1176 I- Vertebrata. 



Howorth , H. H., The Mammoth in Siberia, in: The Quarterly Journal of the geol. Soc. 



London. 1. May. 1879. p. 1. 



Dames, W., Vorlegung eines Backzahnes des rechten Unterkiefers von Eit^ilni^ ni/fiquiisFalc. 

 aus dem Diluvium von Kixdorf. in: Sitzungsb. der Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde zu 

 Berlin. 1879. Nr. 3. p. 27 and 28. 

 Elas mother ium presents a type very different from Elcp/ms. Giebel, Zeitschr. f. 



d. ges. Naturw. 52. Bd. Januar-Pebruar. 1879. p. 111. 



Mastodon angustidens^. in the lower beds of the Miocene formations of the Island of 

 Goro ; A. L. Adams, in: The Quarterly Journal of the geol. Soc. London. 

 1. August. 1879. p. 523. pi. XXV. figs. 5. 5a. 



The tusk of a gigantic Mastodon sp.? is digged from a bank in Franklin County. 

 The tusk must have been ten or twelve feet long. Transact, of the Kansas Acad. 

 of Sc. 1878. p. 11. Wni. Wheeler, Ottawa. B. F. Mudge identified it as the 

 Mastodon ohioticus. 



Osborn, Henry J., and Francis Speir jr. describe and figure a lower jaw of Lorolophodon cor- 

 iiutits collected in the South Bitter Creek country of Wyoming, in : The Am. Journ. 

 of Sc. and Arts. Vol. 17. :t. Series, 1879. p. 304 3U'.>. with a plate. 



Fam. Suidae. 



Renevier, E., Les Anthracotherittm de Kochette. in: Bull, de la Soc. Vaud. des Sc. Nat. 2. 



S. Vol. Hi. Nr. 81. 1879. Lausanne, p. 1401-19, plates IV VIII. 

 The remains belong to three species, viz: Anthracotherium valdcnsc Kow., Auth. 

 minus ? Cuv. and a new species Anth. Lnharpei Ruv. 



Hi/opotamus gni/otiamts Cope belongs not to the genus Hyopotamm , but to a new 

 genus, which may be called Merycopater u g. Cope. Three prcmolars and a 

 simple diastema. Prernolars wide and the last has four cresceutoid cones, as in 

 the first true molar. Canine well developed, compressed, anterior. Tbe cones 

 both internal and external have a crescentic section. E. D. Cope. The American 

 Naturalist. 1 879. Vol. 13. Nr. 3. p. 197. 



Anthracotherium Laharpei, n. sp. E. Renevier, Bulletin de la Soc. Vaud. des Sc. 

 Nat. 2. S. Vol. 1(5. Nr. 81. 1879. Lausanne, p. 146. plate VII. fig. 76. 

 From Rochette. 



Fain. Rhino cerontidae. 



Cope, E. D., On the extinct American Rhinoceroses and their allies, in: The American Na- 

 turalist. Vol. 13. Nr. 12. Dec. 1879. p. 771a. 771j, with eight woodcuts. Adapted 

 from a paper published in the Bulletin of the U. S. Geol. Survey Terr. Vol. 5. 

 Nr. 2. 1879. 



Cope enumerates twenty-seven species, of which six are living. Follows a list 

 of these species, belonging to seven genera : 



1. Accratherinm Kaup. A. incisivum Cuv. Middle Miocene, Europe. A. gan- 

 na tense Duv. Middle Miocene, Europe. A. lemanense? Middle Miocene, Europe. 

 A. mite Cope. Lower Miocene, North America. A. occidentale Leidy. Lower 

 Miocene, North America. A. pacificum Leidy. Middle Miocene, North America. 

 A. tmquianmn Cope. Middle Miocene, North America. 



2. Aphelops Cope. A. meridianus Leidy. Upper Miocene, North America. A. 

 megalodus Cope. Upper Miocene, North America. A. fossiger Cope. Upper 

 Miocene, North America. A. malacorhimts Cope. Upper Miocene, North America. 



3. Ceratorhimis Gray. C. sumatramis Cuv. Recent, Sumatra. C. lasiotis Scl. 

 Recent, Malacca. C. Schleiermacheri Kaup. Middle Miocene, Europe. C. aure- 

 lianensis Gaudry. Upper Miocene, Europe. 



4. Zalabis Cope, n. g. Z. sivaknsis C. & F. Upper Miocene,. India. 



