MEGILOSAURID^:. 



169 



42997. The [right femur, imperfect proximally and distally ; from 

 (Fig.) the Upper Cretaceous of Maastricht, Holland. The type 



(fig. 27) ; figured by Seeley in the ' Quart. Journ. Geol. 



Soc/ vol, xxxix. p. 247, fig. 1. 



Van Breda Collection, Purchased, 1871. 



Fig. 27. 



Megalosaurus bredai. — The right femur, from the anter or (A), inner (B), and 

 outer (C) aspects ; from the Maastricht beds. ^. h, head ; It, inner 

 trochanter ; pt, great (proximal) trochanter. (From the ' Quart. Journ. 

 Geol. Soc.') 



Genus DRYPTOSAURUS, Marsh \ 

 Syn. Lcelaps, Cope 2 . 



Nearly allied to Megalosaurus, with which Leidy (Proc. Ac. Nat. 

 Sci. Philad. 1868, p. 198) suggests that it may prove identical. 



1 Amer. Journ. ser. 3, vol. xiv. p. 88, note (1877). 



2 Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1866, p. 276.— Preoccupied by a genus of 

 Arachnida. 



