— 151 — 



Singularly enough the specimen submitted to me was 

 here in the same condition: but 1 obtained the requisite 

 b'ig. 4. permission from its discoverer, 



D-r Guiton Atherstone, and, 

 upon careful removal of the 

 matrix — a fine reddish sand- 

 stone — brought to light the ba- 

 trachian character of the pair 

 of large condyles shown in fig. 

 4, 2, 2. 



The concurrence of this cha- 

 racter with that in the skull of 

 the Labyrinthodont reptile from 

 the Mangali sandstones of Cen- 

 tral India, *) formerly determi- 

 Petrophryne granuiata. ned by mc, and Carried out by 



other concordances in — shape structure of the skull, 



which the South African fossil presented with those 

 from both India and Moscou, left no hesitation in re- 

 ferring the subject of fig-s 1 — 4, of the present com- 

 munication to the extinct Batrachian order Ldbyrintho- 

 dontia, and to the family Ejuidenticulata 'Catalogue 

 of fossil Reptilia from South Africa', 4to, p. 48. The 

 minor characters differentiating the South African Fos- 

 sil from Brachyops and Bhinosaursus seem to be of 

 generic value and I have therefore entered the speci- 

 men in my 'Catalogue of South African Reptilia , under 



diquer la forme, et l'objet ne m'appartenaut pas, ne me permet 

 point d'y porter quelque changement" (p. 7). 



*) Brachyops Шгсерз, Owen. 'Quarterly Journal of the Geological 

 Society of London', 8-vo, Vol XL, p. 37, plate II, fig. 1, 2, 2 (1854). 



