SIWALIK AND NARBADA CARNIVORA. 
39—216 
Seeing that the most remarkable character of the aswail is its peculiarly aborted 
molar dentition, and that in its probable ancestor U. tJieobalcli this character was not 
nearly so well marked, it is pretty evident that the latter species forms a well-marked 
connecting link between the aswail and other bears, and renders it extremely 
problematical whether the sub-genus Melursus can henceforth be logically maintained. 
Distribution.— As the specimen described above is the only one yet known that 
can be referred to the present species, nothing further can be added regarding its 
distribution. 
Species 2. Ursus namadicus. Falc. and Caut. 
History. — The name of Ursus namadicus does not seem ever to have been 
published in Dr. Falconer’s lifetime, but appears for the first time in the u Palaeonto- 
logical Memoirs,” 1 where it is applied to two specimens in the British Museum figured 
in plate 0 of the supplement to the “ Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis the description of 
the figures having probably been compiled from Dr. Falconer’s manuscript. In the 
“ Palaeontological Memoirs ” 2 one of the specimens so designated is refigured with 
the same designation. 
Maxilla. — In figure 3 of plate XXVIII. of the present volume there is re- 
presented a part of the right maxilla of a bear from the Farbada deposits, which is 
the type specimen on which the present species is founded. This specimen is now 
in the British Museum (No. 39,720); and is also figured in plate 0, fig. 8 of the 
“Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis and (of one half the natural size) in plate XXVI., 
figure 5, of the first volume of the “ Palaeontological Memoirs.” It is described in 
the latter work as a “ portion of upper jaw with four molars of a smaller [in 
reference to Hycenarctos ] species of Bear, from the Nerbudda ” The 
specimen shows part of the palate, and in its present condition has only three teeth 
( pm. 4 ; . m, 1 j lm. 2) .; but in the figures above quoted there is also a relatively large 
pm. 3 in advance of the carnassial, which has been subsequently broken away. It 
will be seen from the figure that the specimen undoubtedly belongs to a true Ursus. 
In the first place the portion of the palate still attached to the specimen shows 
that this part is perfectly flat, while the cheek-teeth are relatively as large as those 
of typical macrodont bears. These characters show that the specimen can have no 
affinity with U . ' labiatus. The same characters, and the large size of pm. 4, also 
show that the specimen does not approach U. maritimus. The presence of a large 
tubercle to pm. 4 , the great proportionate width of the true molars, and the flatness 
of the palate indicate moreover that the specimen has no affinity with U. thcobaldi ; 
and comparisons may accordingly be confined to the typical macrodont forms. 
The teeth of the Narbada specimen are in an early stage of detrition ; the last 
molar is considerably damaged, and m. 1 has lost a small portion of its postero- 
external angle. The carnassial ( pm. 4 ) is relatively large, with a well-developed 
i Vol. I., p. 552. 
2 Ibid, pi. XXVI., fig. 5. 
