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oval dark brown velvety area on each side of the disk, which 

 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 wliich 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 Hojylosaurus armaius and Pelerosaurus Conyhearei, 

 there is evidence of another large Sauropodous Dinosaur in the 

 Wealden, now known as Morosaums hrevis. Up to the j)resent time 

 it lias been impossible adequately to compare Hophsaunis armatus 

 with Morosanrus hrevis ; but recently Mr. RufFord has sent to the 

 British Museum an imperfect dorsal vertebra of a large Sauropodous 

 Dinosaiir from the Wealden of Hastings, which enabled the required 

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

 trasts it with that of Hoplosaurus armatus, and gives presumptive 

 evidence that it should be referred to the so-called Morosaiiriis 

 BecMesi (Marsh), which apparently cannot be separated from 

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

 RuflFord's specimen with the dorsals of the American Morosaums^ 

 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 Xeuper 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 sand}^ 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 Cestraciout fishes, abundant palatal 

 teeth of Acrodus K'euperinus, 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. " CalamostacJiys Binneyana, Schimp."' By Thomas Hick, Esq., 

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



A number of preparations lately placed in the hands of the 

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

 formation on many important points of detail connected with the 



