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exception, proportionately longer than that of this Pleistocene 
species. 
SPECIFIC DESCRIPTION. 
TAPIRUS VEROENSIS N. SP. 
Medium sized tapirs of the genus Tapirus. Spiral groove very broad, placed 
well upon the nasals ; excavation of groove into frontals and molars slight, (h* 
Lachrymal pit present. Face proportionately short; snout short, molar-premolar 
series relatively extended ; diastema reduced. Parastyle of upper cheek teeth 
large. Valley between the transverse crest blocked by a pronounced ridge which 
extends from the paracone backwards and slightly inwards to the wall of the 
metacone pillar. A similar ridge or crest extends from the posterior side of 
the metacone to the cingulum at the posterior margin of the tooth. Third mo- ' 
lars of the upper jaws large. 
T}^pe specimen, skull from Pleistocene deposits at Vero, Florida. Para- 
types, parts of lower jaw and teeth from same locality. 
SKULL CHARACTERS. 
The characters on which this species is referred to the genus 
Tapirus rather than to T amelia, as already stated, are found in the 
skull. There is no evidence of the prolongation of the methesmoid 
in front of the nasals, and there is quite certainly no bony plate 
rising from the maxillaries to support this bone. The species is 
thus excluded from the. genus Tapir ella. On the other hand the 
skull presents the essential characters of the genus Tapirus, to which 
accordingly the species is referred. The presence of a lachrymal 
pit, already noted, unless supported by other important skeletal 
characters, should not of itself exclude the species from the genus 
T apirus. 
DENTITION. 
The upper molar and premolar teeth of the type specimen are 
perfectly preserved and but little worn. Of the incisors the en- 
larged third on either side is preserved, while the first and second 
incisors as well as the canines had dropped from the sockets previous 
to fossilization. A striking feature of the cheek teeth is the very 
large size of the parastyle, which in the molars, in particular, be- 
comes a pillar closely appressed to the paracone which it approxi- 
mately equals in size. On the exterior of the cheek teeth no 
