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FOSSIL VA RA Nil) AE AND ME OA LAN ID AE. 343 Ín J 908 under the synonym name of Varanus attmts. In 1865 JOURDAN described in the «Procès Verbaux de la Société d'Agriculture de Lyon» a «Reptile trés voisin du Monitor terrestre d'Egypte» from the Miocene of La Grive-Saint-Alban (Isère, France), which was later on also mentioned by 1)EP*ERET in his extensive account given in 1887 on the Miocene Vertebrates of the Rhône Valley (Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Lyon, T. I\ ême , p. 289). DEPÉRET refers to JOURDAN'S observation on the subject without being able to opine as to its accuracy, as no M o n i t o r remains were included in the material examined in DEPÉREÏ'S work. In 1873 KORNHUBER gives us a description («Über einen fossilen Saurier aus Lesina») 1 of «Hydrosaurus (= Varanus) Usinensis» from the Neocomian formation, which however GORJANOVIÓKRAMBERGER 2 ranges in a new genus established by him under the name of Pontosaurus, belonging to the family Dolichotauridae GOR.-KRAMB. emend. NOPCSA. In the same year (1873) FILHOL mentions in his «Vert. foss. trouvés dans les dépôts de phosphate de chaux de Quercy» 3 some lacertilian remains under the prasoccupied name of Palaeosaurus, provided later on 4 (1870) by the author with the denomination of Necrosaurus, which later on was again changed by him for that of Palaeovaranus, (see further on, under 1877,) being accompanied by illustrations and having furnished us a definite description on the matter. In 1876 P. GERVAIS 5 describes a fossil under the name of «Varanus (?) marganticeps>) which in 1888 is determined afterwards by LYDEKKER (Catal. of Foss. Rept. a. Amph. Brit. Mus. Part I, London) as Placosaurus. 6 In 1877 P. GERVAIS again draws our attention in the «Journal de Zoologie» 7 to a femur of «Varanus% which is figured in three different views under the name of «Varanus? (d'Ay )» (Pl. VI. Fig. 2—2 b), from the Eocene of Reims, and for which NOPCSA (op.itc.)in 1908 proposes the name of «Varanus Lemoinei». Likewise in 1877 FILHOL mentions an under jaw and an extremity from the phosphorites of 1 Abh. d. k. k. geol. Reichsamt., Wien, Bd. V, p. 75-90, Tat XX-XXl. 1 Aigia osaarus dalmaticus, eine neue Eidechse, Soc. histor. nat. Croat., Zagreb 1892. (From NOPCSA, op. cit.) 3 Bull. Soc. Philomath., Paris. (According to NOPCSA, op. cit. p. 43 et 34). 4 Sur les Rept. foss. des Phosph. du Quercy, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, 1876. 5 Zool. et Pal. Générales, Sér. 2, Paris, 1870, p. 60. (According to LYDEKKER,op. cit.) 8 This genus was described by GERVAIS : Zool, et Pal. Françaises, l ère éd., Paris, 1848 — 52, p. 260. (According to LYDEKKER op. cit.). — LYDEKKER, op. cit. p. 279 ranges also Placosaurus in the family Anguidae, whereas NOPCSA (op. cit.) together with the more recent literature (comp. BROILI, op. cit. p. 210) considers it already as a He lo de r ma t i d. NOPCSA (op. cit. p. 44) for priority's sake changes the specific name used by LYDEKKER of Piacos, margariticeps GERV. into P. rugosus GERV., it being, according to NOPCSA, most likely identical with the former. 7 Foss. éocè.ies des environs de Reims. Tome IV èmc «Faits divers», p. 280.
