âSâ * •. oi -îjvi dk "í’EJ-éryá®íY' ■' c r■* 
dure in this direction on the part of geo-pala eontologists, imexpert in zoo¬ 
logy, or zoologists limiting their interest but to the recent fauna, would 
fatally lead to an utter confusion on the-subject and no specialist will any¬ 
more ..be able to gain a clear insight amidst the. numberless «new>> species 
and genera. 
Hab. : Stätzling (Germany). 
3. Varanus maratlionensis Weith. Lower Pliocene ; Prae- 
glacial and Neoliti c period. 
Reptile du Groupe des Varans, Gatidry, Anim. fosé. et Géol 
de VAttique, Paris, 1862 67, p. 318, PL LX, Fig. 3-4. 
Varanus marathonensis, Weithoper, Beitr. z. Keiintu. d. Fauna v. Pikermi 
b, Athen, Beitr. z . Pal. u. Gcol. Ôst.-Ung., Bd, VI, Wien, 1888. p. 291-292, Taf. XIX, 
Fig. 8-9. 
Varanus spec., Morelli, Resti organici rinven. nella caverna delle Arene Can¬ 
dide, Rettili, Atti Soc. Ligustica Se. Nat. e Geogr., Vol. II, Genova, 1891, p. 172. 
'Varanus aticus, NopCSa, Beitr. z. Kenntn. d. Föss. Eid., Beitr. z. Paläont« u» 
’GeoL Öst.-Hng., Bd. XXI, Wien ùnd Leipzig, 1908. p. 47. 
Yaranus,deserticqlus, Bolkay, Add. to the foss. Herp. of Hungary from the Pann 
a. Prægl. Period, Mitteil. a. d.. Jahrb./d. kgl. ung. Geol. Reichsanst., Bd, XXI, Budapest. 
1913. p. 222-223, Pl. XXI, Fig. 2. 1 
' F. marathonensis,: as akeady mentioned,. has ; been first described 
from Hungary by Polka y (op. cit.) in 1918 under the name of «F. deserti- 
coins».- Since then.besides the fragmentary dentale from Beremend (County 
of Baranya) described by Bolkay, thanks to Dr. Th. Kormos, an inde¬ 
fatigable explorer in the domain of Vertebrate-fauna originating from the 
Tertiary and Quarterly formations of Hungary, a few comparatively well 
preserved vertebræ have been found lately in the P r a e g 1 a c i a 1 bone- 
breccia of G s a f n ó t a (County of Baranya). Gaudry’s (op. cit.)'excel¬ 
lent drawings -having enabled me to, establish an identity beyond 
doubt between Bolkay’s K. ; de0fricoi/us and. the V. marathonensis des¬ 
cribed by Weithofer, I have, by virtue of the rules of priority, synony- 
mized the former with the Pikermi species. 
The. good condition of the remains afforded a favourable opportunity 
for an exact description of the characters known up to now of this mor¬ 
phologically so to say as yet unknown species, which I have, amongst 
recent ones, compared with the Asiatic-African V. griseus Baud., 
the African V. niloticus L., the Indian V. salvator Laur., V. Dumérüi 
Schleu., V. indiens Baud., V.benyalensis Baud., the Papuan F. prasinus 
1 The same treatise appeared, also in the Hungarian issue o| the ?ame Periodic» 
