106 Prof. II. G. Sceley on the 



its under surface from front to back and convex from side to 

 side. 



Nos. 332, 333, 334, 335 are p-obably cervical vertebras ; 

 but their condition of preservation contributes nothing to 

 knowledge of the type, and I believe they pertain to another 

 species. 



Dorsal Vertehrce. 



The dorsal vertebra have the centrum only preserved, 

 though in the specimen numbered 336 the base of the neural 

 arch is seen. These vertebrae, owing to the lateral com- 

 pression of the centrum and the attachment of the neural arch 

 along the whole length of the centrum, have a Teleosauroid 

 aspect ; tlicy measure 2t^o inches in length. The measure- 

 ment on the neural canal exceeded that on the ventral border, 

 showing that the back of tlie animal was arched upward in 

 the antero-posterior direction. The articular ends are laterally 

 compressed, being higher than wide, vertically ovate, 2'2inches 

 high by ll broad, flattened but slightly concave. The 

 transverse measurement in the middle of the centrum is about 

 x^Tj inch. The base is markedly concave from front to back 

 and notably convex from side to side. There is only a slight 

 indication of the transverse widening of the neural arch. This 

 vertebra apparently is figured in Cat. Foss. Rept. Brit. Mus. 

 pt. iv. p. 249, 1890 *. 



Sacral Vertehrce. (Fig. 2.) 



The specimen 346 (fig. 2) I regard as referable to Masso- 

 spondylus carinatus. It was referred to Pachuspondylus Orpeni 



Fig. 2. 



/y /\ Encroachment of the sacral 



^l/lii'llil'^Vs rib on the centrum. 



Ventral aspect of sacral vertebra. No. 346. 



in Sir R. Owen's Catalogue of the Royal College of Surgeons. 

 It is depressed, broadly convex on the base, with an oblique 



* The preuus there rests partly upon teeth from India named Masso- 

 gjwndylus Hislopi, from Maleri Gundwanabeds, and the 3Iussospondyhis (?) 

 Jlaivesi, from the Lameta beds. I am not aware that auy teeth from 

 South Africa of the type of Massosjj(mdi/Ius have been found. The teeth 

 of Rhopalodon are not unlike those attributed to 3Iassosjwndi/lus Hislopi. 

 The Indian bones of Anomodonts hitherto known, however, are from the 

 Pauchet rocka. 



