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swelling out suddenly below the premolars, descends nearly vertically below them. 
In all these respects, indeed, the fossil under consideration differs as widely from 
M. indica in one direction, as If. sivalensis does in the other, and leads to the 
conclusion that it must be specifically distinct from both. From the locality 
whence it was obtained it is proposed to name this new species Mellivora punjabiensis. 
From the lower premolars of this species being more like those of M. indica, 
and from the direction of the molar series being approximately the same in the two 
species, it is perhaps, as already said, more likely that the present species, rather 
than M. sivalensis, should have been the ancestor of the living ratels. 
Distribution. — No more can be added regarding the distribution of the present 
species to what has been stated in relation to the distribution of M. sivalensis. 
G-enus II. : MELLIVORODON, n. gen. nobis. 
The characters of this genus, as far as they are at present known, will be given 
under the head of the one species. 
Species : Mellivorodon paljsindicus, nobis. 
History. — The new generic term Mellivorodon is applied here for the first time ; 
one of the specimens (pi. XXVII., fig. 7, 7a) on which the genus is founded has 
been, however, briefly noticed by the present writer and doubtfully referred to the 
genus Meles. 1 
Mandible . — The specimens on which the new genus is founded consist of two 
fragments of the mandible, represented from their outer sides in figures 7 and 8 of 
plate XXVII.; the dental aspect of the former specimen being represented in figure 
7a. Both specimens were collected by Mr. Theobald in the Siwaliks of the Punjab ; 
the former having been obtained at the village of Asnot, and the latter at the village 
of Niki. The specimen represented in figure 7 comprises the anterior portion of the 
ramus, broken off anteriorly in front of the canine, and posteriorly at the hinder 
extremity of the carnassial. The teeth shown in this specimen are, firstly, the broken 
base of the canine (fig. 7a : c), which is of very large size ; behind this there is the base 
of a very small pm. 2, filling up the interval between the canine and pm. 3 : the base 
of this tooth is very indistinct and scarcely visible in the figure. The third premolar 
(pm. 3) has only its base remaining, but of the fourth tooth of that series the nearly 
perfect crown, slightly abraded at its summit, still remains : pm. 3 and pm. 4 are 
nearly equal in length. The carnassial (m. 1) is an elongated tooth, imperfect 
superiorly and posteriorly. The second specimen (fig. 8) shows the hinder extremity 
of the horizontal ramus, broken off posteriorly at the ‘ angle.’ This fragment shows 
the complete crown of the carnassial (m. 1), with the blade slightly broken, and 
behind the carnassial the empty alveolus of the second true molar (m. 2). Although 
this specimen is slightly larger than the other, the dimensions and form of the 
carnassial, and of the mandible below it, are precisely similar to the corresponding 
i ‘ Records,’ vol. XI., p. 102. 
