10:2 Records of the Geological Burveg of India. [vOL. xi. 
Genus: Felis. 
Of a large Felis, whicli is probably F. cristata of Falconer, Mr. Theobald has 
obtained from Asnot the patella, the distal half of the femur, several metatarsal 
and phalangeal bones, and the olecranon. 
Of a smaller species, the radius, the calcaneum, and a portion of the left 
ramus of a mandible containing the alveolus of the canine, and the two premolars 
have also been obtained. I can at present say nothing as to the species to which 
this lower jaw belonged ; it possibly belonged to the same species as the cranium 
figured on plate XXVII, fig. I, of the fifth volume of the “Journal of the Asiatic 
Society of Bengal.” 
Genus: Htsna. 
Of this genus Mr. Theobald has collected a tolerably perfect adult cranium, a 
broken adolescent cranium, exhibiting the carnassial in its alveolus, and a ramus 
of the mandible ; all the specimens seem to belong to one species. 
Genus: Mellivora. 
In the unpublished plates of the “ Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis ” (Q, fig. 4), there 
occurs a figure of a cranium which in the Index to the Plates is named TJrsitaxus 
sivalensis; now, the generic name Frsituxus was proposed by Hodgson ‘ for the 
Indian ratel, but is now di.sused in favor of Mellivora; TJrsUaxus sivalensis of 
Falconer will therefore hei’e and henceforth be called by me Mellivora sivalensis. 
The above-mentioned cranium seems to be the same as that figured on plate 
XXVII, fig. 4, of the fifth volume of the “ Jovirnal of the Asiatic Society of 
Bengal ” under the generic name of Gulo: the specimen is now in the British 
Museum. On fig. 6 of the same plate of the “Journal of the Asiatic Society 
of Bengal,” a nearly complete light ramus of the mandible of the same genus is 
also figured ; this specimen is not refigured in the “ Fauna Anti qua Sivalensis,” 
and I do not know what has become of it. 
From the Siwaliks of Asnot, Mr. Theobald has sent the dental portion of a 
right ramus of the mandible of a species of Mellivora, vrhich agrees precisely 
with the above-mentioned figured jaw; the specimen is somewhat larger than 
the mandible of M. mdica, while the figured fossil cranium is mther smaller 
than that of M. mdica. These differences in the relative size of the two fossil 
specimens may be merely due to sex, as there is considerable variation in the 
size of the sexes of many Garnivora; consequently the new lower jaw may jiro- 
bably be referred to M. sivalensis. Except in the matter of size, I can see no 
difference between the mandible of M. sivalensis and M. irulica, and they must 
have been at all events very closely allied. 
Genus: Mbles (?). 
In addition to the last specimen, Mr. Theobald has obtained from Asnot the 
left ramus of a mandible which emdently belonged to some animal allied to the 
badgers, though I cannot be sure of the genus. The specimen shews the base 
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