286 8QT7AMATA. 



R. 391. An imperfect middle dorsal vertebra ; from King's Creek, 

 Gowrie, Queensland. 



Presented by G. H. Hartmann, Esq., 1884. 



R. 292. An imperfect middle dorsal vertebra ; from Queensland. 



Presented by Dr. George Bennett, 1882. 



47836. A very imperfect dorsal vertebra ; from Queensland. 



Presented by Br. George Bennett. 



R. 391 a. The centrum of a dorsal vertebra ; from Queensland. 



Presented by G. II. Hartmann, Esq., 1884. 



39967. The right half of the centrum of a dorsal vertebra ; from 

 Queensland. Presented by Sir B. Goojoer, Bart., 1866. 



49655. A crushed and very imperfect dorsal vertebra ; from the 

 Pleistocene of the Castleregh River, New South Wales. , 

 Presented by the Bev. W. B. Glarke, 1878. 



39967 a. An imperfect caudal vertebra ; from Queensland. Figured 

 (Fig.) by Owen in the < Phil. Trans.' 1880, pi. xxxv. figs. 3, 4. 

 Presented by Sir D. Gooper, Bart., 1866. 



Family TEIID^E. 



Postorbital bar and temporal arcade complete ; supratemporal 

 fossa not roofed over. Dentition pleurodont or subacrodont ; teeth 

 variable, but always solid at the base ; if any are present on the 

 pterygoids they are small. No dermal scutes. 



Genus TUPINAMBIS, Daudin \ 



Cheek-teeth laterally compressed in the young, but with obtuse 

 crowns in the adult. 



Cttptnambts! Ugtttrtn (Linn. 8 ). 

 Syn. Lacerta teguixin, Linn. s 



The type species. 



Ilab. South America (Guianas to Uruguay) and West Indies. 



18903. The greater part of the right dcntary and splenial bones 



1 Syst. Kept. vol. iii. p. 6 (1802). 



a Syst. Nat. ed. 12, vol. i. p. 308 (17G6).— Lacerta. 



3 Loc. cit. 



