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West Africa. 
W. Peters has given an account of a collection of Reptiles made by Dr. 
Buchholz, consisting of 2 Crocodiles, 5 Tortoises, 16 Lizards, 37 Snakes, 
some of which are new species, 28 Batrachians (new species and genus). 
This collection adds to the fauna of Upper Guinea a species of Platy- 
mantis, a genus hitherto confined to the Indian and Australian Archipe- 
lagos, and Dr. Peters remarks that a number of forms met with in Upper 
Guinea are so similar to those of East Africa, that the utmost care is 
necessary in discriminating them. MB. Ak. Berl. 1875, pp. 196-211. 
America. 
J. DE LA Espada describes Urotropis platurus, a new tailed Batrachian 
from Rio de la Plata. An. Soc. Esp. iv. p. 71. 
S. W. G arm AN gives a list of some Reptiles from the Western Coast 
of S. America. P. Bost. Soc. xviii. p. 204. • ' 
E. D. Cope (Note on the Herpetology of Florida, P. Ac. Philad. 1875, 
p. 10) states that 15 species of BatracTiia and Reptilia are found in Florida, 
not occurring in any other part of N. America, 3 of them being also Cuban. 
Asia. 
The Reptiles obtained by the late Dr. Stoliczka in the course of Sir 
D. Forsyth’s mission, from Kashmir, Laddk, Eastern Turkestan, and 
Wakhdn, are enumerated by W. T. Blanford, in anticipation of fuller 
accounts with figures of the new species ; they consist of Lizards and 
Snakes. J. A S. B. (n. s.) xliv. pt. 2, pp. 191-196. 
Dr. GOnther’s Second Report on Indian Reptiles, obtained by the 
British Museum, viz., the collections of Lieut.-Col. Beddome in Southern 
India, and of Dr. Jerdon in Northern India and the Himalayas 
(P. Z. S. 1875, pp. 224-234, pis. xxx.-xxxiv.), treats of the Lizards and 
Snakes ; his Third Report (pp. 567-577, pis. Ixiii.-lxvi.) is an account of 
the Batrachians. 
A new and revised edition of E. Nicuolson’s Handbook or Elemen- 
tary Treatise and Catalogue of the Snakes of India, with the useful 
addition of numerous illustrations from the author’s original drawings, 
has been issued. Madras ; 1874, 8vo, pp. 188, 20 pis. 
Three new Lizards found in Sind are described by Blanford. 
P. A. S. B. 1875, p. 232 (preliminary abstract). 
Australasia. 
An account of the Reptiles collected by 0. Beccari in Amboyna, and 
the Aru and Kei Islands, with descriptions of new species, is given by 
G. Doria in Ann. Mus. Genov, vi. pp. 325-357, pis. xi. & xii. 
The same author enumerates the Reptiles (39 species) collected by 
G. B. Ferrari, at Buitenzorg, in Java. Op. cit. vii. pp. 977-982. 
A complete list of the Saurians of Australia and New Zealand has 
been made by Dr. Gunther, and published as the concluding portion of 
the Herpetology of the Voyage of the Erebus and Terror, left un- 
finished by Dr. Gray in 1845. Dr. Gray subsequently issued the unpub- 
lished plates of the Lizards in 1867, as “Lizards of Australia and New 
Zealand,” with the exception of pis. v. & vi., of which the drawings had 
