aa. Anal opening longitudinal or round. 



c. Body covered with a heavy bony shield or car- 

 apace; no teeth; jaws covered with horny shields. 

 Order Testudinata - the Turtles. 



cc. Body covered with horny, epidermic plates; 

 jaws furnished with teeth; no bony carapace. 

 Order Loricata - the Crocodilians. 



The reptiles are very widely distributed, being 

 found in all temperate and tropical portions of the 

 world. The distribution of the Amphibians takes 

 in about the same territory, but the salamanders 

 reach their maximum development in temperate re- 

 gions. 



It is not within the province of this pamphlet to 

 give a general account of the reptiles and amphibi- 

 ans. Such accounts may be had from the works 

 cited in the bibliography appended. 



Herpetological Collections of the Cincinnati 

 Society of Natural History. 

 The main collection of this department was made 

 between the years 1870 and 1905. This collect- 

 ion was built up by Mr. Charles Dury and Professor 

 Joshua Lindahl. Professor R. E. Call and Professor 

 H. Garman also made valuable contributions. The 

 greater part of this collection was destroyed through 

 neglect, and most of the specimens of reptiles and 

 amphibians now in the collection have been present- 

 ed or collected by the Junior Society of Natural 

 Sciences. The collection now contains 3100 spec- 



