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The neural canal is well-defined. The transverse processes are 

 placed midway along the vertebra, and arise at the level of the top 

 of the centrum. The base of the process occupies at least two- 

 thirds of the entire length of the centrum. No zygapophyses are 

 preserved. 



Type. Skull-fragment S.A.M. Cat. No. 1885. 



Locality, Paballong, Mt. Fletcher, Cape Province. 



Horizon. Red Beds. 



LYCORHINUS ANGUSTIDENS, gen. et sp. nov. 

 Text fig. 8. 



The type of this new form consists of a portion of the left ramus 

 of the lower jaw of a Cynodont from Paballong, Mount Fletcher, 

 presented to the Museum by the late Dr. M. Ricono. The fragment 

 shows the canine, 7 molars and the impressions of 4 others, making 

 11 in all. The ramus lacks the lower border, and is broken off 

 anteriorly at the front of the canine and posteriorly at the ninth 

 molar. 



The canine is long and powerful, with a long root, and curves 



Fig. 8. Lycorhinus angustidens, Htn. 

 Type dentary. 



slightly backwards. The point is absent and the inner anterior side 

 of the upper sixth is bevelled off by rubbing against the canine of 

 the upper jaw. In section the tooth is oval with the longer dia- 

 meter along the jaw. The anterior border is ridged and serrated 

 for the greater part of its length ; the posterior border is also ridged, 

 but is unserrated. 



Close behind the canine, separated from it by a diastema mea- 

 suring at the most 1-5 mm, come the molars. They are all of the 

 same pattern, increasing gradually in size to the fourth, and decreasing 



