REPTILIA AND BATRACHIA. 
8 Eept, 
pi. xxii. fig. 2 ; D. millcptmctatus, O’S., p. 388, pi. xxii. a, fig. 5, 
fasciatits, Fitz., p. 389, pi. xxii. fig. 6 , monotropris, Kulil, p. 391, 
pi. xxii. fig. 6. Described and head figured by Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex. 
Rhodona fragilis, sp. n., Gunther, J. Mus. Godeffr. xii. [1876] p. 45, 
Peak Downs, Australia. 
AmphisevENidj:. 
Geocalamus, g. n., allied to Baikia ; Gunther, Ann. N. H. (5) vi. p. 234, 
for G. modestus, sp. n., id. ibid., Zanzibar. 
Monopeltis {Phractogonus) jugularls, sp. n., Peters, MB. Ak. Berl. 1880, 
p. 219, fig. 1, W. Africa. 
OPHIDIA. 
Emery, C. Intorno alle glandole del capo di alcuni Serpenti proteroglifi. 
Ann. Mus. Genov, xv. pp. 546-558, with woodcuts. 
On the venomous gland of Snakes, and especially Acanthophis australis, 
Pelamis bicolor, and Platyurus fasciatus, 
A. T. de Rochebruno distinguishes and characterizes in the rachisof the 
Ophidia the several regions of other Vertebrata. 0. R. xoi. pp. 551-553. 
On copulation in the Ophidia ; Lataste, Bull. Ass. Fr. viii. [1879], 
pp. 765 & 766. 
Typhlopidji:. 
Typhlops depressus, sp. n., Peters, MB. Ak. Berl. 1880, p. 220, fig. 3, 
Duke of York Island. 
Typhlops (Ophthalmidion) mucronatus,sp. n., Bottger, Zool. Anz. 1880, 
p. 279, Madagascar. 
Onychocephalus simoni, Bottger, figured by Bottger, Ber. Senck. Ges. 
1879-80, pi. iii. fig. 1. 
Leptocalamus trilineatus, sp. n., Peters, MB. Ak. Berl. 1880, p. 221, 
fig. 2, Brazil. 
UROPELTIDiE. 
Plectrurus aureus, sp. n., Beddome, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 182, Wynaad. 
BoiDiE. 
Morelia variegata, Gray, described and figured by McCoy, Prodr. Zool. 
Viet., Dec. ii. pi. xiii. [1878]. 
Python breitensteini, sp. n., Steindachuer, SB. Ak. Wien, Ixxxii. Abth. 1, 
p. 267, Borneo. 
Piesigaster, g. n. Allied to Chilabothrus, D. & B., but differing from 
it by the prse-froutals, which are divided into small scales, by the contact 
of not more than two supero-labials with the eye, and by the two large 
