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Element. 



Nucha] . . . 

 Peripheral I 



progress with the description. 1 hat which especially strikes one is the greater thickness of 

 the bones here desci ibed, as compared with corresponding ones of 0. emarginatus and 0. gibbi. 

 The three types are of nearly the same size. The dimensions of various bones are given in 

 the following table. Except the length, the dimensions of each bone are taken at the anterior 



end. The thickness of the nuchal is taken 

 at the midline. The columns headed by 

 I belong to 0. emarginatus; those bv 2. 

 to 0. gibbi; those by 3, to 0. robustus. 



The nuchal bone (fig. 147) appears 

 to have extended backward further in 

 this than in the species with which it is 

 compared above. The hinder portion 

 of the bone is broken away, but the por- 

 tion remaining is 80 mm. wide antero- 

 posteriorly. The nuchal of 0. emargina- 

 the nuchal of 0. gibbi has a length of 75 mm. 

 Fig. 148 is a section at the articulation between the nuchal and the first peripheral. 



The upper border of the first peripheral, articulating with the first costal, has a thickness 

 of 10 mm. ' fig. 14S 1, The left second peripheral lacks the hinder end; and that of the right 

 side has the hinder end of the inner face so eroded that it does not show the pit for the hyo- 

 plastron. These peripherals articulated with the first costal. The other peripherals are 

 missing to the ninth, and of these only unimportant fragments remain. The tenth and eleventh 

 (fig. 149) are nearly plane above, or slightly convex. The rib-pits are flat; and that of the 



Pyg.il 



tus measured in the same place gives us 70 mm. 



Fig. 147. Osteopygis robustus. Nuchal bone and first peripheral right and left, of type. X4. 



nu. 5, nuchal scute; per. I, first peripheral. 



tenth is rooft over to the articulation with the eighth costal plate with bone 7 mm. thick. It is 

 possible, but not probable, that the ninth peripheral had its upper border notcht by the rib- 

 pit, as it is in the case of all the hinder peripherals ot 0. gibbi. No rib entered the eleventh 

 peripheral. This and the pygal articulated suturally with the last suprapygal. The upper 

 sutural border of the pygal is 13 mm. thick. The free borders of the tenth and eleventh 

 peripherals are acute. Fig. 150 represents the front end ot the tenth peripheral. There are no 

 indications of emarginations of the free border such as are supposed to characterize 0. emar- 

 ginatus. The pygal (fig. [49) is notcht somewhat at the midline. Fig. 151 is a section thru 

 the middle of the pygal. 



There are present what are regarded as the proximal and the distal portions of the left 

 fourth costal; the proximal end of the right fourth; the left seventh, lacking most of the front 

 border; the left eighth entire; anil the proximal end of the right eighth. These bones are all 

 thick. Where the suture with the neurals is shown the bone is 10 mm. or n mm. thick. At 

 the middle of the length of the costals the sutural edges are about 6 mm. thick. The distal 

 ends of costals four and five were suturally joined to the corresponding peripherals; and the 

 same is true of the seventh and the eighth. The fourth costal has a width of 62 mm. at the 

 costo-vertebral sulcus and 70 mm. at the distal end. The end of the rib of this costal projects 

 from near the front border of the distal end, as it appears to do, likewise, in 0. gibbi. The width 



