1877.] 57o [Cope. 



noon, not to sound a Vesper to "regret tUo dying day." But in the very 

 midst of liis murmured masses, in the crisis of tlie elevation of the Host 

 itself, he might be interrupted by ruffians rushing in to ring a peal of their 

 own, upon the receipt of news of some murderous victory, real or pre- 

 tended. 



In two skirmishes, so-called "battles," which I was regaled with, the 

 church was the centre of the fight. In Monclova the women ran out of 

 the church when the firing began, as they might with us after service, 

 from a gathering thunderstorm. This was Sunday, November 12th ult., 

 about noon. N. B. — Remington (American) bullets whistled about their 

 ears. 



Hoc ab initio persuasum civibus dominos esse omnium rerum ac moder- 

 atores Deos ; eaque qupe gerantur, eorum geri vi , ditione, ac numiue. 

 * * * * His enini rebus imbutcie mentes baud sane abhorrebunt 

 ab utili et vera sententia. It was an exotic — the Roman Religion — an im- 

 ported article ; but it was the last bond left to tie a good many unhappy 

 souls together. It is nearly worn through. The last strands are parting. 

 In short, the way things are going on, ten years ought to be a generous 

 allowance for Mexico to rehabilitate the worship of her indigenous Gods 

 of Hell, and Pulque, and War, and the sanction of public human sacrifice. 



A coniinuatiou of Researches among the Batrachia of the Coal Measures 



of Ohio. 



By E. D. Cope. 



{Read before the American Philosophical Society, February 3, 1877. ) 



The material described in the following pages was obtained from the 

 coal strata at Linton, Ohio, during the Summer of 1876, by Prof. J. S. 

 Newberry, Director of the Geological Survey of Ohio. 



IcHTHYCANTHus OHiENSis. Copc. Gen. et sp. nov. 



Char. Gen. These are derived from the posterior dorsal and caudal 

 vertebrae, with adjacent parts. Posterior limbs well developed, with dis- 

 tinct tibia and fibula, osseous tarsus, and probably five digits. Ribs elon- 

 gate, simple, curved. Abdominal armature consisting of bristle-like rods 

 in anteriorly directed chevrons. Dorsal vertebrae not elongate, with sim- 

 ple neui-al spines. Tail large, its vertebrae ossified, and furnished with 

 slender chevron bones which terminate in a haemal spine. Neural spines 

 slender and directed backwards ; the caudal series somewhat resembling 

 that of a fish. All the centra amphicoelian. 



This genus differs from all those with enlarged and sculptured neural 

 spines, and from those with abdominal scuta. It is equally distinct from 

 those without ribs, abdominal rods, or limbs. It is possible that some of 

 the species referred to Tuditanus, in which these parts are unknown, may 

 belong to it, or that it may be established on a small species of Leptophrac- 



PROC. AMER. PHIL08. 80C. XVI. 99. 3t 



