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Various new Indian Giraffidce are referred to in the notice 

 of Mr. Pilgrim's paper. 



To the Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, vol. xlix. pp. 196, 197, 

 Mr. W. J. Sinclair contributes an account of the restored 

 skeleton of the Tertiary cameloid Leptaitchenia decora ; and in 

 another paper, Amer. J. Set. vol. xxix. pp. 297-394, Mr. F. B. 

 Loomis discusses the osteology and affinities of the allied 

 genus Stenomyliis, figuring an entire skeleton of a new species, 

 St. hitchcocki, from Nebraska. From this it appears that Steno- 

 mylus was a slenderly built tylopod, adapted to an upland life 

 and furnished with the full typical series of forty-four teeth. It 

 had a long neck, two-toed, digitigrade feet, and the navicular 

 and ectocuneiform bones of the carpus free. Eotylopus is a 

 new cameloid from the Oligocene of Wyoming, described by 

 Dr. Matthew in Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. vol. xxviii. p. 36 ; 

 and on p. 248 of this volume Mr. Grainger proposes the name 

 Camelodon for a species from the Eocene of the same State. The 

 latter is allied to Protylopus and Leptotragidus ; differing from 

 the first by its more selenodont molars, and from the second by 

 the more compressed anterior and more complex last premolars. 

 Eotylopus is referred by its describer to the Hypertragulidoe, on 

 account of possessing four digits and separate metacarpals in 

 the front limb, only two functional digits in the hind-foot, the 

 metapodial keels restricted to the palmar aspect, and the 

 dentition primitive, unreduced, and brachyodont. The Hyper- 

 tragulidce is divided into the subfamilies (i) Leptomery chines ^ 

 (2) Hypertragulince and Leptotragulince, of which the first is 

 believed to exhibit signs of affinity with the Cervidce^ the 

 second with the Tragulidce, and the third with the Camelidce. 



In the Anthracotherium group much interest attaches to a 

 description by Dr. Marcellin Boule, in a paper on certain fossil 

 vertebrates from southern Tunisia, published in vol. cl. (pp. 812, 

 813) of the Comptes Rendus of the Academy of Sciences, Paris, 

 of remains of a species of the Siwalik gQTWis, Merycopotamus from 

 Upper Tertiary strata. This new species, M. africanus^ as it is 

 named, is of importance as affording evidence in favour of 

 Dr. Arldt's theory as to the migration of the Siwalik fauna 

 through a forest-tract to Africa. 



Mention of the preliminary description by Dr. Pilgrim of 

 two new genera of Anthracotheriidce has been already made in 

 the notice of his paper. In addition to these, Dr. H. Stehlin, 



