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REPTILIA. 
Atractaspis corpulentus (Hallow.) described by Gunther, A. & M. N. H 
1872, ix. p. 36, pi. 3. fig. F. — A. micropholis^ sp. n., Gunther, 1. c. fig. E, Africa. 
Mr. Cope gives a synopsis of the Crotaline speeies with undi- 
vided anal shields and no rattle, Proe. Ac. N. Se. Philad. 1871, 
pp. 205-209. He divides them, beside Ancistrodon, into the 
following groups : — . 
a. Body compressed j tail prehensile. 
a. A series of horn-like scales above the eye Teleuraspis. 
/3. No horns Bothriechis. 
h. Body cylindric ; tail straight. 
a. Nasal plate one Porthidiimi, g. n. 
/3. Nasal plates two Bothriopsis. 
The species are enumerated with their synonyms. 
Crotalus. Prof. Shaler, in an article headed The Battlesnake and Natural 
Selection,” observes that the sound of the Rattlesnake is the same as that of 
Cicada ramosa, and draws the inference that Cicada-eating birds are attracted 
by it. Amer. Natur. 1872, pp. 32-37. — On the same subject, J. G. Hender- 
son, ibid. pp. 260-263, and F. W. Putnam, ibid. p. 693. 
D'imei'esurus. l)r. Fayrer figures in his ^ Thanatophidia ’ : — T. carinatus, 
pi. 13 j T. anarnallcnsis and T. erythrurm^ pi. 14 j T. monticola and 2\ under- 
aonii, pi. 15 ; T. atriyatus, pi. 16. 
AtropO])his (new name for Atropos) borneensis, sp. n., Peters, Ann. Mus. 
Genov, iii. p. 41, Sarawak. 
Daboia russelU figured in Fayrer’s ‘Thanatophidia,’ pi. 11. 
Echis carinata figured in Fayrer’s ‘Thanatophidia,’ pi. 12. 
PSEUDOPHIDIA, 
Ccecilia malabarica, sp. n., Beddome, Mad. M. M. J. 1870. 
Epicrium carnoaum^ sp. n., Beddome, 1. c., Wynaad. 
BATRACHIA. 
Batrachia salientia. 
Mons. S. JouRDAiN draws attention to the distinction of species 
with small and large larvae. Their development is essentially 
different; for while the small larvae change uninterruptedly 
into the perfect animal, the large ones cease to grow and to feed 
at a certain period, utilizing for their further development a stock 
of nutritive matter deposited in their tissues. Compt. Rend. 
1872, May, pp. 1417-1418. 
Prof. Peters has examined the typical specimens collected 
and described by Spix, and revised their nomenclature. Spix 
had made out that he had collected 53 species, of which not less 
than 51 were described by him as new. The result of Peterses 
examination is, that the species collected amount in reality to 
