- 151 — 
Singülarly enough the specimen submitted to me was 
here in the same condition: but 1 obtained the requisite 
permission from its discoverer, 
D-r Guiton Atherstone, and, 
upon careful removal of the 
matrix — a fine reddish sand- 
stone — brought to light the ba- 
trachian character of the pair 
of large condyles shown in fig. 
4, 2, 2. 
The concurrence of this cha- 
racter with that in the skull of 
the Labyriuthodont reptile from 
the Mängali sandstones of Cen- 
tral India, *) formerly determi- 
ned by me, and carried out by 
other concordances in ^ shape structure of the skull, 
which the South African fossil presented with those 
from both India and Moscou, left no hesitation in re- 
ferring the subject of fig-s 1 — 4, of the present com- 
munication to the cxtinct Batrachian order Labyrmtho- 
dontia, and to the family E'iuideMiculata 'Catalogue 
of fossil Reptilia from South Africa, 4to, p. 48. The 
minor characters difFerentiating the South African Fos- 
sil from Brachyops and BMnosaursus seem to be of 
generic value and I have therefore entered the speci- 
men in my 'Catalogue of South African Reptilia , under 
diquer la forme, et l'objet ne m'appartenant pas, ne me permet 
point d'y porter quelque changement" (p. 7). 
♦) Brachyops laticeps^ Owen. 'Qiiarterly Journal of the Geological 
Society of LondoD^ 8-?o, Vol XL, p. 37, plate II, fig. 1, 2, 2 (1854). 
