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THE REPTILES OF LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND. 
Teleosaurus, Greolfroy St. Hilaire (sp. ind.). 
In Rutland. — I find this extinct Crocodile (species not determined) also 
credited * to the Great Oolite, Belmesthorpe. 
Order DINOSAUEIA. 
Sub- ORDER THE HOP OD A. 
Fai^iily CCELUEID^. 
Tanysirophceivs, Owen. 
Mr. James Plant, F.G.S., wrote, at p. 40 ‘Report of the Leicester Lit. and 
Phil. Soc.’, under date 6th April, 1874: — “ I have in my possession a single hone, 
which I took some years ago from these upper triassic beds ; f it is one of the 
caudal vertebrae or tail bones of a reptile (probably Tanystrophoeus, Owen), new 
to the British Islands, although abundant in Central Europe. No bone like it, as 
far as my information extends, has yet been taken in any other locality. Its 
description awaits further discoveries of a like kind, for where there is one, there 
must have been more, and they only want searching for.” But, as Mr. Plant 
appeared unwilling to allow me to have it examined, in order that it might be 
recorded in this book, I was compelled to trouble Professor H. G. Seeley, F.R.S., 
etc., etc., who kindly wrote me that it was, he believed, half a caudal vertebra, 
and “ certainly had no near affinity with Tanysti'ophoeus,” which must, therefore, 
be expunged from the lists, leaving the “ bone ” still undetermined. 
Order S QUAMATA. 
Sub-order OPHIDIA. 
Section COLUBRIFOEMES. 
Family COLUBEID^. 
COMMON SNAKE. Tropidonotus natrix (Linnaeus). 
“ Grass-Snake,” “ Ringed Snake.” 
Resident and commonly distributed, especially throughout Charnwood Forest ; 
and the IMuseum possesses several from there, and from other parts of the 
county. 
* Etheridge, p. 291, ‘ The Geology of Rutland,’ etc. 
t Upper Keuper Sandstone, near Leicester. 
