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CROCODTLIA. 



Crocotltlug paluStrte, Lesson '. 



Syn. Crocodilus bombifrons, Gray 2 . 



The facial sculpture strongly marked and deep, rugose nodules in 

 advance of orbit, interorbital bar narrow and deeply concave, 

 maxillo-premaxillary suture on palate usually not extending behind 

 hinder border of 5th alveolus, premaxillary fissure heart-shaped, 

 superior surface of premaxilla shorter than nares, facial profile 

 concave. 



Hab. India and Burma. 



R. 1038. Several teeth provisionally referred to this species, as 

 being the commonest Crocodile of Western India ; from 

 the Pleistocene of the Narbada Yalley, India. 



Presented by C. Fraser, Esq., 1849. 



Crocodilus palustris. — 1, 2, lateral and upper views of skull; 3, palatal view of 

 cranium ; E, aperture of median eustachian canal ; N, posterior nares ; 

 O, orbit ; P, palato-pterygoid vacuity ; T, supratemporal fossa ; V, basi- 

 occipital. Much reduced. (From the ' Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc.') 



1 In Belanger's Voyage Ind. Orient., Zool. Eept. p. 305 (1834). 

 3 Cat. Tortoises, &c, in Brit. Mus. p. 59 (1844). 



