256 SQTTAMATA. 



32838. A number of vertebrae of which at least a large proportion 

 belong to this species ; from Hordwell. 



Hastings Collection. Purchased, 1855. 



32838 a. Two trunk vertebras in connection : from Hordwell. 



Same history. 



32838 b. Several vertebra? provisionally referred to this form ; from 

 Hordwell. Same history. 



R. 428 d. Several trunk vertebrae ; from the Phosphorites (Upper 

 Eocene= Lower Oligocene) of Caylux (Tarn-et- Garonne), 

 France. These specimens cannot be distinguished from 

 the types of the present form, and also present all the 

 characters of the larger vertebrae of the so-called P.fiTholi. 

 Noticed by the writer, op. cit. Purchased, 1885. 



26665 a. Four trunk vertebras probably belonging either to the 

 present or a closely allied species ; from the Lower 

 Miocene (Upper Oligocene) of St. Gerand-le-Puy (Allier), 

 France. Pomel Collection. Purchased, 1851. 



Genus non det. 



The following specimens, although of larger size, agree closely 

 with the vertebras of Narboa schlegeli, and probably belong either 

 to that genus or Liasis ; but there is no skeleton of the latter in the 

 Museum for comparison. The vertebras of Morelia are different. 

 The vertebral centra are much elongated and have a prominent 

 hasmal carina : in many respects these vertebras are very like the 

 one referred to Ptyas. 



Hah. Australia. 



42682. Six vertebras of a large snake ; from the Pleistocene of the 

 caves of the Wellington Yalley, New South Wales. 

 Presented by the Trustees of the Australian Museum, 1876. 



Family PAL^EOPHIDiE. 



Large snakes of probably marine habits. Yertebras with very 

 tall neural spines, which have no backwardly directed process at the 

 summit ; costal articulations placed low down on the centrum, and 

 the zygapophyses not expanded and scarcely reaching beyond the 

 lateral borders of the costal articulations. Hasmal carina on centrum 

 not unfrequently terminating in anterior and posterior processes. 



