118 Prof. H. G. Seeley on some Vertehrce and 



The specimen 386, which is compared in the College of 

 Sur<jeons Catalogue to a segment of the lower jaw of a 

 Teleosaiir, does not show any characters which I recognize as 

 justifying its reference to the jaw ; and the bone seems to me 

 more likely to be a segment from a large chevron-bone of an 

 nndescribed Saurischian. 



From these evidences of the structure of the vertebral 

 column, pelvis, hind limb, and humerus, it seems to be 

 probable that the unknown parts of the skeleton will also 

 show a general resemblance to the types found in the Trias of 

 Europe, such as Palceosaitrus and Zanclodon. 



I express my thanks to the President and Council of the 

 Royal College of Surgeons for permission to draw these bones. 



On some Vertehrce and Limb -hones from the Telle River ^ Cape 

 Colony^ provisionally described as Massospondylus (?) 

 Browni {Seeley). 



Mr. Alfred Brown, of Aliwal North, obtained a small series 

 of bones from the Telle River, north of the Witte Bergen, in 

 the Mattisi country, which are of some interest. They com- 

 prise the right and left femora, one and a half cervical 

 vertebrae in contact with each other, a dorsal vertebra, three 

 small caudals, together with five fragments of metatarsal 

 bones, six claw-phalanges, and fourteen digital phalanges of 

 the foot, which appear to indicate five digits decreasing in size 

 from the innermost outward. 



In general character the bones approximate most closely to 

 Massospondylus, but they are much smaller than the bones of 

 M. carinatus. The extremities of the limb-bones are less 

 expanded, and there is a twist and curvature in the femur of 

 which the remains of Massosj)ondylus carinatus give no 

 evidence. The neck-vertebrae are similarly elongated, the 

 dorsal vertebra is similaily compressed. The phalanges are 

 somewhat depressed, but not to the same extent as in the 

 species already di-scribed. The claw-phalanges are of similar 

 character. It is possible that the remains may hei'eafter 

 show generic diflferences ; but at present it is not inconvenient 

 to refer this fossil provisionally to Massospondylus, as a new 

 species, which may be named M. Browni. 



The geological horizon is apparently above the coal of Cape 

 Colony, in the Stormberg beds, to which the bones are referred 

 by Mr. Brown. 



