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DlPLOGLOSSUS COSTATUS. 



Panolopus costatus Cope, 1861, Pr. Phil. Ac., 494. 

 Celestus phoxinus Cope, 1868, Pr. Phil. Ac., 123, 125. 



Examination of the specimen that served as the type in 

 founding the genus Panolopus shows that it had suffered 

 considerably from mutilation, being deprived of its fingers 

 and toes and badly wounded in the fore part of the head. 

 In shape it is elongate fusiform, with a sharpness of an- 

 gles on head and body that is in great part due to emaci- 

 ation. 



The arms and wrists are normal. The fingers have 

 been carried away ; this is proved by the differences in 

 the stumps of hands and in the forms and sizes of the 

 scales and callosities covering the healed surfaces. More 

 of the hand remains on the right side than on the left ; on 

 the latter the extremity is more nearly conical ; on the 

 former it is more broad and flattened. 



The legs and ankles also are normal. Excepting a 

 short stump of each inner toe, the toes have been lost and 

 with them a portion of each foot. The left stump is the 

 more pointed. The callosities and scales covering the 

 wounded portions are very different in shapes, sizes, num- 

 bers and arrangement on the two feet. Each foot is marked 

 as if from unsuccessful attempts to cut it off nearer the 

 ankle. 



In front of the left eye there is a deep scar ; a much 

 deeper one is seen behind the second submental shields on 

 the chin ; and shallower evidence of healed wounds exists 

 on the snout about and in front of the nostrils. A conse- 

 quence of these wounds appears in the more or less com- 

 plete fusion of rostral, nasals, supranasals, postnasals 

 and the anterior three of the labials. The fusion is not 

 entire ; here and there portions of the dividing lines re- 



