REPTILIA. 
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with claws 2-3. No osseous nasal septum or bony eyelid. Belly protected 
by series of osseous plates, as well as the back. Perosuchus fuscus, sp. n., Cope, 
1. c.y from New Granada. 
Alligator lacordairei^ sp. n., Preudhomme de Borre, Bull. Ac. Belg. xxviii. 
1869, p. 109, with a plate, from British Honduras. 
Rhynchocephalia. 
Hatteria, Dr. Gray remarks that he described this genus first as Sphe- 
nodon (Zool. Misc. p. 14) and afterwards as Hatteria (ibid. p. 72). Ann. & 
Mag. Nat. Hist. 1869, iii. p. 167. [The name Sphenodus being used other- 
wise, the other name may have, perhaps, preference.] 
Lacertilia. 
Amphishcena antillensis (Rnhdt. & Ltk.)=D(pAa?MS fenestratus (Cope), ac- 
cording to Cope, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. 1869, p. 164. 
Varanus semiremeXj sp. n., Peters, Berlin. Monatsber. 1869, p. 65, from Cape 
York. 
Ameim analifera, sp. n.. Cope, 1. c. p. 168, island of St. Martins, West 
Indies. . 
Cnemidophorus, Prof. Peters describes as a new species Cn. mexicanusj 
Berl. Monatsber. 1869, p. 62, and remarks that Cn. deppeih^lon^B to this genus, 
and not to A7neiva, and perhaps = Cn. gracilis (Baird & Gir.) ; that Cn. tigt'is 
(Baird & Gir.)=CV*. sackii (Wiegm.) ; and that Cn. guUatus (Wiegm.) has 
the tongue dilated and bilobed at the base, and consequently does not belong 
to Ameiva. Ibid. p. 63. 
Cnemidophorus midtilineatuSy sp. n., Philippi, Wiegm. Arch. 1869, p. 41, 
from M.Qn^om.— Cne7nidophorus grandensis^ sp. n.. Cope, 1. c. p. 168, Rio 
Grande do Sul. 
Cnemidophof'us hgpetpthrus (Cope) and Cn. heterolepis (Tschudi) are re- 
ferred to a new genus, Vertiearia, by Mr. Cope, 1. c. 
\_Cnemidophorus~\ Holcosus hridgtsii, sp.n.. Cope, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 
1868, p. 306, New Granada. 
Dici'odon coelestis (D’Orb.) is not= Cnemidophorus lacertoides (D. & B.), 
Peters, Berlin. Monatsber. 1869, pp. 64 & 433 j it ia=sAcrantus viridiSf ibid, 
p. 720. 
Centropyx I'engeiii, sp. n., Peters, 1. c. p. 63, from Paraguay. The author 
adds remarks on the other species of this genus. 
Acanthodactylus dorsalis, sp. n., Peters, 1. c. p. 62, hab. — ? 
Eremias subo7’hitalis, sp. n., Peters, CEfvers. Vet. Ak. Forhandl. 1869, p. 668, 
from the Damara country. — The Eremias serripes described as a new species, 
ibid, p, 659, is, according to, a communication of the author, identical with 
Scapteira reticulata (Bocage). 
'Saurites is a new snbgenus of Eremias, established by Prof. Peters foi* 
Pqdarcis cuneirostris (Straiich), Berlin. Monatsber. 1869, p. 60. — Scapteira 
gratmnica is not from Egypt or Nubia, Peters, ibid. p. 01. — Eremias argus, 
sp. n., Peters, 1. c. p. 61, fig. 3, from Chefoo (China). — Eremias hrenneri, sp. n., 
Peters, 1. c. p. 432, from the Somali country. 
Zonurus tropidostcrnum is described as a new species from Madagascar by 
Mr. Cope, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. 1869, p. 169. 
Geirhosaurus validus (Sundev.) = 6r. 7'obustus (Ptrs.), and O. trivittatus 
