304 RECORD OF SCIENCE FOR 1887 AND 1888. 



James Hall (96) notes the discovery of an elk {Elaphus Canadensis) 

 [sic] in the town of Farmingtou, Ontario County, New York. The title 

 is as above, but it does not appear whether the author intends to in- 

 dicate the species found to be the red deer {Cervus elaphus^ Linn.), or 

 the wapiti {Cervus Canadensis, Erxl.), or the true moose. 



Joseph Leidy (147) announces the discovery of a new species of Bip- 

 pntlierium, which is described and figured, j). 310, under the name Hij)- 

 poiherimn pUcatile. 



O. C. Marsli (105) briefly describes a new fossil Sirenian from (Cali- 

 fornia, proposing the name Desmostylus hesperus (gen. et sp. nov.), pp. 

 05,90, figs. 1, 2, 3, Tertiary, Alameda County, California. The same 

 author (101) describes several new fossil mammals as follows : 



Bison alticornis (sp. nov.), P- 323, f. 1, 2, Denver jjronp, near Denver, Colorado. 



Aceraihcrium acHtiim (sp. nov.), p. 325, f. 3, 4, Pliocene, Phillips County, Kan- 

 sas. 



Brontops rohustus (gen. ot sp. nov.), p. 326, f. 5, 6, Lower Miocene, near White 

 River, Nebraska. 



Brontops dispar (sp. nov.), p. 328, f. 7, 8, Lower Miocene, Dakota. 



Mevo})^ rarians (gen. et sp. nov.), p. 328, f. 9, 10, Lower Miocene, Dakota. 



Titanops curtus (gen. et sp. nov.), p. 330, f. 11, Lower Miocene, Colorado. 



Titanops elalns (sp. nov.), p. 330, f. 12, Miocene, Dakota. 



Allops serotinus (gen. et sp. nov.), p. 331, Miocene, Dakota. 



Mr. W J McGee (176) notes the discovery of Ovihos cavifrons from the 

 Loess of Iowa. 



W. B. Scott and H. F. Osborne (230) give a preliminary account of 

 the fossil mammals of the White River formation in the Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology collected by Samuel Garman in Nebraska and Da- 

 kota. The following new species and genera are described : 



Hijotherium Americanum (sp. nov.), p. 155, no figure. 

 Minodus iichoceras (sp. nov.), p. 159, sketch 2 of figs. 5,6. 

 Minodiis doJichoceras {s\^. nov.), p. 160, sketch 3 of figs. 5, 6. 

 Minodits platyceras (sp. nov.), p. 160, fig. of horns, f. 4. 

 Metamijiwdon 2Jlaiiifrons (sp. nov.), pp. 165-169, f. 7, 8, 9. 

 Ejjracodon major (sp. nov.), p. 179, no figures. 

 Rijracodon planiceps (sp. nov.), p. 170, no figures. 



The genus Menodus, Pomel, is defined p. 157, and the following gen- 

 era are recorded as synonyms, viz, Titanotherium, Leidy, Megacer- 

 ops, Leidy, Brontotherium, Marsh, (? Symhorodon Cope), Diconodon, 

 Marsh. Restorations are given on plate i of Hoplophoneris primoivns^ 

 Leidy, one-fourth natural size, and on i)late ii of Menodus Proittii, Leidy, 

 one-sixteenth natural size. Amynodon, IMarsh, 1877, is defined on p. 164, 

 and the author's genus Orthocynodon (Scott and Osborne, 1883) is con- 

 sidered to be a probable synonym. The new genus Metamynodon is 

 named and described, p. 105, founded u])OU the new species M. plani- 

 frons, pp. 105-109, f. 7, 8, 9, and the genus is referred to the Amynodon- 

 tida^ 



The same authors report upon vertebrate fossils of the Uinta forma- 



