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42681. Five vertebrae, of which three are dorsal, one sacral, and one 

 caudal; from the Pleistocene cave-deposits of the Wellington 

 Valley, New South Wales. 

 Presented by the Trustees of the Australian Museum, 1870. 



Group B. — The dorsal vertebra? short and wide, with narrow neural 

 spines. Both species of large size. (Megalania, Owen.) 



Varanus sivalensis, Falconer l . 



Of large size ; the estimated length being about 3,660 (12 feet). 

 Hab. India. 



R. 739 a. An imperfect anterior dorsal vertebra ; from the Lower 



(Fig.) Pliocene of the Siwalik Hills, India. Figured by the 



writer in the ' Palseontologia Indica ' (Mem. Geol. Surv. 



Ind.), ser. x. vol. iv. p. 55, fig. 11 ; one of the figures 



being reproduced in the accompanying woodcut (fig. 65). 



Cautley Collection. Presented, 1840. 



Fig. 65. 



Varanus sivalensis. — Hainial aspect of an anterior dorsal vertebra; from the 

 Pliocene of the Siwalik Hills. \. (From the ' Palaontologia Indica.') 



R. 740. A larger posterior dorsal vertebra, wanting the neural 

 spine ; from the Siwalik Hills 2 . Same history. 



40819. The distal portion of the right humerus ; from the Siwalik 



(Fig.) Hills. The type specimen. Figured in ' Falconors 



Palacontological Memoirs,' vol. i. pi. xxxii. figs. 4-7 ; and 



also by the writer, op. cit. vol. iii. pi. xxxv. figs. 1, la, lb. 



Presented by C. Falconer, Esq., 1807. 



1 Palseontological Memoirs, vol. i. pi. xxxii. (1868). 



3 The specimen noticed under this number by the writer, 1. r , as a cervical 

 vertebra of this species proves to bo Chelonian 



