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merely shrivelled blastulse, it seems to me wonderful how any one 

 could entertain it after reading my account of their structure and for- 

 mation. The most conclusive answer I can offer Dr. H eider on this 

 point is that in glycerine -mounted slides these structures are not 

 shrunk in the very least but completely fill the cavities of the mother 

 sponge in which they occur. 



2. Diagnoses Reptilium Novorum ab ill. viris 0. Herz et Consule 

 Dr. 0. Fr. de Moellendorff in Sina meridionali repertorum. 



Auctore Dr. O. Boettger , Francofurti ad Moenum. 



eingeg. 10. Juli 1886. 

 Scincidae. 



Tropidophorus Sinicus n. sp. 



Differt a Trop. Berdmorei (Blyth) seriebus squamarum 29 nee 

 34 — 38 nee non internasalibus et postmentalibus divisis, a Trop. Co- 

 chinchinensi Dum. & Bibr. rostro acutiore, squamis dorsi non mucro- 

 natis, membris brevioribus, colore. — Series longitudinales squamarum 

 29. Carinae squamarum dorsi modicae; gularia et ventralia laevia; 

 praeanalia 2 magna. Rostrale transversum margine supero et infero 

 parallelis; internasalia 2, utrumque subtriangulare , antice acutatum. 

 Supralabialia 6, quartum oculo suppositum. Paria 4 postmentalium, 

 primum par minutum, duo paria anteriora media parte contigua. 

 Squamae temporales carinatae. 



Supra fuscus, regionibus frontali nec non collari taeniis transver- 

 sis 2 — 3 latis flavidis et ad latera dorsi maculis quinis magnis nigris 

 alboocellatis eleganter pictus. Latera capitis nigra, verticaliter albo- 

 taeniata; basis capitis gulaque alba nigro tessellata. 



Long, capitis usque ad apicem interparietalis 11,5, trunci 57,5, 

 caudae (mutilatae) 39mm, long, tota I08mm. Membr.anter. 16, poster. 

 23,5 mm longum. — Ratio long, membr. ant.: long, capitis -[- trunci 

 = 1 ;4,31 (in Tr. Cochinchinensi 1 : 3,44); long, membr. post.: long 

 capitis + trunci = 1 : 2,94 (in Tr. Cochinchinensi 1 ; 2,61). 



Hab. Prope vicum Ding-hu-shan ad flumen Si-kiang provinciae 

 Sinicae Guang-dung (1 spec). 



Oligodontidae. 

 Simotes Her zi n. sp. 

 Differt a Sim. trinotato Dum. & Bibr. praeoculari singulo nec binis, 

 supralabialibus septenis neque octonis, quorum tertium quartumque 



