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“ With regard to species, the figures and descriptions of the Queensland 
specimens are at once coirelusive of their distinctness from any form yet determined 
from the distant Lord Howe Island, though they were not specifically distinguished or 
named by Professor Huxley.- They are thus at present nameless ; and I would venture 
to suggest that they may he appropriately known as Meiolania Oweni.” 
Mr. C. W. De Vis, the able Curator of the Queensland Museum, had, however, 
without any knowledge of Mr. Smith Woodward’s views, arrived at a precisely similar 
opinion * touching the Laeertilian character of the bones on which Megalama was 
originally established, and that the “attribution to' it of a horned skull is untenable. 
Notwithstanding the fact that both Messrs. Smith Woodward, Lydekker, and 
De Yis appear to regard Megalania, Owen, as restricted, simply as a Varamcs, or 
Gigantic Monitor, I have for convenience’ sake, and until the discovery of further and 
more complete remains, retained the generic appellation. 
The vertebral, remarks Mr. K. Lydekker, agree in general character with those 
of Varanus sivalensis, Palconer, but attain three times the dimensions. 
Xoc. and Horizon. Branch of the Condamine Itiver (Collu. Brit. Mus.) ; 
Gowrie, Darling Downs {Mr. St. Jean) — Pluviatile deposits. 
Gemis—VABANUS, Merran, 1820. 
(Tent. Syst. Amijhib., p. 68.) t 
Varauus DTEirs, De Vis. 
Varanus diruSf De "Vis, Proc. It. Soc. Queensland, 1889, vi., Pts. 2 and 3, p. 98. 
Obs. Founded on a large Varan tooth, in which the compression usually seen in 
representatives of this genus is carried to an unusual extent. “ Its height and breadth 
at the base are thrice those of a corresponding tooth of V. varius — wherefore, on the 
assumption of like proportions throughout, it represents a Varan of about sixteen feet 
in length.” 
Loc. and Horizon. King’s Creek, Darling Downs {R. W. Jiros^— Collu . Queensland 
Mus.) — Fluviatile deposits. 
Vaeantjs emeritus, De Vis. 
Varanus emeritus. De "Uis, Proc. R. Soc. Queensland, 1889, vi., Pfcs. 2 and 3, p. 98. 
Obs. Laeertilian remains consi.sting of portions of a humerus and tibia. The 
humerus is “ from an adult individual, and indicates a species not greatly larger than an 
average V. varius ; the tibia represents an individual nearly one-half as large again.” 
Loc. and Horizon. King’s Creek, Darling Downs {R. W. Frost — Colin. Queens- 
land Mus.) — Fluviatile deposits. 
Oenus—HOTIOSAURUS, Owen, 1884. 
(Proc. E. Soc., xxxvi., p. 221.) 
Noxiosaueus destatus, Owen. 
Notiosaurus dentatus, Owen, Proc. E. Soc., 1884, xxxvi., p. 221. 
, „ Owen, Phil. Trans., 1884, clxxv., Pt. 1, p. 249, t. 12. 
1 . „ „ De Vis, Proc. E. Soc. Queensland, 1885, ii., Pt. 1, p. 25, t. 1-3 (humerus and scapula) ; 
” ,’ De Vis, Ibid., 1889, vi., Pt. 2 and 3, p. 97. 
Obs. The remains of a Pleurodont Laeertilian, consisting of “the outer end of a 
dentary element of the mandible,” with portions of two teeth in situ, were described 
♦Proc. E. Soc. Queensland, 1889, vi., Pts. 2 and 3, p. 97. 
t Fide Lydekker, Cat. Poss. Eeptilia and Amphibia Brit. Mus., 1888, Pt. 1, p. 281. 
