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pMumaj ProteuSy MenobrancJmSy CryptobranchuSy Sirenodon. On 
tliis occasion he mentions also some errors ' in the ^ Erpetologie 
Generale par Dumeril et Bihron ’ with regard to Cryptobranchus 
and Siredon harlanii. Arch. Neerland. Sc. Exact, et Nat. i. 
1866, pp. 305-^321 (translated in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, xviii. 
pp. 363-375). 
Amblystoma. The very important observations made in the 
Jardin des Plantes on the reproduction and metamori)hosis of 
the Axolotl are now collected in a memoir by M. Dumeril in 
Nouv. Arch. Mus. dHIist. Nat. ii. 1866, pp. 265-292. We 
refer for an abstract of its contents to Zool. Record, ii. p. 161. 
A plate showing the various stages of the metamorphosis of the 
species in Paris [A. lichenoides, Baird?) accompanies this 
memoir. 
Amhlystoma nehulosum (Hallow.). Notes by Mr. Cope, 1. c. p. 300. 
Triton. M. J. M. Pliilipeaux has demonstrated by experiments that the 
limbs are only regenerated when their basal portion at least is preserved ; if 
the fore limb with the scapula is excised, no reproduction takes place. 
Compt. Rend. 1866, Oct. 1, pp. 576-578 j abstract in Ann. & Mag. Nat. 
Hist. xix. p. 72. 
Triton (Itanodon) sihiricus, sp. n., Kessler, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1866, 
xxxix. p. 126, tab. 7, from Western Siberia; described as the type of a new 
siibgenus on account of the vomerine teeth, which are placed in two groups 
on two eminences of the bone. 
Cryptohranchus. Prof, van der Hoeven has examined the bones of the 
carpus and tareus, particularly with regard to the views of Gegenbaur on the 
typical composition of these bones. Arch. Nderland. Sc. Exact, et Nat. 1866, 
i. pp. 321-327. 
Proteus anyuincus feeds on Scenuris and Lnmhricus, Grube, 43. Jahresber. 
Schlea. Geseilsch. vaterl. Cultur fiir 1866 ; 1866, p. 63. 
