214 Geological Notices. 
THe PenatEs round at Devizes, in 1714.—A gardener by the 
name of Cadby discovered in a field near Devizes (supposed to be 
at Southbroom) a Roman urn, containing some coins, and nineteen 
bronze images or Penates, varying in height from two to six and 
a half inches, some of them of very good design. As Roman 
antiquities were not so well known in this country at that time as 
they have been since, they were esteemed great curiosities and as 
such they were exhibited in various parts of the county. Eight 
only of them can now be found, and these are in the British 
Museum. Can any readers of the Wilts Magazine inform the 
society where the remainder of them now are? Those in the 
British Museum are Jupiter, Pallas, two of Bacchus, two of 
Mereury, Hercules and Neptune. W.C. 
FOSSIL JAW OF ICTHYOSAURUS CAMPYLODON. 
A fine specimen of the right ramus of the lower jaw of this animal 
has just been discovered in the Upper Green Sand of the neigh- 
bourhood of Warminster, and is now in the collection of Mr. 
Cunnington, of Devizes. It is three feet in length, and probably 
belonged to an individual some 25 feet long. 
The only remains of this animal hitherto found in the Upper 
Green Sand are detached teeth; but a few bones have occurred 
in the Chalk of Kent and Cambridgeshire. 
The species Campylodon is the last survivor of the genus 
Icthyosaurus. The occurrence of this specimen is interesting, as 
exhibiting a good example of the extraordinary pre-Adamite 
inhabitants of Wiltshire. 
For a full description of this reptile see Professor Owen’s 
Monograph of the reptiles of the Chalk, in the volume of the 
Palzontographical Society for 1851. 
