FROM THE KARROO BEDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 665 



It is certainly very remarkable that, while we know the faunas 

 of the Endothiodon and CisteoepJi alios zones fairly well, nowhere 

 else have we ever come across any of the forms that occur at 

 Victoria West. 



Though the present Dicynodont is fairly new to the typical 

 Dicynodons, I think it well to make it the type of a new genus, 

 which may be called Eosimops, characterized by the very shoi't 

 deflected snout and the broad .and unusual condition of the 

 parietal region. The specific na.me has been given in honour of 

 Mr. E. T. Newton, F.R.S., whose work I have always greatly 

 admired. 



The following are the principal measurements : — 



Cxreatest antero-posterior length... about 140 mm. 



Greatest breadth ,, 100 ,, 



Interorbital width 30 ,, 



Intertemporal width 33 ,, 



Palemydops platysoma, gen. et sp. n. (Text-fig. 40.) 



This new genus and species is founded on a beautiful skull and 

 part of the skeleton of a small Dicynodont found by me at 



Text-figure 40. 



Skull oi Falemydops platysoma Broom. 



Biesjespoort. The head is barely 3 inches long, and one might 

 consider the possibility of its being a young Dicynodon. But this 

 cannot well be the case, as the bones are well ossified and the 

 tusk apparently fully formed. Farther, the structure of the top 

 of the skull is unlike that in any known species of Dicynodon. 



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