Botany and Zoology. 417 
who has ae the investigation, thought it necessary to charac- 
terize the animal st distinct from a ees: under the name 
>, = ” 
 Dinodon are vislly those that require a new name, if ee 
me. 
: cn, ca nat would thus be a synonym of Dinodon, 
oe a . alto eget er useless name, since the latter was given 
us of serpents by Duméril and Bibron, and 
ay therefore be snippreseed. The name of the family Dinodon- 
oe” which I gave in compliment to Dr. Leidy, may also be 
cnn the same way, 2 genus of extinct reptiles was oni Sree 
odon Leidy, a name one since given to a genu 
% = « Lataps Cope. 
4 nodon Leidy, 1868, not of 1857. 
 Laraps squireovs s Cope, rein Ae. Nat Sci. Phil., 1866. 
___ Lezaps macrorus Cope, s —This species differs from the 
_ former in the Se lndeite prsporaea ‘of the phalanges and tibia; the 
E toes were peated eee than in the preceding. Some of these 
bones are figured by Leidy (Cretaceous Reptiles), and described 
under the head of animals related to Hadrosaurus. It will be 
ibed more fully by me in vig forthcoming memoir on the 
2 - extinct reptiles of North Am 
2 
Dye essol Leidy. 
nodon Leid ale Proc. A. N. Sci. Phil., 1866, p. 198, not 
ee and B a 
Etrerconox 2 poyaen Dinodon horridus Leidy, Trans. Amer. 
8. Soc., xi, p. 143. Aublysodon mirandus Leidy, Proc. Acad. 
il., 1866, 198. 
: 
:- EL Scupper, (from A ceedings of the Boston a Bony 
a e ural Histo sg cate 22. 1868) )—Mr. 8. H. Scudder 
_ Stated that he: ~peae bags studying the mole crickets with 
i d 
foll haracteristi 
on ane oF of the ae of the eighth 
it. JouR. Scr. -Seconp Serres, VoL. XLVI, No. 138.—Nov., 1868. 
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