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oval dark brown velvt-ty area on eacli side of the disk, wliicli 

 is bounded by a narrow pale yellowish margin. The elytra 

 are furnished with some sparsely scattered granules towards 

 the base, and with some sparse punctures, each of which is 

 marked in position by a small dark spot. 



This species may be easily recognized by the two large 

 oval and dark brown velvety areas on the pronotum. 



PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



December 21, 1892.— Prof. J. W. Judd, F.R.S., 

 Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " On a Sauropodous Dinosaurian Vertebra from the Wealden 

 of Hastings." By R. Lydekker, Esq., B.A., F.G.S. 



In addition to Hophsanru^ armatus and Pelerosavrns Conyheard, 

 there is evidence of another large Sauropodous Dinosaur in the 

 Wealden, now known as Morosaurus hrevis. Up to the present time 

 it has been impossible adeijuately to compare HopJusaurus armatus 

 with Morosaurus hrevvi ; but recently Mr. Ilufford has sent to the 

 British Museum an imperfect dorsal vertebra of a large Sauropodous 

 Dinosaur from the Wealden of Hastings, which enabled the required 

 comparison to be made. The Author describes the vertebra, con- 

 trasts it with that of Iloplo^aurus armatus, and gives presumptive 

 evidence that it should bo referred to the so-called Morosaurus 

 Beclrlesi (Marsh), which apparently cannot be separated from 

 M. (Cetiosaurus) brevis. He has not been able to compare Mr. 

 Rufford's specimen with the dorsals of the American Morosaurus, 

 in order to discover whether the English Dinosaur is correctly 

 referred to that genus. 



2. " On some additional Remains of Cestraciont and other Fishes in 

 the Green Gritty Marls, immediately overlying the Red Marls of the 

 Upper Keuper in "Warwickshire." By the Rev. P. B. Brodie, M.A. 



The vertebrate remains occur in a very thin band of marly friable 

 sandstone lying between two beds of green marl, though in some 

 places the same bed has itself no admixture of sandy material. 

 Bones and teeth are so numerous that it might almost be called a 

 bone-bed. It does not exceed three inches in thickness. It 

 contains ichthyodorulites of Cestraciont fishes, abundant palatal 

 teeth of Acrodus heuperinus, ganoid fish-scales, and abundant 

 broken bones, some of which may belong to fishes, others to laby- 

 rinthodonts, and amongst the latter a fragment of a cranial bone. 



3. " Calanwstachys Binneyana, Schimp." By Thomas Hick, Esq., 

 B.A., B.Sc. Communicated" by J. AV. Davis, Esq., F.G.S. , F.L.S. 



A number of preparations lately placed in the hands of the 

 Author by Mr. AV. Cash, of Halifax, give much additional in- 

 formation on many important points of detail connected with the 



