FROM THE KARROO BEDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 655 



The skull is short, broad, and deep, and about 4 inches in 

 length. 



The snout is bent down and the caniniform processes are 

 under the orbits. There is no great thickening of the nasals. 

 The orbital region is narrow and the parietal region moderately 

 wide. 



The pineal foramen is large and rounded. The preparietal is 

 small and narrow, and the postfrontals very largely developed. 

 The parietals are fairly well exposed between the postorbitals, 

 but are extremely short. The postorbitals in the temporal region 

 are broad and overhang the temjDoral fosste. 



The nearest ally to this species, which I propose to call 

 Dicynodon curtus, is Dicynodon duhius Owen, from which it 

 differs in the unusual shortness of the parietals and in other 

 proportions. 



The following are the principal measurements : — 



Greatest antero-posterior length... about 110 mm. 



Greatest breadth ,, 110 ,, 



Basal length 100 „ 



Interorbital Avidth 20 ,, 



Intertemporal width 27 ,, 



Between the caniniform processes about 22 ,, 



Text-figure 34. 



Preparietal and its relations in Dicynodon woodwardi Broom. Nat. size. 



Dicynodon avoodwardi, sp. n. (Text-fig. 34.) 



The skull which forms the type of tliis new species was sent to 

 me from near New Bethesda by Mr. 0. Kitching, and I am not 

 quite sure of its horizon. Pretty certainly it is from some pai^t 

 of the Cistecephalus zone. 



Though the whole of the base of the skull is preserved, much 



