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early reptiles which are well enough known to make a com- 
parison of much value, and then to discuss some of the less known 
Permian types which resemble it. 
Text-figure 5. 
Adelosaurus huxleyi (Hancock & Howse). 
Left fore limb and right scapulo-coracoid. X 15. 
From the type-specimen in the Hancock Museum, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 
Comparison with Cotylosaurs. 
The palate with its abundant armature of teeth is somewhat 
similar to that of the Captorhinide, in which the distribution of 
the teeth and even some details, such as the shape of the ptery- 
goids and the length of the parasphenoid, are identical. 
The basisphenoid of Broomia differs, however, from that of all 
known Cotylosaurs in its very great breadth and only very 
slightly marked tubera. i, as seems probable, the side wall 
of the skull was cut away in Broomia, we have a very striking 
