Some few years ago the late Mr. William Davies described and figured the imperfect skull of a small Carnivore from the Upper Eocene (Lower Oligocene) of Hordwell, under the title of Viverra Hastingsiæ . With his accustomed care, Mr. Davies pointed out that the species so named agreed very closely with a so-called Viverra from the Lower Miocene of St. Gérand-le-Puy, in the Allier, known as V. antiqua , and also with one from the Quercy Phosphorites described by M. Filhol as Viverra angustidens . Indeed, Mr. Davies gives no characters whereby V. Hastingsiæ can be distinguished from V. angustidens , at that time known only by several mandibular rami. The chief point of resemblance to V. angustidens was shown by the great height of the blade of the lower carnassial tooth in V. Hastingsiæ . It was also pointed out that the first upper premolar of the latter was of unusually small size in regard to the other teeth; and since the same feature occurs in the lower jaw of V. angustidens (the first lower premolar of V. Hastingsiæ is wanting), we have another point of resemblance between the English and French Civets. It, may clear the ground here to say that the skull figured by M. Filhol as Viverra antiqua has been referred by Dr. Schlosser to Herpestes lemanensis , which has lower teeth of quite a different type. So far as I am aware no description of the crabium of V. angustidens from the Phosphorites has hitherto been given. Recently, however, the British