REPTILIA. 
4 Itept. 
Sauvage, E. Essai sur la faune herpetologique de la Nouvelle-Guinee, 
suivi de la description de quelques especes nouvelles on pen connues. 
Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) ii. pp. 25-44. 
The greatest affinities of this fauna are with Australia, although it has 
certain relations with that of the Sunda Archipelago. The list now 
given consists of 1 Tortoise, 12 Geckos, 5 Varans, 6 Iguanas, 23 Seines, 
27 Snakes. Se\'eral species are redescribed. 
Australia, 
Maclbay, W. Notes on a Collection of Snakes from Port Darwin. P. 
Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. pp. 219-222. 
Five are described as new. 
Africa. 
L. Camerano has published obseiwations on the Anura of Morocco, 
describing one new species. Atti Acc. Tor. xiii. (also separately, 19 pp.). 
The reptiles collected by J. Hildebrandt in Eastern Africa are 
described by Peters in MB. Ak. Berl. 1878, pp. 202-209, pi. ii. %s. 1-9. 
C. B. Klunzinger describes 3 species of Chelonia and 12 of Sauria 
from the Red Sea. Z. Ges. Erdk. Berl. xiii. pp. 91-96. 
Reichenow mentions a few liepHlia from the Loango Coast Expedi- 
tion which had been omitted by Peters. SB.nat. Fr. 1878, p. 92. 
Madagascar^ 
O. Bottger describes two new reptiles, a Gecko and a Frog, from 
Madagascar. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1878-79, p. 1. 
A. Gunther notices extinct reptiles of Rodriguez, describing Testudo 
vosmeeri and Gecko newtoni, in Phil. Tr. clxviii. p. 452 [see Zool. Rec. 
xiv. Eept. p. 5]. A short note on the recent Reptilia, 1. c. p. 470. 
America. 
Jordan, D. Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern United States, 
2nd ed., revised and enlarged. Chicago : 8vo. 
The Reptilia occupy pp. 157-198. The characters of a new species of 
Rana are given, abridged from Mr. Rice’s notes. 
CouES, E., & Yarrow, H. Notes on the Natural History of Fort 
Macon, N. C, and vicinity. No. 4. P. Ac. Philad. 1878, pp. 24-28. 
The Reptiles are here noticed ; they are all of known species. 
. Notes on the Herpetology of Dakota and Montana. Bull, 
U. S. Geol, Surv. iv. pp. 259-291. 
A list, with descriptions and synonymy, and particulars of a semi- 
popular kind. 
Bocourt, F. Mission Scientifique au Mexique et dans I’Amerique 
Centrale ; iiie. partie. Etudes sur les Reptiles et les Batraciens. 
Paris : 1878, 5e- livr. fol. pp. 281-360, pis. xx.-xxi.c. 
The conclusion of the Tejidce, the Helodermidce, the genera Lepido- 
phyma^ Xenosaurus, Xantusia, and Cricosaura, and the GerrhonotidcB. 
Ire. livr. 1870. The Recorder finds that a portion of the figures of lizards 
