GLIRES MARSUPIALIA. 
Mamm. 23 
Dasyproctid^. 
Dasyprocta isthmica, sp. n., E. R. Alston, tom, cit. p. 347, Central 
America. The other species are reviewed and characterized, and D. 
azar(B, Licht., is figured, pi. xxix. 
Caviidje. 
Dolichotis salinicola. Further notes on this species [cf. Zool. Rec. xii. 
p. 22] ; H. Burmeister, tom. cit. pp. 4G1 & 4G2. 
Hydrochmrus capyhara. On the form of its coecum ; A. H. Carrod, 
torn' cit. pp. 20-23. 
Lagomyid^. 
Lagomys rufescens figured ; W. T. Blanford, Eastern Persia, ii. pi. vi. 
Lbporid.®. 
J. A. Allen reviews the American species ; P. Bost. Soc. xvii. (1875) 
pp. 430-436. y 
Lepus craspedotus figured ; W. T. Blanford, 1. c. p. viii. 
EDENTATA. 
W. Turner describes the placentation of Orycteropsis capensis. The 
placenta is broadly zonular, but it could not be determined from the 
specimens examined whether it is deciduate or not. The Edentata are 
now known to show all the group-forms of placentation except the coty- 
ledonary, and present both deciduate and non-deciduate forms [cf. Zool. 
Rec. xi. p. 19]. J. Anat. Phys. x. pp. 693-706. 
MACROTHERIIDiE. 
Pernatherium, g. n. (foss.), P. Gervais, J. Zool. v. pp. 424-432, pi. xviii. 
differing from Ancylotherium and Macrotherium in the form of its 
calcaneum. Type, P. rugosum^ sp. n.. Eocene of Paris. 
DIDELPHIA. 
MARSUPIALIA. 
0. K. Hoffman describes the anatomy of the retina in this order. 
Niederl. Arch. Zool. iii. pp. 195-199, pi. xii. 
R. Owen’s Memoirs “On the Fossil Mammals of Australia,” part x. 
already recorded [cf. Zool. Rec. xii. p. 23], is published in full ; Phil. 
Tr. clxvi. pp. 197-226, pis. xix.-xxxi. 
W. Burner describes the minute anatomy of a non-gravid uterus of 
Macropus giganteus. J. Anat. Phys. x. pp. 513-515. 
