Abstract: While studying the Carnivora material from the Yushe area a few years ago, Tedford noticed a well preserved Indarctos skull from Baode, China, in the Frick Collection housed in the AMNH. The skull in association with its mandibles and atlas was sent to Frick by one of his agents, Mr. Liu Hsi Ku, in 1934. Qiu, while visiting to the AMNH in 2001, together with Tedford, studied this specimen and found that it belonged evidently to a new species of the genus Indarctos, widely diffe2 rent from the two known species in China. So far more or less complete skulls have been known only from two European localities (Can Llobateres and Samos). No complete skull has ever been described in China. In view of its importance for our understanding of the Chinese Indarctos, it is described here.

摘要： 记述了印度熊一新种, Indarctos zdanskyi。正型标本是保存在一起的相当完好的头骨、下颌和寰椎,采自山西保德赵家沟的三趾马红土层中。新种以个体大,头骨矢状嵴高耸,乳突特别粗大并向外伸展,外耳道很细长,内鼻孔特别窄长,下颌联合后缘接近p4 ,颊齿相对较小,前臼齿高度退化,P4 长于M1 ,m1 前窄后宽,而m2 前宽后窄而区别于本属已知各种。