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many new species, are described by Cope ; P. Ac. Philad. 1874, pp. 64-72. 
A collection of Batrachians made by Professor Orton on the Upper 
Amazon, also containing several new species, described; id. tom. cit. 
pp. 120-132. 
CHELONIA. 
Testudo pusillay Shaw, plentiful in Morocco, re-described : Bottger, 
Abh. senck. Ges. ix. p. 123. 
Emys grayiy jGthr. {nec Str., nec Dum. & B.), = caspica^ Gm., sec 
Blanford, and is referred to Clemmys ; P. L. Sclater, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 761. 
Var. leprosa, Schweigg, added to the fauna of Morocco, and re-described : 
Bottger, 1. G. p. 126. 
Clemmys {Heteroclemmys) gihheray sub-g. & sp. nn. : Peters, MB. Ak. 
Bell. 1874, p. 622, pi. ii. Borneo. 
(Damonia) Clemmys unicolor y Gray, is from Ningpo, not Shanghai ; 
P. L. Sclater, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 617, note ; figured, tom. cit. pi. xliv. 
Platemys novce-guinecBy sp. n., Meyer, MB. Ak. Berl. 1874, p. 128, New 
Guinea. 
Trionyx. Theobald gives his views as to the proper identification of 
the Indian and Burmese species, commenting on or correcting remarks by 
Dr. Gray, and describing T. huchananiy sp. n. {T. hurumy auctt. in pt.). 
P. A. S. B. 1874, pp. 75-86, pis. iii. & iv. 
CROCODILIA. 
P/w7as, sub-g. n., for Crocodilus johnstoniy Krefft ; noticed and figured: 
J. E. Gray, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 177, pi. xxvii. 
Crocodilus madagascarienaiSy sp. n., id. tom. cit. p. 145, pi. xxiii. 
Madagascar. 
RHYNCHOOEPHALIA. 
Peters, W. Ueber die Gehorknochelchen von Hatteria punctata und 
ihr verhaltniss zu dem ersten Zungenbeinbogen. MB. Ak. Berl. 
1874, pp. 40-46. 
On the auditory ossicles of Hatteria and their relation to the first 
palatal arch. 
SAURIA. 
Varanidji: 
J. Stack notices disappearance of larger kinds of lizards from North 
Canterbury. Tr. N. Z. Inst. vii. p. 295. 
Monitor doreanuSy sp. n., Meyer, MB. Ak. Berl. 1874, p. 130, New 
Guinea, and M. hordensis, sp. n. id. 1. c. p. 131, Mysore. 
