258 On a Megalosaurian Tibia from the Lower Lias. 



bone was obtained during the sinking of a well near Wilmcote 

 railway-station, and was found imbedded in a shelly limestone 

 which Mr. R. Bullen Newton assigns to the zone of Am. 

 angulatus. As the only evidence of a Megalosaurian hitherto 



Rig-lit tibia of a Megalosaurian Dinosaur, one quarter nat. size, posterior 

 view (A), with the lower part in anterior view (B) and in end- 

 view (C). — Lower Lias ; Wilmcote, Warwickshire. [Brit. Mus. 

 no. R. 3542.] ag,, facette for ascending- process of astragalus ; 

 en., cnemial crest, bent inwards and backwards ; fi., facette for 

 fibula ; r., ridge ; tr., trochlear surface for astragalus. 



recorded from the Lias is a single tooth from the Lower Lias 

 of Lyme Regis*, this new specimen is of considerable 

 interest. 



* R. Lydekker, ' Catal. Foss. Rept B.M.' pt. i. (1888) p. 173, fig. 28. 



