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the Edmonton Cretaceous forms the subject of a note by 

 Mr. L. M. Lambe in the Ottazva Naturalist, vol. xxvii. p. 21. 

 In a second article in the same volume (pp. 109-16) 

 Mr. Lambe describes a new generic type of horned dinosaur, 

 Styracosaurus albcrtensis, from the Edmonton beds, in which the 

 margin of the great posterior flange of the skull carries a series 

 of long spines. 



Reference in this place may be made to a note in vol. ix. 

 No. 11 of The South African Journal of Science, relating to the dis- 

 covery in the Lower Cretaceous marls of Bushman's River, South 

 Africa, of the broken femur of a presumably dinosaurian reptile 

 fully as large as the corresponding bone of Diplodocus, and, 

 when complete, measuring about 5 ft. in length. Here it may 

 be mentioned that the preoccupied generic name Gigantosaurus 

 used by Dr. Fraas for the gigantic dinosaur from the Cretaceous 

 of German East Africa has been replaced by Tomicria (Sternfeld, 

 Sitzber. Ges. Nat. Freunde, 191 1, p. 398). 



In the Parasuchia (Belodontia) remains of a new species 

 of the genus Rutiodon, from the Upper Triassic beds of Fort 

 Lee, New Jersey, at the base of the " Palisades," opposite New 

 York, are described by Prof. H. von Huene {Bull. Amer. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist. vol. xxxii. pp. 275-83), under the name of 

 R, manhaitanensis. In the opinion of the describer, the members 

 of the genera Rutiodon and Mystriosuchus, on account of the 

 taller spines of their vertebrae and their more compressed 

 bodily form, were probably better swimmers than those of the 

 typical genus Phytosaurus. The species of both the American 

 Rutiodon and the European Mystriosuchus were long-snouted 

 reptiles of larger bodily size than Phytosaurus ; the newly 

 described representative of the first of these being the biggest 

 of the whole group. 



More or less nearly related to the Parasuchia is the group 

 of early reptiles known as the Pseudosuchia, certain members 

 of which form the subject of a paper contributed by Dr. Broom 

 to the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 191 3 (pp. 619-33). 

 The main object of this communication is the description of 

 the skull and skeleton of a rhynchocephalian-like reptile from 

 the Trias of Aliwal North, South Africa, for which the author 

 had previously proposed the new generic and specific designa- 

 tion Euparkeria capensis. The opportunity is, however, taken 

 of discussing the osteology of the genera Ornithosuchus and 



