4 liept. REPTILIA AND BATRACHIA. 
O’SiiAUGiiNESSY, A. W. E. Notes on some species of Anolis from 
Ecuador, and description of a now species. P. Z. S. 1880, pp. 
491-493. 
REPTILIA, 
CHELONIA. 
Bronn, H. G. Klassen und Ordnungen des Thierreidas. Band vi. Abtli. 
iii. pp. 177-400, pis. xxiv.-xlvili. Reptilia, by C. K. Hoffmann. 
This part concludes the general and contains the systematic arrange- 
ment and geographical distribution of the Chelonia^ 
Vaillant, L. Sur la disposition des vertebres cervical es chez les 
Chdoniens. 0. R. xci. pp. 795-798. 
A long and important memoir on the same subject in Ann, Sc. Nat. x. 
art 7, 106 pp. pis. 25-31. Vaillant describes and figures the cervical verb - 
bras of a certain number of species belonging to the principal genera, and 
points out great differences in their mode of articulation. Although so 
much has been written on the osteology of the Chelonia, this subject had not 
before been treated in a general manner. The author proposes to divide 
the Chelonia into three families: 1, Chelonida, with two tribes, Sphar- 
gidina and Chelodina \ 2, Trionychida ; 3, Testudinidaf with, two tribes, 
Chelydina and Chersemydina, the latter containing two sections, Chelydrece 
and Testudinece. 
HeudE, P. M. M^moire sur les Trionyx, in “ M^moires concernant 
rhistoire naturelle de I’Empire Chinois,” cahier. Paris : 1880, 
4to, pp. 1-38, pis. i.-ix. 
The Rev. P. M. Heude, a Jesuit missionary, has undertaken the study 
of the Trionychida} of China. From this study, based on hundreds of 
specimens from various localities, the author comes to the conclusion that 
the Chinese species of this family are as numerous as those actually 
known of the Order Chelonia, recent and fossil. Of course, with the 
small number of Chinese specimens of the genus Trionyx in European 
Museums, it is impossible to ascertain the degree of exaggeration of this 
statement ; the Recorder thinks it, however, useful to observe that the 
genera, and most of the species, are established on very trifling characters, 
some of which will probably prove to be monstrous. 
The following are the genera and species described in this paper * 
Yuen, g. n., p. 18, for F. leprosus, p. 20, maculatus, p. 22, pis. i. & i. 
elegans, viridis, and pallens, p. 23, spp. nn. 
Psilognathus, g. n., for P. Icevis, sp. n., p. 24, pi. ii. 
Temnognathus, g. n., p. 25, for T. mordax, sp, n., p. 26, pi. iii. 
Gomphopelta, g. n., for G. officince, sp. n., p. 27, pi. iv. 
Ccelognathus, g. n., for C. novem~co status, sp. n., p. 29, pi. v. 
Tortisternum, g. n., for T. novem-costataslj-tumly sp. n., p. 31, pi. vi. 
Ceramopelta, g. n., for C. latirostris, sp. n., p. 33, pi. vii. 
Coptopelta, g. n., p. 34, for C. septem-costata, sp. n., p. 35, pi. viii. 
Cinctisternum, g. n., p. 36, for C. hicinctum, sp. n., p. 37, pi. ix. 
