276 Albany Museum Records. 



P)'oc()I(>j)Jiini trigoniceps. — The type and the other three 

 specimens iu the British Museum are all stated to have come from 

 " Tafelberg." In the Karroo, where intrusive sheets of dolerite 

 are so numerous, there are many TafellDergs. To the soiith of 

 Rosmead Junction there is a railway station of the name, and 

 though Pt'ocolophon occurs in that neighbourhood, where the 

 very fine series of specimens in the Albany Museum was procured, 

 it was not here that the British Museum specimens were obtained. 

 The first specimens were found by Mr. D. White, of Donnybrook, 

 on the Upper Zwart Kei, between Queentown and Tarkastad, no 

 doubt at Tafelberg, a mountain near Donnybrook. A number of 

 specimens were presented to the Grahamstown Museum, and two 

 of these specimens were transmitted to the British Museum " for 

 determination and description " by Dr. Atherstone. Procoloplion 

 minor was also collected by Mr. D. White, and also P. Jaticeps. 



Licynodon testudiceps. — In the British Museum Catalogue 

 (1890) this specimen is said to have come from the " Stormberg 

 beds of the Karroo system on the Modder tributary of the Orange 

 river." In Owen's Catalogue (187(5) the locality is given as the 

 " Tacka [Tarka] prolongation of the Winterberg range of moun- 

 tains." In Andrew Bain's own copy of his paper " On the Dis- 

 covery of the Fossil Remains of Bidental and other Reptiles in 

 South Africa " (1845), which was recently presented to the South 

 African Museum by his grandson, there is a note in his own 

 handwriting in connection with the statement that D. testudiceps 

 came from the Modder River (p. 5^) as follows : — " This is in- 

 correct as D. testudiceps was found near Fort Beaufort, the head 

 from the Modder River was that of a small Chelonian." 



Platypodosaurus robustus.— When this specimen was origi- 

 nally described by Owen (1880) it was stated to have come from 

 Graaff Reinet. In the British Museum Catalogue (1890) the 

 locality is given as " the Karoo system of Catalomds, Claremont." 

 The specimen was presented dy Mr. E. J. Dunn who resided in a 

 house called Oatlands in Claremont, a suburlj of Capetown. This 

 is no doubt the explanation of the rather curious blunder in the 

 Catalogue. " Platjipndosnurus robustus " is almost certainly a 



