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me to supplement and correct the original description. Fvirther 

 information might doubtless be obtained by developing some parts 

 of the fossil — the i-egion of the shoulder-girdle for instance ; but 

 from the great historical interest which attaches to the specimen, 

 it was deemed advisable to preserve the condition in which it left 

 the hands of its original describer. 



B (Plates XXX. & XXXI. fig. 1).— A nearly complete speci- 

 men, minus the tail, from the East Quarry, Lossiemouth, found 

 in 1898, in two slabs. This specimen, lying perfectly flat in the 

 sandstone block, with veiy little distortion, is important as show- 

 ing the general pi-opoi-tions, and the exact shape of the skull as 

 seen from above. Part of the left fore limb is exposed, and by 

 chiselling the matrix both hind limbs were brought to light, 

 without the feet unfoi-tunately, the block tei-minating in a line 

 with the base of the tail. Much of the bone is preserved in 

 this fossil, but in a very friable condition. The skull measures 

 50 millim. in length, and the prfecaudal vertebral colvimn 13. 



C (Plate XXXI. fig. 2). — An imperfect skull, much stained by 

 oxide of iron, showing the left orbit, the greater part of the 

 fronto-parietal region, of which very little of the osseous sub- 

 stance is left, and the pulp-cavities of most of the upper teeth. 

 This very important specimen was obtained in the West Quarry 

 at Lossiemouth in 1902. 



These three specimens have now come into the possession of 

 the Geological Department of the British Museum, and have 

 kindly been placed at my disposal for study by Dr. A. Smith 

 Woodward, who has besides granted me the valuable services of the 

 excellent preparator, Mr. Richard Hall, by whose skill specimen 

 B has been further developed. And in order that I should have 

 before me all the material known to exist at present. Dr. Ti'aquair 

 consented to send on loan to the British Museum the type 

 specimen of Telerj^eton elghiense now in the Mviseum of Science 

 and Ai-t, Edinburgh*. 



I beg to express my sincere thanks to Mr. Taylor, to Dr. A. S. 

 Woodward, to Dr. Ti'aquair, and to Mr. Hall for having enabled 

 me to prepare the account now published. 



A rapid first inspection of the new material showed that the 

 skull was characterised by enoi-mous oi'bits, bordered behind by a 

 narrow, impei-forate sujaratempoi-al roof, a very lai'ge pineal fora- 

 men, and ti'ansvei'sely enlai-ged, bilobate lateral teeth, characters 

 which at once suggested to my mind special affinity with the 

 South- African Permo-Triassic Procolophon (Plate XXXI. fig. 3), 

 whilst the dentition at the same time recalled the figvires given 



* The statement in the British Museum Catalogue of Fossil Reptiles, i. p. 295, 

 that this type is preserved in the Museum at Elgin is the result of misinformation. 

 It formed part of the Powrie Collection, which was acquired for the Edinburgh 

 Museum in 1891. 



