386 Dr. F. P. Moreno — Miolania, etc., in Patagonia. 



several photographs of a skull discovered by Mr. Roth, which 

 photographs, when compared with the Australian specimens in the 

 British Museum (Natural History), give no place for doubt upon 

 tins matter. I think that it is sufficient for the present to give two 



Fig. 1. — Front view of skull (A) and side view of tail-sheath (B) of Miolania Oiveni 



(greatly reduced), from Pleistocene Deposits, Queensland, Australia. 



[Originally described as Megalania prisca (Owen, 1880).] 



€uts representing the two forms of Miolania. I expect in a few days 

 the original specimen from Patagonia, together with various bones 

 and additional remains of the caudal sheath, with some of the 

 carapace. These will be the subject of a special description by 

 Mr. Arthur Smith Woodward, who has so kindly commenced studies 

 on the fossil reptiles in the La Plata Museum. 



Fig. 2. — Reproduction of photograph of the front view of skull (with the lower jaw) 

 of Miolania, obtained in 1899 from Patagonia by Mr. Santiago Eoth, of the 

 La Plata Museum, Argentina. (Greatly reduced in size.) 



I have also brought with me to London a piece of a skin 

 discovered in a cave near Last Hope Inlet (lat. S. 51° 30'), which 

 I have referred to a species of the extinct Mylodon (see, " On 

 a Portion of Mammalian Skin, named Neomylodon listai, from 

 a Cavern near Consuelo Cove, Last Hope Inlet, Patagonia," by 

 Dr. F. P. Moreno, C.M.Z.S. ; with a description of the specimen 

 by A. Smith Woodward, F.Z.S.) ; while Mr, Ameghino has 

 announced that another piece of the same skin pertains to 

 a mammal still living, of small size, which he has called 

 Neomylodon. When I took this piece at Last Hope Inlet in 



