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be confounded, the latter being a distinct species which is not found in South- 
eastern Australia. 
Pseudechis australis. Mr. Krefft speaks under this name of the brown 
variety of Ps. porph^riaais,” which is common on the Lower Murray. Vert, 
of the Lower Murray, pp. 32 and 47. We cannot but suppose that he has not 
had an opportunity of examining the true Ps. australis, which appears to be 
scarce and limited to the north-eastern part of Australia, and is decidedly 
specifically distinct from Ps. porphyriacus. 
Dcndraspis. Dr. Giintlier has described two new species, D. wehvitschii and 
1). intermedhis, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1805, xv. p. 97 ; the heads of these 
species, as well as those of D. anyusticeps and D. polylepis, are figured 
on pi. 3. 
CllOTALID^. 
Crotalus durissus described by Prince Max, Nov. Act. Leopold. Carol* 
xxxii. p. 05, taf. 7. figs. 1-3 (head). Crotalophorus teryemhms, ibid. p. 74. 
Crotalus intermedius is described as a new species by Troschel, in Muller, 
Wirbelth. Mex. p. 79 j from Mexico. 
Crotalus ravus is described as a new species by Cope, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. 
Philad. 1865, p. 191 j from the Tableland of Mexico. 
Caudisona polysticta is described as a new species by Cope, Proc. Ac. Nat. 
Sc. Philad. 1806, p. 191 j from the Tableland of Mexico. 
V IPEJIIDAS. 
Vipera. In a report on the Vipers of France written by M. Soubeiran, the 
geographical distribution, habits, and varieties of the three species found in 
France {V. berus, V. aspis, V. ammodytes) are described. Statistics of acci- 
dents caused by them are given, and the methods of treatment of wounded 
persons discussed. In the D^partement llaute-Marne, rewards for 67,045 
vipers, killed in the years 1856-1801, have been paid. This paper, published 
in France in 1803, is reprinted in Corr.-Blatt zool.-miner. Ver. Kegensb. 
1866, pp. 143-154. 
Vipera berus. [On its distribution in Bavaria, see Jackel, CoiT.-Blatt zool.- 
miner. Ver. Begensb. 1805, pp. 155-169. 
Vipera asjyis. A paper by Ed. de Betta, entitled ‘‘ Nota sopra un case di 
dicefalia-alloidica di una giovane Vipera raccolta nel Vicentino,” in Attidell’ 
Istit. Venet. x. dispens. 7, with a plate, is known to us from the title onl}’^, 
as this part of the journal mentioned has not yet reached this country. 
Pelias chet'sea. Dr. L. Heinzel, having been bitten by a viper, gives an ac- 
count of the symptoms as experienced by himself. Verh. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. 
Wien, 1805, pp. 493-498. 
Clotho nasicornis, fig. in Zoolog. Sketch, by Wolf and Sclater, vol. ii. 
BATRACHIA. 
BATEACHIA SALIENTIA. 
Mr. Cope has published the outlines of a oit BatracMa 
salieniia, based chicliy on ostcological characters, to which but 
