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presenting the normal conditions. I therefore conclude that the above 

 described features are perhaps accidental and should only serve as a 

 warning to the student. 



25. Protylopus annectens sp. nov. (Plate XXXVII, Fig. 14). 



Type: Portions of the skull and lower jaws together with other 

 parts of the skeleton, C. M. No. 2932. 



Horizon: Uinta Eocene, Lower C. 



Locality: Six miles east of Myton, Utah. 



Specific Characters: A bifid posterior iving of the anterior inner cres- 

 cents of the superior molars. Small basal pillars between the inner 

 crescents of the molars. Deuterocone of P~ proportionally large. Para- 

 style of ilf- especially prominent. Metacarpals proportionally short and 

 heavy. Animals larger than Protylopus petersoni. 



Fig. 15. Protylopus annectens. Carnegie Museum No. 2932. X i/i. 



In comparing the present specimen with the excellent description 

 by Professor Scott^^ of one specimen in the Princeton collection from 

 the Uinta the only dififerences appear to be the absence of the posterior 

 bifidity of the anterior inner crescents of the molars and the small 



^' Wagner Free Institute of Science, Trans., Yo\. VI, 1899, p. 24. 



