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of their life-history as he could gather from a study of them con- 
tinued during many years. 
Muller, J. W. Reisen in den Vereinigten Staaten. See p. 3. 
The List of Mexican Vertebr at a contains the names of 269 Rep- 
tiles (pp. 63-85), viz. 20 Chelonians, 77 Saurians, 127 Ophidians, 
and 45 Batrachians. Several new species are described by Prof. 
Troschel, who is evidently the author of tlie parts containing 
the cold-blooded vertebrates. Those numbers may be fairly re- 
garded as representing the true proportions of the Reptilian 
fauna of Mexico, according to our present knowledge, as the 
omission of several well-established Mexican species is counter- 
balanced by occasional repetitions of certain other species under 
different names (Liophis tricinctus and Elapochrus deppei) and 
by the enumeration of some nominal species (as in Oxyrhina, 
Stenorhinaj &c.). 
Unger and Kotschy. Die Insel Cypern. Wien, 1865, 8vo. 
According to Dr. Steindachner^s determinations, twenty-seven 
species of Reptiles are found on this island, viz. two Tortoises, 
fifteen Lizards, seven Ophidians, and three Batrachians (p. 572). 
C. Papers published in Journals. 
Betta, S. C. E. de. Sui serpenti italiani del genere Tropu 
donotus (Kuhl) osservazioni critiche. Atti Istit. Venet. Sc., 
Lett, ed Art. 1865, x. pp. 513-542. 
. Monpgi’afia degli Amfibi urodeli italiani e pin diffnsa- 
mente delle specie viventi nelle Provincie Venete. Venez. 
1865, 4to. (Memor. delk Istit. Venet. xi. part3.) 
We have not seen this paper *. 
Cope, E. D. Third contribution to the Herpetology of Tropical 
America. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phila^l. 1865, October 
(pp. 185-198). 
. Sketch of the primary groups of Batrachia salientia. 
Nat. Hist. Rev. 1865, January (pp. 97-120). 
Dumeril, a. Reproduction, dans la menagerie des Reptiles 
au Museum dTIistoire naturelle, des Axolotls, Batraciens 
urodMes h branchies persistantes, de Mexico, qui n^avaient 
encore jamais ete vus vivants en Europe. Compt. Rend. 
1865, lx. pp. 765-767 ; and Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1865, p. 142 ; 
translated in Nat. Hist. Rev. 1865, p. 454. A further com- 
munication on the same subject in Compt. Rend. 1865, Ixi. 
* All our endeavours to obtain a copy through booksellers were without 
success. 
