. Catalogue of the fossil Mammalia in the British museum, (Natural History). Mammals, Fossil. 248 KODEXTIA. Hystrix, sp. Bab. Italy. 29692. The right upper premolar ; from the Upper Pliocene of the Yal d'Arno, Italy. This specimen is smaller than H. refossa (No. 34959), and the folds of the enamel are apparently simpler. Presented by the Earl of Ennishillen, 1855. 29692 a. Terminal portion of an incisor ; from the Upper Pliocene of the Yal d'Arno. Egerton Collection. Purchased, 1882. Hystrix sivalensis, Lydekker1. This species is founded on the evidence of a fragment of the man- dible, from th
. Catalogue of the fossil Mammalia in the British museum, (Natural History). Mammals, Fossil. 248 KODEXTIA. Hystrix, sp. Bab. Italy. 29692. The right upper premolar ; from the Upper Pliocene of the Yal d'Arno, Italy. This specimen is smaller than H. refossa (No. 34959), and the folds of the enamel are apparently simpler. Presented by the Earl of Ennishillen, 1855. 29692 a. Terminal portion of an incisor ; from the Upper Pliocene of the Yal d'Arno. Egerton Collection. Purchased, 1882. Hystrix sivalensis, Lydekker1. This species is founded on the evidence of a fragment of the man- dible, from the Siwaliks of the Punjab, India, figured in the accom- panying woodcut (fig. 32), and is described by the writer in the Fig. j?m. 4. m.\. m. 2. m. 3. Hystrix sivalensis.—Fragment of the right ramus of the mandible ; from the Siwaliks of the Punjab. \. Indian Museum, Calcutta. (From the ' Palseontologia Indica.') ' Palseontologia Indica,' ser. 10, vol. iii. p. 109 ; the characteristic point of the specimen being the short crowns of the cheek-teeth. Hab. India. 15923. The greater portion of the cranium and mandible of a young {Fig.) Porcupine ; from the Pliocene of the Siwalik Hills, India. This specimen, of which the cranium is figured in the accompanying woodcut (fig. 33), has been described and figured by the present writer in the ' Palseontologia Indica,' ser. 10, vol. iii. pp. 110, 111, and provisionally referred to the present species. The cranium has suffered considerably from crush, and has lost the nasals and a part of the maxilla. In the upper jaw there are only two teeth, and but three in the lower; thus showing that the 1 Eec. Geol. Surv. Ind. vol. xi. p. 100 (1878).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Geology; Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1
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