Cope.] J4 [ 0ct> 2 , 



volksthiimlicher Erzahlungskunst. Nicht fiinf Verse konnte man daraus 

 ausscheiden, ohne das Ganze zu schadigen. Solche Schopfungen eines 

 urwiichsigen Volksgeistes gehoren, ebenso wie die Homerischen Gesiinge 

 und das Nibelungenlied, der Weltliteratur an. 



Ausser den 60,000 Versen meiner Sainrnlung erlangte die Gesell- 

 schaft von Herrn Prof. Miroslav Alacevic in Spalato eine ungedruckte 

 Sammlung dalrnatinischer epischer Volkslieder. Diese Sammlung ziihlt 

 iiber 30,000 Verse. Ferner sind uns noch von anderen Correspondenten 

 von alien Seiten des slavischen Sudens iiber 50,000 Verse, nebst zahlrei- 

 chen anderen Beitriigen zur Volkskunde eingescbickt worden, so dass wir 

 mit gerechtem Stolze behaupten diirfen, dass durcb die Verarbeitung und 

 Veroffentlichung dieses gewaltigen Stofies das Siidslaventhum in ethno- 

 graphischer Hinsicht endlich aucb eine der neuen Wissenschaft wiirdige 

 Beleuchtung erfahren wird. Das kann dann, als das endgiltige Ergeb- 

 niss meiner Reise gelten. 



Catalogue of the Species of Batrachians and Reptiles contained in a collection 

 made at Pebas, Upper Amazon, by John Hauxwell. By E. D. Cope. 



{Read before the American Philosophical Society, October 2, 1SS5. ) 



The contents of a previous collection made at Pebas by Mr. Hauxwell 

 are enumerated in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 

 for 1870, page 553. It included ten species of batrachians, four of lizards, 

 and nine of snakes. The present collection embraces six species of ba- 

 trachians, eleven of lizards, and fifteen species of snakes. The total num- 

 ber of species obtained is, fifteen batrachians, fourteen lizards, and 

 twenty-three species of. snakes. A considerable collection was made in 

 the same region by the late Professor Orton, and the species are enumer- 

 ated and described in the Journal of the Philadelphia Acadamy of 1875, 

 p. 159. A previous collection, made by Professor Orton, is described in 

 the Proceedings of the Philadelphia Academy for 1868, and one from 

 Western and Central Peru is reported on in the Proceedings of the 

 American Philosophical Society for 1877. These collections form the 

 basis of a general review of the herpetology of Peru, which the writer 

 hopes to publish with illustrations at no distant day.* 



* Some species were obtained in the same region byProf. Steere of Ann Arbor, 

 Mich., and my thanks are due to this gentleman for the opportunity of exam- 

 ining them. From near Tarapota come the following species: Dendrobates 

 triviltatus Spix; Leptodactylus pacilochilus Cope; Neusticurus ecplcopus Cope; 

 Polychrus marmoratus L. From Tombez : Bufo hcematiticus Cope ; Hyla phccota 

 Cope. 



From the MamorC River in Eastern Bolivia, Dr. E. R. Heath presented to the 

 museum of Ann Arbor the following species: 1. Amphisbama alba L.; 2. Pseu- 

 doSryx mimeticus sp. nov. The genus Pseudoeryx Tsch., 1826, is the Hydrops Wag- 

 ler, 1830, and Dimadcs Gray, 1843. It includes two banded species, the present 



