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XVI. ANNALES MUSEI NATIONALIS HUNGARICI. 1918. CONTRIBUTIONS TO A MONOGRAPHY ON FOSSIL VARANIDAE AND ON MEGALANIDAE. By Dr. Baron G. ű> DE FEJÉR VARY. (With 38 Figures in the Text and Plates I—IX), Of fossil Vamnidae as yet comparatively little is known, ulterior investigations having assigned a completely different systematic position to many remains previously defined as belonging to this family although ot in any wise connected with it. Thanks to my friend Dr. TH. KORMOS, who entrusted me with the examination of the fossil Varanus-iemums of the Hungarian Geological Institute at Budapest, and after due study of the literature referring to the subject, I have been enabled to elucidate certain questions of systematical value especially concerning European forms, as well as amplify our present knowledge of Varanus marathonensis WEITH. (=V. deserticola BY.). I wish here to express my sincerest gratitude to Mrss. Dr. TH. KORMOS, privat docent, and Dr. 0. SZOMBATHY, my colleague at the Zoological Department of the Hungarian National Museum, and especially to Dr. Baron FRANCIS NorcsA and Mr. F. SIEBENROCK, curator at the Natural History Museum in Vienna, as w

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ell as to Dr. W. WOLTERSrroRFF, curator at the Magdeburg Museum, for the kindness with which they furthered my studies. I am also much indebted to my wife, Baroness A. M. DE FEJÉRVÁRY née LÁNGH, for having greatly assisted me throughout my work, PART I

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. VARANIDAE. CHAPTER I. HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL SYNOPSIS. A) Varanidae of Europe. As regards the fossil Monitors of Europe we are obliged to admit to a somewhat confused state of things as well from the systematic as from the morphological point of view. The fossil remains