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Squamata — Anguidce , Va ran idee, etc. 
Tat>le-case, 
No. 12. 
from the Pnrbeck beds of Swanage, Dorset, a small lizard with 
pleurodont dentition, dermal scutes, and procoelous vertebrae. 
The genus Adriosaurus is from the Lower Greensand of 
Austria ; there is also a fossil lizard as large as a Monitor from 
the Cambridge Greensand, of unknown affinities.* 
Coniasauriis, with expanded teeth, occurs in the Chalk of 
Kent and Sussex. Several genera of lizards are represented in 
the Tertiaries of France and America. Remains of a species of 
Iguana occur in the Eocene Phosphorites of T rance, and the 
Middle Eocene of Hordwell, Hampshire. 
Fig. 31. — (A) Outer, and (B), inner views of the left dentary bone of an Anguoid 
Lizard ; from the Eocene l’hosphorites of Cay lux, France. p. 
The Anguidcc (Slow-worms) are represented bv several 
genera from Gers in France (M. Miocene), and from Rott, near 
Bonn (Lr. Miocene); from Steinheim, Bavaria; and from 
England and Hortli America. 
Fig. 32.— (A) Right Maxilla; (B) Anterior, and (C) Posterior views of a dorsal 
vertebra of Vaninas ienc/alensis (D.iudin), Pleistocene, Madras. 
The Varanidce (Monitors) are represented by a very large 
form, Megalania, from Queensland, Australia, and by Varanns 
sivalensis from the Siwalik Hills of India. Fragments of jaws, 
vertebrae, etc., referred to Varanus bengalensis , from caves, Kar- 
nul. Madras, are preserved in the collection. Similar specimens 
have been described by Mr. Lydekker ( see Palaeontologia Indica). 
* Not represented in the Collection. 
