4 lle^l. 
REPTILU. 
Hungary. 
Notices of the Batrachia will be found in Term, fiizetek, 1878 ; and of 
the Ojjhidia, op. cit. 1879. 
Cyprus. 
A. Gunther gives a list of Reptiles from Cyprus; P. Z. S. 1879, 
p. 74. 
Italy. 
E. DE Betta has contributed some notes on the herpetology of Italy, 
in which eight species are treated of; Atti 1st. Venet. (5) iv. pp. 963-981. 
Also a supplementary series of notes ; id. op. cit. (5) v. 41 pp. 
Spain and Portugal. 
E. Bosca gives an account of a herpetological excursion made in Spain, 
and enumerates all the Reptiles collected ; An. Soc. Esp. viii. pp. 463-484. 
A memoir professing to be a monograph of the Iteptilia of Southern 
Portugal is published by 0. Bottger, in Z. ges. Naturw. (2) iv. 
pp. 497-634. One new species of Triton is added. The number of 
Reptiles belonging to the fauna of Portugal, adding together those 
enumerated by Bosca and Bottger, is given as 39, viz., 22 lleptiUa and 
17 Batrachia. 
Balearic Islands. 
J. V. Bedriaga, pursuing bis plan of devoting some time every year 
to studying the herpetological fauna of islands, has investigated that of 
the Balearic group. The results obtained, and the further considerations 
of the author relative to the interesting subject of the insular distribu- 
tion of Lizards, are given in a very extensive memoir in Arch. f. Nat. xlv. 
pp. 243-339, pis. xvii. & xix. The various Lizards to which he has 
devoted lengthened descriptions in this paper, will be referred to below. 
Madeira and Canary Islands, 
In the seventh section of the paper referred to above, pp. 325-332, 
Bedriaga treats of the Lizard fauna of Madeira and the Canary 
Islands. 
Western Africa. 
Notes on Reptiles belonging to the Portuguese possessions in Western 
Africa ; J. V. Barboza du Bocage, J. Sc. lAsb. 1879, pp. 86-96. 
Some new Reptiles and Batrachiaus from Angola; id. 1. c. pp. 97-99. 
Comoro Islands. 
A. Gunther notices the Reptiles collected by Bewsher in Johanna, 
Comoro Islands. New to its fauna are : an Eremias, of which there is 
only one example, too young to be specifically determined ; an unde- 
scribed Phyllodactyline Gecko, Parcedura sancti-j ohannis ; Typhlops 
pammeces (Gthr.), hitherto known from Southern India only ; and an 
undescribed Lycodont snake, Lycodryas sancti-j ohannis. Ann. N. II. (5) 
iii. pp. 217-2lk 
