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Show 1906.] ON POXES OF THE LYNX FROM DB&BYSHJBE. 65 b. Toes more than half-webbed. 1. A tarsal fold N. hosii. 2. No tarsal fold. a. Tympanum hidden N. parvipahnata. ]3. Tympanum visible, its diameter less than that of the eye; two metatarsal tubercles. * Fingers very slightly webbed at the base, the first equal to | of the second N. everetti. ** Fingers very distinctly webbed at the base, the first equal to about \ of the second N. tuberculosa. *** Fingers ^ webbed, the web extending as a margin to their tips; the first equal to h of the second N. guentheri. y. Tympanum visible, equal to the diameter of the eye; only one metatarsal tubercle N. macrotis. B. Tibio-tarsal articulation reaching at least the end of the snout. a. Tympanum visible, equal to f the diameter of the eye ... N. signata. b. Tympanum hidden; tibio-tarsal articulation reaching beyond the end of the snout N. macula ta. EXPLANATION OF PLATE II. Fig. 1. Nectophryne hosii Blgr., p. 59, female, f nat. size. 1 a. Side view 2. Nectophryne everetti Blgr., p. 61, type. Nat. size. 2 a. Side view of head, Xl|. 3. Nectophryne macrotis Blgr., p. 63, type. Nat. size. 3 a. Side view of head, X 2. 4. Nectophryne tornieri Roux, p. 63, type. Nat. size. 4rr. Side view of head, X \\. 5. On some Bones of the Lynx from Cales Dale, Derbyshire. By W . STORRS FOX, M.A., F.Z.S. [Received October 25, 1905.] (Text-figure 26.) Remains of the Lynx have so rarely been found in the British Isles, that the recent discovery of some in a Derbyshire cave will, I hope, be considered to be worth recording. The history of the two former finds maybe briefly stated. About the year 1866, the hinder portion of a skull and the right ramus of the lower jaw of this species were discovered in Pleasley Yale, on the borders of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, and are now in the Nottingham University Museum. Some fourteen years later a humerus and a metatarsal of the same species were found in Teesdale by the late Mr. James Backhouse, and are still in his son's museum at York. Thus, until the Cales Dale cave was worked, only four bones of Lynx had been found in the British Islands. I have been unable to obtain any information about the excavation in Cales Dale previous to 1897, but my own find there consists of 36 bones ard teeth of Lynx, about half of this number being metapodials and phalanges. The cave lies on the west side of Cales Dale, a small dale branching from the south side of Lathkil Dale, at a point about PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1906, Y O L . I. No. Y. 5 |