the sub-family. At the present time a living representative of the genus is 
found throughout India, known as M. inclica , while another form occurs in Africa, 
which has been named M. capensis. Dr. Sclater has, however, come to the conclusion 1 
that it is extremely doubtful whether the Indian and Cape ratels can be specifically 
distinguished, since an African form described by him when young under the 
provisional name of M. leuconota, when adult could scarcely be distinguished from 
M. indica. There do not appear to be any well-marked characters by which the 
skulls of the Indian and African forms can be distinguished. It is believed that- the 
two Siwalik species described below are the only fossil representatives of the genus. 
Species 1 . Mellivora sivalensis, (Falc. and Caut.) 
Synonyms. TJrsitaxus sivalensis , Falc. and Caut. 
Gulo, sp., Baker and Durand. 
History . — The first mention of the specific name of this species appears to be 
in the posthumous description of the supplemental plates of the “ Fauna Antiqua 
Sivalensis,” 2 where a very perfect cranium is figured (pi. Q., figs. 4, 4a, 4b, 4c) 
under the name of TJrsitaxus sivalensis. This specimen is now in the British Museum 
(No. 40,184), and is one of two skulls and a mandible obtained from the typical 
Siwaliks of the neighbourhood of the Ganges valley, and originally figured and 
described in the “ Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal ” 3 by the late Cols, (then' 
Lieuts.) Sir W. E. Baker and Sir H. M. Durand under the name of Gulo , — the 
living ratels being then referred to that genus. The second skull and the ramus of 
the mandible are now in the Science and Art Museum in Dublin; by which 
institution, in company with several other fine remains of Siwalik carnivora, mostly 
from Messrs. Baker and Durand’s collection, they are stated to have been purchased 
many years ago from a Dr. Beattie. 4 
At a later date a fragment of the mandible of a ratel from the Siwaliks of 
the Punjab was briefly described by the writer, and referred to the present 
species. 5 It will, however, be shown below that this specimen belongs to a distinct 
species. These four specimens are the only known fossil remains of the genus, 
and form the subject of the present notice. 
Cranium. — In plate XXVI. of the present memoir the four figures of the 
cranium given in the “ Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis ” have been copied : they represent 
l ‘Pro. Zool. Soc ,’ 1871, p. 232. 2 See “ Palaeontological Memoirs,” vol. I., p. 553. 
3 Vol. V., p. 581, plate XXVII., figs. 4-8 — 1830. 4 These two specimens bear the number 45. 
5 “ Rec. Geol. Surv. India,” vol. XI., p. 102. 
