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In the Proceedings Zoological Society, London is a notice of a new 

 snake, Azemiops Fece, found by Sig L. Fea in the Kakhien Hills — 

 Upper Burma. The discovery is important because this snake combines 

 the external characters of a lycodontoid colubrine with the poison-ap- 

 paratus of a viper. It has a loreal shield, which has hitherto been 

 regarded as indicating the innocuous nature of a snake. 



The Ann. and Mag. Natural History contains " Description of a 

 new earth snake of the genus Silybura, from the Bombay Presidency, 

 with remarks on better known Uropeltidxe." By G. E. Mason. 



Mr. Haly's report on the Snakes, Lizards and Frogs in the Colombo 

 Museum has appeared. 



The Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, contains an in- 

 teresting paper, by Messrs. Howes and Ridewood, on the limb-skeleton 

 of the tailless Batrachians, and a " note on the classification of the 

 Banidai," by Mr. Boulenger, who also describes two new Frogs from 

 India — Bana Leithii, from Matheran, and B. himalayana, from Darjiling 

 — in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 



An illustrated Catalogue of the Batrachians (Frogs, Toads and 

 Csecilians) of Southern India, already noticed, has been issued by Mr. 

 Thurston, Director of the Madras Museum. 



Fishes. In the Proceedings of the Zoological Society, London, Dr. F. 

 Day, in Part I. of " Observations on the Fishes of India," notes altera- 

 tions in nomenclature and distribution of species described in his 

 " Fishes of India," and gives some additions. 



The Journal of the Natural History Society of Bombay contains 

 a continuation of the very interesting papers, by an anonymous author, 

 s ' On the waters of Western India," which deal chiefly with notes on 

 the fish to be met with and fishing. 



Molluslcs. — Our former member and contributor, Col. Godwin- 

 Austen, has described some land mollusks, including new species, from 

 Burmah and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, in the Proceedings of 

 the Zoological Society of London. The same Journal contains papers 

 by Mr. G. R. Sowerby, on new species of Shells, chiefly from the 

 Eastern Seas, among which is Malletia angulata, from the Bay of Bengal. 

 The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, contains " Diagnoses 

 of new species of Pleurotomidce in the British Museum," by Mr. E. A. 

 Smith, with descriptions of Indian and other Asiatic species. Mr. 

 Kirkpatrick describes some Polyzoa from the Indian ocean. 



This journal also contains a translation of T. Brock's paper on the 

 so-called eyes of Tridacna, a huge bivalve mollusk which is amongst 

 the commonest inhabitants of our Indian coral-reefs, and the occurrence 

 of "green cells" in its vascular system. 



