14^ ZOOLOGICAI^ 1[<ITEIIATURE. 
BoiDiM, 
H(mcilQchih{s $trjatua. on Jiterature bjy Steindaebner^ Nor 
vara; Kept. p. 67. 
J)im&nnia, Pr, Steipdiiolmor unitea [erroneously] -D, uHvaom (Gray) with 
I), ^anmophisy Novara, Pept, p. 80, [The latter haa quite a different phy= 
siognomy, is miicli more elongate, comes from a different locality, &o.] lie 
describes also B. aup-^'c^Uom (Fiseh.) fts CacopMs yimthavi (sp. n.), fhid. 
p. 91. 
Pseudonaja nuchalis. Prof. M^Coy doubts the distinctness of this snake 
from Diemennia superciliaris, Ann, ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. xx. p. 182. [We doubt 
^hepier hp h(\^ over soen it^ it occui's iu Novth-woat Ausitralia* It appeftrs to 
bq yery rai’Oi the British Mu^eunr alone possessing some examples,] 
Pseudechis scuteUatus^ sp. n., Peters, Monatsbev, Ahi Wi39,, B.erl, 1867| p. 710^ 
fvpip PocUhawptout 
Hoplocephcdus mamlaius^ sp. n., Steindachner, Novara, Kept. p. 81, tah* 3, 
figs. 3-5, '^fr’om New South Wales [probably Queensland ]. — Hopdocephalus 
fusciis, sp. n. ?, Steindachner, 1. c. p. 82, tab. 3. figs. 11, 12, New Holland. 
Scales in 15 series; ventrals 177, 
Naja nif/ricollis (Bnhv^t.) ^ A^, mQmmhica (Ptra.), Peters, I p. 237, 
Mraotaspid hibronii On variations in the squamation see Booage, Jorn. 
So. math. phya. e nat. Pishoa, iii, p. 227. 
CallophU. ceramms is described as a new species by Beddome, M^draa 
Quart. Journ. Med. Sc. 1867, p. 16, pi. 2. fig, 6, from the Malabar Forests, 
Crotalid^. 
Ti'opidolcetmis homhroni has sometimes the scales in 21 series. Peters, Mo- 
natsber. Ak. Wiss. Berl. 1867, p. 29. 
Trimeremrus Uihialisy sp. n., Steindachner, Novara, Itept, p. 86, taf, 3. figs. 
1 & 2, from the Nieobar Islands. 
ViPBRIDiE. 
Vipera aspis. F. de Betta despribes end figures a case of a double-headed 
paonsp’Psity, Att. 1st. Vepet, Sc, pett. & Art, x, pp, 916-926, 
PSEUDOPHIPIA. 
Siphonops kaupii (Berthold) is described by Hr. Keforstein, and compared 
with 8. indistmctus (Reinh. & Liitk.). Getting. Nachricht. 1867, p. 361. — 
Some notes on indistinetus hy Hr. Hensel, Wicgm. Arch. 1867, p. 162. 
BATRACHIA SALIENTIA. 
Mr. E. D. Cope has continued his researclies into the anato- 
mical, and especially the osteological structure of the tRilles^ Ba- 
trachians, which we have previously mentioned in ^ Zool, Record,^ 
ii. p. 156. He has paicj particular attention to the trihe which 
he has named Arcifera, and published the results of his investi- 
gations in Journ. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 2nd ser. v. pp. 67-97. 
The chief osteological characters on which the author has based 
