198 Prof. T, R. Jones and Dr. H. Woodward— 
maximum circumference and girth of 36 and 850 inches respectively, 
with a liquid capacity of rather more than two gallons; it has been 
noticed by Capellini in the Mem. Acad. Inst. Bologna, 1889, ser. 4, 
vol. x. p. 16. 
Although relics of an exactly similar fauna have been made known 
from contemporaneous beds nearer the sea-border, particularly at 
Ambulisatra, on the south-west coast, considerable importance is 
to be attached to their occurrence inland, and in the centre of an 
extinct volcanic area. It must not, however, ~be forgotten that, as 
previously stated, Dr. Hildebrandt’s discovery of 1881 will rank as 
the first record of vertebrate remains from this special locality. 
Lastly, allusion may be made to the occurrence of Tortoise 
remains in the Quaternary deposits of Madagascar. ‘Two finely- 
preserved carapaces of gigantic size have recently been added to the 
Geological Gallery of the British Museum. They were obtained by 
Mr. Last, off the south-west coast of the island, in a cavern two 
miles from the sea, where they were found embedded in a loose, 
sandy soil. Mr. G. A. Boulenger! has identified them as Testudo 
Grandidieri, Vaillant,” an extinct species most nearly allied to the 
existing Testudo gigantea, Schweigger,> of the Aldabra Islands, an 
uninhabited group to the north-west of Madagascar. 
This comprises all the vertebrates at present known from the later 
Tertiary formations of Madagascar. There are, doubtless, many 
others yet to be disentombed, as the past fauna of this island conld 
not possibly have been of so restricted a character as to consist 
merely of a Crocodile, a Tortoise,a Bird and a Mammal. Fresh dis- 
coveries are sure to follow on a more detailed investigation of these 
beds, and collectors would do well to remember that the history of 
Aipyornis still remains incomplete as the skull and other important 
parts of its skeleton are not yet known to science. It is hoped that 
the chiefs of the Malagasy tribes may place no impediments in the 
way of explorers who are endeavouring to obtain these buried relics 
relating to, so interesting a subject as, the extinct fauna of their 
country. : 
II.—On some Panmozorc Puyniopopous AND oTHER Fossrts. 
By Prof. T. Rupert Jonzs, F.R.S. and Dr. Hy. Woopwarp, F.R.S. 
(PLATE X.) 
OME of this miscellaneous series of old fossils have been in the 
collections in the British Museum many years; but, owing. to 
their small size and doubtful characters, they have not found an 
abiding place in any special zoological group. 
Others have been lately submitted to us for examination by Mr. 
G. J. Williams, F.G.S., of Blaenau Ffestiniog ; and four of these have 
decidedly Phyllopodous or Phyllocaridal alliances. 
1 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1893, part 4, p. 581. 
* Remarques complémentaires sur les Tortues gigantesques de Madagascar, Comptes 
Rendus, 1885, vol. c. p. 874. 
5 Prodromi monographie Cheloniorum, 1814, p. 58. 
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