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der of quadrate condyles, .240; interorbital do., .048; do. at slen- 
der part of muzzle, .o45. Depth of slender part of muzzle, .oso; 
do. of elevated part, .120; do. at parietal region, .140. 
This species is of the size of the B. kapfi Mever, and is, in the 
form of the muzzle, intermediate between that species and the &. 
pleningert. 
Belodon scolopax. This species is represented by a snout, which 
includes the anterior border of the nares; it is broken into five 
pieces, which should be counected with intermediate fragments, 
which are lost. This muzzle is a little shorter than that of B. 
pleningeri, but is a good deal more slender, the distal part having 
only half the diameter of the latter. Besides this character, it 
differs from that of B. plieningeri in three others. The extremity 
of the muzzle is not so much decurved. All the alveole have a 
more lateral exposure, and the lateral ridges of the palate are thus 
more distinctly seen from the side. The two teeth on the ex- 
tremity of the muzzle are closely crowded together, and their 
large alveolz are scarcely distinct. 
The surface of the muzzle is distantly and weakly grooved and 
punctate. The anterior alveole are round, the posterior ones 
oval. Diameters an inch anterior to nares; transverse, .0230; 
vertical, .0235. Diameters three inches from extremity; trans- 
verse, .O19; vertical, .o145. 
Geo ocicaL Nores.—The third part of the Contributions to the 
Paleontology of Austro-Hungary, by Mojsisovics and Neumayr, 
contains two articles. These are, the Jura formation of the neigh- 
borhood of Briinn, by V. Uhlig; and the fossils of the Nizniow 
Limestone, by Von Alth. The Paleontographica, for June, 
1881, consists of a memoir on the extinct Elephants of Japan. 
The species mentioned are Stegodon clifti, S. insignis, Elephas 
nomadicus and £. primigentus. The August number contains the 
first part of a memoir on the fauna of the Kelheim Diceras lime- 
stone. Mr, Hulke, in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological 
Society of London, for 1879 and 1880, has described two new 
Dinosauria of the Lyuanodontide, under the names of Vectisaurus 
valdensis,and Iguanodon prestwichti. The Revue Scientifique, of 
Paris, gives a review of the last year’s progress in vertebrate palae- 
ontology. It covers five pages and a half, of which one page is 
given to South American and four pages to North American 
works on the subject. Prof. Cope’s Paleontological Bulletin, 
No. 33, contains descriptions of fourteen new species of Mammalia 
from the Lowest Eocene beds of New Mexico. Eight new genera 
are characterized. In the Bulletin of the Geological Society of 
France, M. Fischer describes a new Eocene Creodont under the. 
name Apterodon gaudryt. Dr. H. G. Seeley has recently re- 
examined the vertebrate fossils found at Neue Welt, near Vienna, 
and has made a number of important rectifications in the deter- . 
minations, 
Published November 12, 1881. 
