18 Itept. 
REPTILIA. 
BATRACIirA (jRADIKNTIA. 
Exosretus, g. n. Maxillarum margines densissimis subtilissimisque den- 
ticulis armati. Lingua cordata, medio et apice anteriore adhaerens. 
Pedum anteriorum digiti quatuor, posteriorum sex. Type, E. cauca- 
sicus, sp. n., high regions of the Caucasus. Waga, R. Z. (3) iv. p. 326, 
pi. xiii. 
Salamandra inaculata. Note on the land Salamander ; J. B. Schnctz- 
ler. Bull. Soc. Vaud. (2) xiv. pp. 440-442. 
Salamandra (?) ventralis, sp. n., L. Provancher, Nat. Canad. vii. (1875) 
p. 251, Yamaska. 
Desmodactylus pinchoni^ sp. n., Armand David, J. A. S. North China 
Branch, vii. p. 226, Setchuan. 
Triton. A. Van Hasselt, “ Bijdrage tot de Natuurlijke Geschiedenis 
des Water-Salamanders.” Yersl. Ak. Amst. (2) x. pp. 209-219. 
Triton helveticus is crested, but the crest varies according to locality. 
F. Briiggemann, Arch. f. Nat. (2) 1876, pp. 19-27. 
Triton {Cynops) orientalis, sp. n., Armand David, 1. c. p. 226, Tchi- 
kiang. 
J. Erber contributes observations on Siren lacertina in captivity ; 
Verb. z.-b. Wien, xxvi. (1877), p. 114.. 
Sieboldia davidiana, sp. n., A. David, 1. c., Setchuan. 
Axolotl. On the metamorphosis into Amhly stoma, Marie von 
Chauvin, Z. wiss. Zool. xxvii. pp. 522-535 ; supplement on the same 
subject by Siebold, tom. cit. pp. 536-540. 
On the reproduction of Amhly stoma, observed in the Paris Mena- 
gerie ; Blanchard, CR. Ixxxii. p. 716. 
On the reproduction of Proteus angitineus ; F. E. Schulze, Z. wiss. 
Zool. xxvi. pp. 350-354, pi. xxii. 
