^ 



2STO. 5, 



The Secretary announced that he had received, August 

 17th, 1872, a telegram from Professor Cope, dated Black 

 Buttes, Wyoming, Aug. 17, 1872, reading (with conjectural 

 corrections of specific names) as follows : — 



Black Buttes, "Wyoming, August, 17, 1872. 

 I have discovered in Southern Wyoming, the following species : 

 Lepalaphodon, Cope. Incisor one ; tusk canine none ; premolars four, 

 with one crescent and inner tubercle ; molars two ; size gigantic. — Discor- 

 natus ; horns tripedral, cylindric ; nasals with short convex lobes. — 

 Bifurcatus, nasals with long spatulate lobes. — Excressicornis, horns 

 compressed sub-acuminate. 



Edwakd D. Cope, 

 TJ. 8. Geological Survey. 



Published Aug. 19, 1872. 



