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on he confused some Ohelonian remains with those of the truly Lacertilian 
Megalania, searching after this for the relationship of Megalania amongst 
the Agamidae. Regarding these points I should like merely to refer to what 
has been said in the above named chapter about the subject. 
Finally* in 1888, the question has been definitively settled by an 
excellent paper of Mr. A. Smith Woodward, who, as mentioned in the 
I Et Part, in his «Note on the Extinct Reptilian Genera Megalania, Owen, 
and Meiolania, Owen » has‘proved that an occipital fragment 
and some vertebrae (cervical, dorsal and sacral) are the unique remains 
belonging to the Lacertilian Megalania, whilst other remains (cranium, 
tail-sheath and foot-bones) gathered up by Sir R. Owen under the same 
name (« Megalania prisca ») were erroneously determined, and in reality 
belong to the Che Ionian Meiolania platyceps Ow. and Meilonania 
Oweni A. S. Woodw. hom. ine., as well as to a Marsupial genus (foot- 
bones). 
Thus until 1888, only the following remains ought to be regarded 
as truly M e g a lanian: 1° Vertebrae, described and figured by 
Sir. R. Owen in 1860, Phil. Trans., Voi. 149, pp. 48-48, Pis. VII -VIII; 
2° Vertebrae and an occipital fragment, described and 
figured by Sir R. Owen in 1881, Phil. Trans., Voi. 171, pp. 1087—1040, 
Pis. XXXIV—XXXVI; and finally 8° Vertebrae described and 
figured by Sir R. Owen in 1887, Phil. Trans., Voi. 177, pp. 327, 328, PI. 
XIII. — The other remains described or figured by Sir R. Owen (Ph>l. 
Trans.) are thus not Megalanian, and shall be left out of conside¬ 
ration here. 1 
In 1885 Sir R. Owen published his note on a dentary-f ragment from 
Xew-South-Wales, described by him under the name of Notiosaurus den¬ 
tatus (Phil. Trans., Voi. 175, p. 249—251, PI. 12). Mr. A. S. Woodward 
does not mention this fossil, which, undoubtedly must be regarded as a 
fragment of Megalania prisca, the denomination of Notiosaurus dentatus 
being thus a synonym. 
A year later, as Mr. Woodward’s paper appeared, viz. in 1889, Mr. 
C. M. de Vis has published, — quite independently from Mr. Woodward - 
a treatise «On Megalania and its Allies» 2 in which he describes a younger 
individual of Megalania, the remains of which — found by Mr. R. W. Frost 
at King’s Creek in a common matrix — consist of the following 
elements : 3 «. . . a series of eight vertebrae (recognisable at a glance as Mega* 
1 See Woodward, op. cit. p. 89. 
2 Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, Vol. VI, Brisbane, p. 93—99, & five figs, 
on PI. IV. 
3 Op. cit. p. 94. 
