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

spite of their concerning recent forms, prove to be of some outstanding import to us by their bearing upon a more general and synthetic valuation of our problem. Also those of the publications regarding recent material will here be considered, which supply us with data affording a possibly complete systematical oversight of the Group under inspection. By sticking to such principle, I hope to eliminate, ab ovo, the chance of reproaching me with any arbitrariness that otherwise might somehow have prevailed in the consideration of the literature on recent forms. Before proceeding, however, to the enumeration of the works concerned that have left the press since 1918, I have to mention supplementally, two papers, previous in date of publication to my 1918 Monograph. The first of these is Mr. C. W. DE VIS'S „On Bones and Teeth of a large extinct Lizard", appeared in the Proc. Roy. Soc. Qd., II. Ft. 1, Brisbane, 1885 (p. 25—52, Pis. I

—III), which was most kindly handed over to me, as a gift, in 1923, by Mr. HEBER A. LONGMAN, Director of the Queensland Museum, Brisbane. The late Mr. DE VIS — one of the most well known Paleontologists of Australia in the last century — describes and figures in that memoir of his a couple of Lacertilian remains, viz. a left humerus, a left scapula and one tooth, which originate from Queensland, and have been „drawn from deposits abounding in Diprotodont and other remains which the writer has been accustomed to regard as, in Queensland, newer pliocene, not strictly pleistocene."

1 Mr. DE VIS identified these remains! with OWEN'S Notiosaurus dentatus, a large pleurodont lizard described by the veteran English anatomist on the base of „a fragment of a jaw with roots and teeth, submitted to him by the Department of Míines, New South Wales", and found in deposits that were stated to be Pleistocene. The second of the two papers referred to here above, is one by Mr. R. ETHERIDGE Jr. having appeared in 1917, in the Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, XXIX. N. S., Ft. II, p. 127—133, Pl. VIII, and bearing the title „Reptilian Notes: Megalania prisca, Owen, and Notiosaurus dentatus, Owen; Lacertilian dermal armour: Opalized remains from Lightning Ridge." In the first part of this paper the author describes, under the title the „Identity of Megalania (vel Varanus) prisca, Owen, with 1 Op. cit. p. 25—26.