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Prionurus maculatus Douglas-Ogilby is a new Australian species 
obtained at Port Jackson. 
Dr. A. Günther (P. Z. S., 1887) describes. Latilus fronticinctus 
Among the fishes collected by Mr. C. Buckley, in Eastern Ecua- 
dor, and described by G. A. Boulenger (P. Z. S., 1887), are three 
new species of Pimelodus, one of Cheetostomus, and Nannoglanis 
fasciatus, a new genus and species of Siluride. Among the Chara- 
cinidæ, Parodon buckleyi, Pia ucina elongata, and Leptogoniates 
steindacheri, are new, while Sternarchus curvirostris is a new 
Sternopy gid. 
REPTILES AND Barracuta.—Mr. Garman catalogues (Bulletin 
Essex Inst., ix., p. 119) a collection of Reptiles and Batrachia col- 
lected by Dr. Edward Palmer in Texas and Mexico. In all fifty- 
SIX species, represented by several hundred specimens. The series 
of young forms and adults is in some cases very complete. The 
only new form described is Crotalus palmeri, from Monclova, Mex- 
ico, which the author regards as a variety of C. tigris, though he 
has not applied to it the trinomial system he advocated a few 
years ago. 
Fred A. Lucas discourses the ever-new question, “Do snakes 
charm?” in the third number of the Journal Trenton Nat. His. 
Soc. He concludes that the whole effect lies in the person, and that 
it is no property of the snake. 
The warts which appear at certain seasons upon many males of 
Rana temporaria, form the subject of a communication to the Zeit- 
schrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie, 1887, by O. Huber. 
Among the reptiles of Noronha are a species of Amphisbzna, 
a skink (Huprepes punctatus) and a gecko. Batrachians and 
fresh-water fish are absent. 
, According to G. B. Howes, the low rank assigned the Discoglos- 
side, by Cope, receives confirmation in the distribution of the azygos 
veins. The same veins led him to the view that their absence in 
Pelodytes pointed to the Pelobatoid rather than the Discoglossoid ` 
relationship of that genus. 
of he collection of eleven species of Batrachia, and thirty-two forms 
b Reptilia, brought from Greece, Asia Minor and Grecian Islands, 
i E. V. Oertzen, is utilized by Dr. Boettger, to throw light upon 
1e sources from which the Ægean Islands received their reptilian 
una. Three of the Batrachian forms are common to the islands and 
to the mainland on both shores of the Ægean, and may therefore be 
tiga to be autochthonous, while a fourth is wanting in Candi 
only. Seven reptiles are spread throughout, and are thus to be 
considered as belonging to the original stock of the islands. Ten 
Sy. Hot found in Candia, which has one species of African origin. 
e west two species have spread as far as Candia, and three 
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