Megalania, Owen^ and Meiolania^ Oioen. 89 



Queensland specimens are at once conclusive of their dis- 

 tinctness from any form yet determined from the distant 

 Lord Howe's Island, though they were not specifically dis- 

 tinguished or named by Professor Huxley. They are thus at 

 present nameless ; and I would venture to suggest that they 

 may be most appropriately known as Meiolania Oweni, in 

 honour of the distinguished comparative anatomist who has 

 contributed more than any other to our knowledge of the 

 Pleistocene Vertebrata of the far-off antipodes. Sir Richard 

 Owen has often undertaken the interpretation of fragments 

 which many would have looked upon as quite undeterminable j 

 and by this bestowal of labour upon most unpromising mate- 

 rials he has aroused the enthusiasm of his colonial correspon- 

 dents, which has resulted in the enormous mass of information 

 now available concerning these ancient faunas, and has 

 secured for the British Museum of Natural History that 

 unrivalled scries of Australasian remains which is one of its 

 most distinctive features. 



In conclusion it will be convenient for reference to tabulate 

 the foregoing results as follows : — 



Megalania i^Varanus) prisca^ Owen. 



Megalania jtrisca, Owen, Phil. Trans. 1859, pp. 43-48, pis. vii., viii. 



(Vertebrae.) 

 Megalania prisca, Owen, ibid. 1880, pp. 1037-1040, pis. xxxiv.-xxxvi. 



(Vertebrae and occipital fragment.) 

 Megalania prisca, Owen, ibid, 1886, pp. 327, 328, pi. xiii. (Vertebrae.) 



Meiolania Oiveni, A. S. Woodw. 



Megalufiia jprisca^ Owen (errore), ibid. 1880, pp. 1041-1048, pis. xxxvii., 



xxxviii. (Cranium.) 

 Megalania prisca, Owen (errore), ibid. 1881, pp. 647-556, pis. ixiv.- 



ixvi. (Tail-sheath.) 

 Ceratoclielys sthenurus, Huxley (iu part), Proc. Roy. Soc. vol. xlii. 



(1887), p. 237. (Queensland cranium and tail-sheath.) 



Meiolatiia jjlatyceps^ Owen (?aIso M. minor ^ Owen). 



Meiolania plaiyceps, Owen, and M. minor, Owen, Phil. Trans. 1886, 

 pp. 471-480, pis. xxix., xxx. (Portions of sliull and tail-sheath, &c.) 



Ceratuchelys sthenurus, Huxley (in part), Proc. Roy. Soc, vol. xlii. 

 (1887), pp. 232-238. (Various parts of skeleton.) 



Marsupial Foot-bones. 



Megalania prisca (errore), Owen, Phil. Traus, 1886, pp. 328-330, 

 pis. xiv., XV. (Foot-bones.) 



