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REPTILIA, 
proposed by him, and describing* as new T, leithiif T. sewaree^ T. helhij and* 
T, gataghol. 
Trionyx gangeticua (young) figured in Sowerby & Lear, Tortoises &c. 
Trionyx. Dr. Anderson states that the Trwnyx javanicus of recent authors 
on Indian Ileptiles (not of Schweigger) is the T. gangeticus of Cuvier, and 
that for the T. gangeticus of those authors the name of T. hurum (B. H.) 
ought to bo retained. A. & M. N. II. 1872, ix. pp, 382 & 383. — Remarks on 
this paper by Dr. Gray, ibid. pp. 473-476. — Reply by Dr. Anderson, ibid. x. 
pp. 210-222. 
Chelonia midas and C. imbricata figured in Sowerby & Lear, Tor- 
oises &c. 
Chelonia agassizii is described as a new species by Dum^ril & Bocourt, Miss. 
Sc. Mex. p. 26, pi. 6, Pacific coast of Central America. 
Dermatochelys coriaeea. Osteology described by P. Gervais, Nouv. Arch. 
Mus. viii. pp, 199-228, pis. 5-9. 
CROCODILIA, 
Gray, J. E. Catalogue of Shield Reptiles in the collection of 
the British Museum. — Part 2. Emydosaurians, Rhyncho- 
cephalia, and Amphisbienians. London : 1872. 4to, pp. 41. 
Contains descriptions and synonymy of all the species known. 
The groundwork of this catalogue is contained in the two me- 
moirs of which we have given a detailed report in Zool. Rec. ii. 
p. 149, and iv. p. 132, but it is supplemented by more recent 
additions to the literature. 
Crocodilus, MM. Dum^ril & Bocourt give a synopsis of the species in- 
habiting tropical America, Miss. Sc. Mex. p. 30, and figure the skulls on 
pis. 8 & 9. Crocodilus pacificuSf sp. n., p. 31, pi. 9. fig. 6, from Guatemala. 
Crocodilus niloticus found in Sicily. Doderlein, Ann. Soc. Nat. Modena, vi. 
1872, p. 23.— On its occurrence in Palestine, Dr. Mottenheimer, in Zool. Gart. 
1872, pp. 237 & 238. 
Crocodilus madagascariensis is described as a new species by Grandidier, 
Ann. Sc. Nat. xv. 1872. 
Alligator Indus. On the ductus caroticus, E. Brandt, Bull. Ac. Sc. St. 
P^tersb. xvii. 1872, pp. 307-309, with woodcut. 
LACERTTLIA. 
Amphisb^enid^. 
Dr. Graves ^ Catalogue of Ampliisbsenians ’ has been noticed 
above [^^Crocodilia^^]. 
Monitoridas. 
Ilydrosaurns nuchalis, sp. n., from Negros, and H. cummingi (Martin), from 
Mindanao, described and figured by Giiuther, P. Z. S. 1872, Feb., p. 145, 
pis. 7 & 8. — Hydrosaurus togianus, sp. n., Peters, Berl. MB. 1872, July, 
p. 682, Togian Isl. 
