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figured. These fire, 17 Tortoises Ckelonia mydas ; Spliargin 

 coriacea ; Trionyx ferox ; Chelonura serpentlna ; Emys 

 puliistris, terrapin, picta, yuttata, insculpta, rubriventris, 

 MuJilenberyii, geographicd, pseudogeographlca ; Kinosternon 

 pensylvanicum ; Sternotherus geographicus, Cistudo Carolina, 

 Blandingii : only two Lizards Scinctis fasciatus and Tru- 

 pidolepis undulatus : 15 Snakes Coluber constrictor, allc- 

 ghaniensis, getulus, eximius, punctatus, v emails ; Tropldonotus 

 sipedon, tcenia, Icberis, Dekayi ; Leptophis saurita ; Calamaria 

 am&na ; Hetorodon platyrhinos ; Triyonocepltalus contortrix ; 

 Crotalus durissus : and 30 Batrachians_, among which 12 

 ecaudate Rana pipiens, horiconensis, fontinalis, palustris, 

 halccina, sylvatica ; Scaphlopus solitarius ; Bufo americanus ; 

 Hi/lodes Pickeringi, GryHus ; Hyla versicolor, siniirclhi ; and 

 18 caudate Salamandra symmetrica, subviolacea, erythro- 

 nota, picta, salmonea, fasciata, longicaudata, yranuhita, 

 bilineata, rubra, coccinea (n. sp. vid. infr.), glutinosa ; 

 Triton tiyrimis, mittepunctahis , niyer, prfrphyriticus ; Meno- 

 branchus lateralis ; Menopoma alleghaniensis. Only one 

 new species of the genus Salamandra is instituted. All the 

 above-named species are figured in 23 lithographic plates. 



The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the 

 command of Captain Fitzroy, during the years 1832-1836. 

 (Part v, Reptiles, by Thomas Bell. London, 1843-4.) The 

 Amphibia mentioned in this work are, with a few excep- 

 tions, South American ; many species are described r<s new ; 

 till are figured in 20 lithographic plates. Besides the 

 description, a Latin diagnosis of each species is given. 

 Those of the new species, as well as of the two Lacertan 

 and five Batrachian genera here instituted, are given below. 



Of John Ed. Ilolbrook's North American Herpetology, 

 or a Description of the Reptiles inhabiting the United 

 States, a new edition in 8vo has appeared at Philadelphia in 

 1843. I regret that it has not as yet reached my hands, 

 nor, so far as I know, has it reached Berlin. 



De Filippi gives in the Giornale delF Istituto Lombardo 

 cli Scienze, Tomo vi (Milauo 1843, p. 407), the description, 



