]2 Annals of the South African Museum. 



shadowing of the peculiar Anomodont type. In the arrangement of 

 the frontals, postfrontals, postorbitals, preparietal, and parietals we 

 have almost the Anomodont condition. The palate of course differs 

 markedly. Still the pterygoid with its very short anterior part meet- 

 ing the palatine instead of the prevomer and the peculiar condition of 

 the transpalatine are just what we should expect in the Anomodont 

 ancestor. The relations of the stapes, basioccipital, and basi- 

 sphenoid are almost exactly as in the Anomodonts. 



Though the relationships to the Cynodonts are not quite so evident, 

 still this type comes nearer to the Cynodont than does Scylacosaurus. 

 If the palatine bones curved over and made a secondary palate and 

 the maxillae also joined over, the whole palate would be not unlike 

 that of the Cynodont. The occiput would resemble that of the 

 Cynodont if the opisthotic were shown on the posterior surface, but 

 this is not a very important character when we consider how variable 

 it is in mammals. 



It seems necessary to revive Seeley's Gorgonopsia as a distinct 

 sub-order of the Therapsida for reptiles of the Gorgonops type. 



The relationships of the various sub-orders of the Therapsida may 

 be expressed as follows : 



For the new skull I suggest the name Scylacops capensis, g. et 

 sp. nov. 



