1883. | ee Zoology. 335 
Berlin, Professor Peters describes a new species of his Chiropteran 
genus Mormopterus, from Amboina, and gives a synopsis of the 
i ised in that S 
scribes in the Sztz. Gesellschaft. Natur. Freunde, four species of 
fishes and four of snakes, the latter including two of Typhlops 
from Africa, and two of Elaps from Ecuador; gives a review of 
the species of the families Typhlopidz and Stenostomide; a de- 
scription of a new Tachydromus from Amurland; a list of the 
seven Scincoids and Geckoes found by Herr Finsch in the Mar- 
shall, Carolina, and Gilbert groups (probably introduced from 
ships); anote upont developed during the breeding 
season on the male of Rana gigas, an East Indian (Sikkim) spe- 
cies; and a description of two new species of snakes of the genus 
Psammophis. Professor Peters also describes three Scincoids, 
one from New Guinea, and two from South Australia, a Callophis 
from the Phillipines, and several annelids from various quarters. 
He also notices an example of the remarkable genus Potamogale 
from the interior of Angola. The insectivorous nature of the ani- 
mal was fully proved by the contents of the stomach. In the same 
series of proceedings, Professor Von Martens describes several 
mollusks from the collection obtained by the corvette Gazelle; 
two Squillide, Lysiosquilla polydactyla from Chili, and Gonodac- 
tylus trachurus from the Mauritius, and some pulmonates from 
Central Asia; Herr Karsch describes several Coleoptera from the 
islands off the Guinea coast; Herr Hartmann gives some inter- 
esting particulars relative to the pectoral-muscles of certain fishes, 
especially those of a Periopthalmus from Madagascar, and Herr 
K. Brandt writes upon the mutual life of animals and alge, de- 
scribing certain genera and species of unicellular alge which in- 
habit protozoa, sponges, hydrozoa, actinozoa, and turbellaria, and 
are the source of the chlorophyll found in those animals. I 
the Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences is a de- 
scription of a new Tortricid, by C. H. Fernald, and notes upon the 
Spongillze, by H. Mills. Mr, Mills adds to Mr. Potts’ genus Car- 
terella, so well characterized by the tendril-like prolongations of 
its statoblasts, a new species, C. tubisperma—wW. A. Forbes, 
Prosector to the Zool. Society of London, has examined the struc- 
ture of the palate in several trogons, and finds that the maxillo- 
Palatines neither unite with -each other, nor with any median 
ossification, so that the Trogonide are not desmognathous, but 
schizognathus, As their nearest allies, the Bucconide, Galbulide, 
Sractidee, Podargus, etc., are desmognathous, Mr. Forbes believes 
nat the importance of the palate in classification has been over- 
€stimated. Careful observations conducted upon an incubating 
Python molurus in the Zodlogical Gardens of London prove that 
the temperature of the female rises, on an average, 3° F. above the 
tes temperature—an increase nearly identical with that which 
sults in cases of fever. . 
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