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XIV. On Two New Species of Dicynodonts. By E. BROOM, 



M.D., B.Sc. 



DICYNODON LATIFRONS, ii. sp. (Plate X., figs. 1, 2, 3). 



THE type of this new species of Dicynodon is an imperfect and 

 crushed skull discovered by the Eev. D. D. Fraser at Burghersdorp. 

 Till the skull found its present resting-place in the collection of the 

 Eastern Province Naturalists' Society, it seems to have been in- 

 differently cared for, and a large fragment, representing the right 

 side of the beak, which was originally present in the specimen, has 

 been lost. In its present condition, with the exception of the missing 

 half of the beak, the skull is moderately complete in front of the 

 temporal region, but has been slightly obliquely distorted. A con- 

 siderable portion of the parietal crest is missing ; while the occiput, 

 with the right squamosal and quadrate, has been crushed in upon 

 the under side of the front part of the skull. 



In a number of its features the form bears considerable resemblance 

 to Dicynodon simocephalus, Weith., and also shows some affinity, 

 though much more remote, with Dicynodon pcmliceps, Ow. The 

 very imperfect condition of the type specimen of Dicynodon 

 simocephalus renders a comparison with it a matter of some 

 difficulty and considerable uncertainty, but the great breadth of 

 the maxillaries in D. simocephalus is so unlike the condition in the 

 present type where the maxillary breadth scarcely exceeds the 

 breadth across the frontals as to leave comparatively little doubt but 

 that the two species are distinct. 



In both D. pardiceps and D. simocephalus the orbits are directed 

 somewhat frontally, but in the present form they are directed almost 

 perfectly laterally. 



The frontal region is broad and moderately flat. The frontal 



