CHELONIA. 
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and on the egg-bands of Snakes, Batrachians, and Lepi- 
doptera.] 
Sanders, A. Notes on the myology of Platydactylus japonicus, 
P. Z. S. 1870, pp. 413-426. 
Stieda, L. Studien iiber das centrale Nervensystem der Wir- 
belthiere. Zeitschr. wiss. Zool. xxi. 1870, pp. 273-456, 
Taf. 17-20. 
Vautherin, — . Observations sur quelques points de Porgani- 
sation des Chelonicns. Ann. Sc. Nat. xiii. 1870, art. 7> 
pp. 21, with a plate. 
Chelonia. 
Gray, J. E. Supplement to the Catalogue of Shield Reptiles in 
the Collection of the British Museum. Part 1. Testudinata 
(Tortoises). With figures of the skulls of 36 genera. 
London : 1870, 4to, pp. 120. 
The ' Catalogue of Shield-Reptiles ^ (Tortoises), published in 
1855, contained diagnoses of 167 species, a number increased to 
233 in the present supplement. In publishing this supplement, 
the author^s object was not only to embody in it accounts of the 
species added to the catalogue within the last fifteen years, but 
also to collect the numerous observations made by him on 
craniological peculiarities which have led to the subdivision of 
many groups formerly regarded as generic. As the greater part of 
these observations have been published by the author previously, 
we may refer to our abstracts in Zool. Record, vi. pp. 109, 110, 
ii. pp. 147, 148, &c. Further additions, not previously published, 
will be mentioned below. 
Testudo. Dr. Gray distinguishes 11 species of the group Peltastes, which 
he characterizes, adding a part of the synonymy, P. Z. S. 1870, pp. 653-668. 
He separates specifically Testudo platynotus (Blyth) from T. elegans (p. 666), 
and figures the shell on pi. 33. — Testudo horsjieldn is the type of a distinct 
genus, Testudinella, p. 658. See also Suppl. Catal. pp. 8 et seqq. 
Testudo geometrica. On the great variation of the markings, Giebel, 
Zeitschr. ges. Ntrw. 1870, xxxv. p. 642. ■ 
Mr. Theobald states that Testudo phayrei (Blyth) is really a Testudo, and 
not a Manouria\ he believes that Testudo {Scapia) falconeri (Gray) is 
identical with T. phayrei, and asserts that the skull on which T. falconeri is 
founded belongs even to one of the type specimens of T, phayrei. P. Z. S. 
1870, p. 674. [The evidence taken from the skull contradicts Mr. Theobald’s 
assertion.] i 
Testudo chilensis, sp. n.. Gray, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 706, pi. 40. — Mr. Sclater 
has no doubt that this species is from La Plata, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 667.— It is 
the T. sulcata of D’Orbigny and Burmeister (not of Miller), Gray, Ann. & 
Mag. 1870, xi. p. 428. — Mr. Sclater proposes to change the name to T. argen^ 
tina, ibid. p. 470. 
