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REPTILIA. 
Iguanid®. 
Anolis. A list of the species in the British Museum collection, in 
which the synonymy of many of them is revised ; A. W. E. O’Shaugh- 
nessy, Ann. N. H. (4) xv. pp. 270-281. The following new species are 
described : — Anolis nummifer^ Demerara, turmaliSj Island of Grenada, 
p. 278 ; Costa Rica, Icntiginosus, Surinam, p. 279; gemmosuSy 
p. 280. 
Norops onca, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 280, Venezuela and Dominicia. 
Calotes grandisquamiSf sp. n., A. Gunther, 1. c. p. 226, pi. xxx. Oanoot 
Ghat. 
Agamidje. 
Arua, sub-g. n. of Gonyocephalus, allied to sub-g. 'Hypsilurus, Peters, 
for G. (A.) inornatuSf sp. n., Wokan ; G- Doria, Ann. Mus. Genov, vi. 
p. 345, pi. ii. c. 
Grammatophora caudicincta^ sp. n., A. Gunther, Zool. Erebus & Terror, 
ii. Reptiles, p. 19, Nicol Bay. 
StelUo stoliczkanus, sp. n., W. T. Blanford, J. A. S. B. (n.s.) xliv. 
pt. 2, p. 191, Eastern Turkestan. 
Phrynocephalus cqudivolvulus, Gunther, Anderson (= P. forsythi^ 
Anders.), and P. stoUczhai, Steind., is not the P. caudivolvulus of Pallas, 
which is probably a smooth species. The former is P. theobaldi of 
Blyth, and has not the habit of curling its tail. P. axillaris^ sp. u.. 
Eastern Turkestan. Id. tom. cit. p. 192. 
Trapelus ruhrigularis, sp. n., id. P. A. S. B. 1875, p. 233, Sind. 
OHAMiELEONTIDiE. 
Chamceleo. P. Bert finds the cause of the change of colour to be the 
shifting of variously coloured corpuscles determined by two sets of 
nerves, one forcing the corpuscles to the surface of the skin, the* other 
producing the contrary elfect. C. R. Ixxxi. pp. 938-941. 
OPHIDIA. 
TyPHLORIDiE. 
Typhlops h'aali, sp. n., G. Doria, Ann. Mus. Genov, vi. p. 347, pi. xii. 
Kei Islands. 
Typhlops {Ophthalmidion) decorosus, sp. n., R. Buchholz & W. Peters, 
MB. Ak. Berl. 1875, p. 197, Camaroons. 
Onychocephalus malaharicus, Bedd., = 0. acutus, Bedd. ; A. Gunther 
P. Z. S.1875, p. 27. 
Uropeltid^e. 
Silybura. Synopsis of all the species; S. melanog aster, p. 227 
pi. xxxi. fig. a, Anamallays aud Travaucore, S. liura, Malabar, p. 228^ 
pi. xxxi. fig. 5, S. arcticeps, p. 229, Tiniievelly ; id. 1. c. spp. uu. 
