Douglass: Verikhrates from Montana Tkriiary. 179 



poairei'hks? 

 No. 754. 

 In the summer of 1S98 my traveling companion, Mr. Wm. T. 

 Coffey, found in the Deep River beds near White Sulphur Springs a 

 last premolar and three molars, with part of the maxillary of an Oreo- 

 dont which probably belongs to this genus. It was found with ])art of 

 a skeleton of PalcBomeryx and the incisors of some horse-like animal. 

 The parts preserved differ very little from the teeth of the animal 

 above described. 



Merychvis smithi sp. nov. 



No. 766. Fig. 19. 

 Of this species there is the lower i)ortion of the right side of the 

 skull with parts of the mandible. The upper molar-premolar series is 

 present and the lower series back of P^-. The jaws have not been 



Fig. 19. Merychyus smithi {^o.'jb(y). Flint Creek Beds. One half natural size. 

 Part of mandible restored from other side. 



separated and the grinding faces of most of the molars are still hidden. 



The teeth are of the brachydont pattern and are much like those of 

 Poatrcphes paludicola, the species just described. 



The upper canine was large. P^ is two-rooted and separated from 



the canine by a short space, 

 pattern. 



Pg and P4 are of the usual Oreodont 



