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Show 1906.] A NEW FOREST-PIG. 3 the teeth, as might be seen by a comparison of the figures (text - fig. 1) now given with those formerly published. The skull itself was comparatively light and delicate, with a low muzzle and slender zygomata. Its dimensions were as follows :- Basal length (approximate) 325 m m . ; zygomatic breadth 176 ; nasals, length 191, breadth 42; interorbital breadth 88; height of muzzle in front of premolars 57 ; least breadth of maxillary zygomatic processes, below orbit, 42 ; least vertical breadth of zygomata, behind true orbit, 36 ; palatal length 232; breadth across sockets of canines 98; breadth between tips of canines 181; greatest diameter of canines 24; length of upper tooth-row, from front of p3 97 ; m3, length 42-3, breadth 17*5 ; length of lower tooth-row, from front of p4, 99 ; m a 48'2 x 16. Text-fig. 1. a, upper, and b, lower right molars of Hylochcerus rimator. Type. Old female skull. B.M. No. 6.2.21.1. Collected by Mr. G. L. Bates. Native name " Engak " (G. L. Bates). The remarkable character of the suppression of p4 and persistence of mp4, described in the typical specimens of H. meinertzhageni, was present in this specimen, as in other examples of the genus since received, and was evidently normal. Another interesting point to be noticed was that the prenasal bone in all fully adult specimens of Hylochcerus was firmly united to an ossified mesethmoid. The following papers were read :- 1* |