1897] RESTORATION OF EXTINCT REPTILES 195 
(R. 2416) and (R, 2616) and the descriptions and figures of these 
specimens by Andrews (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6., vol. 
xvi, 1895, p. 429; ibid. ser. 6., vol. xv., 1895, p. 333; Geol. 
Mag., dec. +., vol. iii, 1896, p. 145) should here be acknow- 
ledged. 
Pariasaurus baini. was chosen to represent the Anomodontia, 
chiefly because of the completeness of the skeleton exhibited in 
the Reptile Gallery of the Geological Department of the museum. 
This skeleton (R. 1971), from the Karoo formation (Trias), was dis- 
covered by Prof. H. G. Seeley, near Tamboer Fontein in Cape 
Colony, and was described and figured by him in the Pha. Trans. 
(1892, B., pp. 311-370, pls. 17-19, 21-23). The Anomodontia con- 
stitute such a heterogeneous collection of reptiles that it would be 
difficult to say what species might be considered to be most typical 
of the Order. But the completeness of this specimen of Pariasaurus 
certainly renders it more suitable for the purpose in hand than any 
other Anomodont yet known. The diagram (Fig. 4) is not a 
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Fig. 4. Pariasaurus baini, from the Trias of Cape Colony. (x-4)- 
restoration in the same sense as the other three, because, in the 
first place, the completeness of the skeleton renders possible a very 
close adherence to nature, and, in the second, because, the whole 
of our knowledge of the species being derived from this one speci- 
men, a reconstructed diagram would be less instructive than an 
outline drawing of the specimen boldly treated. The unimportant 
cracks in the bones shown in the large folding plate in the Phil. 
Trans. have been omitted, and a little diagrammatic cross-shading 
has been employed here to give the effect of distance, although it 
was not found necessary in the other three diagrams. The legs are 
shown articulating in the glenoid cavity and the acetabulum, as in 
the mounted specimen but not as in the plate; and the anterior 
cervical vertebrae, which during fossilisation were united into a 
block of extreme upward curvature, are given a more convenient 
disposition so as to articulate with the condyle of the skull, 
