Jávorka Sándor - Soós Lajos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 29. (Budapest 1935)
Fejérváry, G. J.: Further contributions to a monograph of the Megalanidae and fossil Varanidae - with notes on recent Varanians
be that the rami cutanei (not the gingivales) — some or all of them — ought to be designated as rami cutanei nervi infraorbitalis, instead of rami cutanei rami alveol. sup. n. infraorb. The phlebological side of the problem is still more obscure than the neurological and arteriological one. We merely know of the existence of a vena maxillaris interna, 45 which branches off from a vena facialis — is there any v. facialis anterior and posterior in Lizards? — belonging to the system of the vena jugularis interna, and follows, somehow, the art. alveolaris superior in its course. 46 b) Vertebral Column: With respect to the vertebral column the recent researches did not add much to our respective knowledge of some years ago. Mr. ETHERIDGE draws, in his paper mentioned, attention to certain divergences existing, in his mind, between the conditions obtaining in the figure given by OWEN of the Darling Downs dorsal vertebra and the dorsal „from the ossiferous deposit at the Wellington Caves Reserve," 47 dealt with and figured by himself. Mr. ETHERIDGE states that the processus obliqui anteriores (or praezygapophyses) -,are relatively lower in position" in his specimen than it is to be observed on OWEN'S figure, they being situated „nearly on a level with the upper margin of the ball articular surface of the centrum", whilst the proc. obi. posteriores „appear to have a more solid base than those in the figure quoted." The transverse process, which is, on the right side of the fossil inspected by Mr. ETHERIDGE, ..practically complete", ..would seem to be constructed on somewhat more solid lines than in the type examples." On comparing the photographs accompanying Mr. ETHERIDGE'S text 48 with the figures by OWEN, also reproduced in my Monograph, 49 I must confess to be unable to make out the existence of the majority of these pretended differences. The Megalanian vertebra our Museum received from Mr. LONGMAN, and referred to above, agrees in every respect with OWEN'S Figs. 1 1 & 2 on PL 34 in the Phil. Trans.,Vol. 171, 1881, and I find nothing to be emended on them, whatever a detail be concerned: they will ever remain classical and reliable reproductions of the very conditions existing in this singular Reptilian form. I must remark, however, that the vertebra figured by Mr. ETHERIDGE cannot, in matter of fact, be well com45 Called by HOFFMANN „V. dentalis superior", in op. cit. p. 1006. 46 Cfr. 1. c. 47 Op. cit. p. 129. 48 Op. cit. Pl. VIII. Figs. 5 & 4. 49 Cfr. op. cit. pp. 456—459, Figs. 32—35.
