FAUN^ — CROCODILIA. 
Rept. 5 
published in this part have not yet been referred to, in consequence of their 
being unaccompanied at the time by the text [see Zool. Rec. ix. p. 62]. 
They occupy pis. xi. & ■K.\i.{Phrynosoma^ subgenera Tapaya, Batrachosoma^ 
Phrynosoma, Viud Anota), and include Tapaya or6/cw^crre, varr.nn., cortezi^ 
pi. xi. fig. 2 A-G, dugesi, pi. xi. fig. 3 a-f, T. houcardi, sp. n., pi. xi. 
fig. 4 a-f, Phrynosoma hraconnieri, sp. n., pi. xii. fig. 7 A-G. The letter- 
press describing the subjects of these plates and other species of the 
group found in this region was issued in livr. 4e. pp. 217-242 [1874]. 
T. H. Streets, in “ Contributions to the Natural History of the 
Hawaiian and Fanning Islands and Lower California,” notices Reptiles 
collected during the U. S. North Pacific Expedition ; Bull. U. S. Nat. 
Mus. vii. pp. 35-42. 
F. Mueller, in ‘ Ueber einige selteue und neue Reptilien aus Guate- 
mala,’ describes a species of Lepidophyma and some Snakes as new. 
Verb. Ges. Bas. vi. pp. 390-411. ^ 
CHELONIA. 
Monks, Sarah. On the Columella and the Stapes in some North 
American Turtles. P. Am. Phil. Soc. xvii. pp. 335-337, pis. xvi. 
& xvii. 
Stewart, C. On the Lachrymal Gland of the Common Turtle. M. 
Micr. J. 1877, p. 241, pi. 
Observations on certain cutaneous excretory glands in Chinese fiuvia- 
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Art. 14, pp. 1-4, pi. xi. b. 
Vaillant, S. Description of peculiar anatomico-pathological appear- 
ances observed in a Platemys macquaria. Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) ii. 
p. 14. 
On worm-like appendages on the tongue of Chelydra temmincJci, Troost. 
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Stockwell, G. On some peculiarities in the Anatomy of Soft-shelled 
Turtles. Zool. 1878, pp. 401-407. 
Motta-Maia, — , & Renaut, J. Note sur la structure et la signifi- 
cation morphologique des glandes stomacales de la Cistude d’Europe. 
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Testudo horsjieldi, Gray. Note by P. L. Sclater, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 975. 
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CROCODILIA. 
Rabl-Ruckhard, — . Das Centralnervensystem des Alligators. Z. 
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Cordoba, ii. pp. 244-253, pi. 
