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Fig. 9. 



Molinia intermedia. Skull, adult. 



name of 0. marginatum, which is in the Belfast Museum. 

 It is said to have been brought from Sierra Leone ; but I 

 think this must be a mistake : it is not like the skull of 

 any Crocodile I have seen from West Africa, and it is not a 

 bad representation of the skull of a half-grown Bombifrons 

 indicus from India. Can the habitat be a mistake ? Per- 

 haps the habitat was only intended for the first-described 

 species, Cataphractus mecistops, for which it is the true 

 locality. 



A skull of Crocodilus vulgaris is described in Professor 

 Owen's ' Catalogue of the Osteological Specimens in the 

 Museum of the College of Surgeons ' under the name of 

 Crocodilus acutus, p. 157. no. 715. 



5. MOLINIA. 



Face elongate ; forehead swollen, convex, especially in 

 the adult ; orbits without any anterior ridge. Nuchal plates 

 two or four, small. Cervical disk rhombic, of sis plates, 

 the side plates generally small. The legs fringed with a 

 series of triangular elongate scales. Toes webbed. Scales 



of the forearm and thigh thin, smooth. Muzzle oblong, 

 elongate, slender, with a swollen convexity on the middle 

 of the face before the eyes. Nostril not separated by a 

 long ridge : the internal nostril posterior, with an oblong 

 sloping opening ; the intermaxillary suture produced be- 

 tween the ends of the nmxillse. 



Molinia, Gray, Ann. $ Mag. Nat. Hist. 3rd ser. x. p. 272 : 

 Trans. Zool. Soc. 1869, vi. p. 150. 



* Face slender. Dorsal plates irregular ; the central series 

 small, keeled ; lateral scattered, strongly keeled. Nasal 

 bones produced to the nostrils. Molinia. 



1. Molinia americana. (American Crocodile.) 



Crocodilus americanus (Plumieri), Schn. Amph. ii. p. 23. 



Gray, Cat. Tort. $ Croc. &C. B. M. p. 60. 

 Crocodilus acutus, Geoff. Ann. Mus. ii. p. 53, t. 57. f. 1 . 



( 'uvier, Oss. Foss. v. t. 1. f. 3 & 14, t. 2. f. 5. 



Gray, Syn. p. 60. 



Bum. If Bibr. Erp. Gen. iii. p. 120. 



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