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skuU" is the condition in the early reptiles and temnospondyl amphibians 

 of the Permocarboniferous of America. 



"EpioticJ'' — I am glad to see that both Watson and Bro(mi are skepti- 

 cal about the epiotic of Huxley. I have long agreed with Baur^^ that 

 there is no such bone in the reptilian skull. 



'' Anterior Splenial." — 1 am growing still more skeptical about tbe 

 identity of the anterior splenial of the amphibians and Pantylus with tli^:- 

 true splenial of crocodiles, but will so call it until there is more evidence. 

 Is not Mr. Watson just a bit inconsistent in the face of his statement tha^ 

 "when there is doubt about the identification of a reptilian bone it should 

 not be called by a mammalian name?" Unfortunately, the term pre- 

 splenial has a sort of preoccupation, or I would suggest fchat the two bone- 

 in the amphibian mandible be called presplenial and postsplenial. 



10 Journal of Morphology and Zoology. Anzeiger, 1889. 



