SAURIA. Bcpt. 9 
Zootoca vwipara in Piedmont described ; Lessona, Atti Acc. Tor. xvi. 
pp. 1135-1140. 
Tropidosaura algira^ L., described by J. v. Bedriaga, Arch. f. Nat. xlv. 
p. 332. Remarks by Collin de Plancy, Bull. Soc. Zool. iii. [1878] pp. 
309-311. 
Acanthodactylus. G. Boulenger has published a monograph on the 
species of this genus which inhabit the countries bordering upon the 
Mediterranean. He has found Schreiber’s account of them in the 
“ Erpetologia Europsea ” tiusatisfactory, and apparently based upon an 
iusulliciont series of examples. Having studied a very large scries 
himself, he gives detailed and comparative descriptions, with revised 
synonymy of the various species under the following heads: — 1, A. 
boslcianus, Baud. ; 2, ecutellatus, Aud. ; 3, savignii, D. & B., var. n. 
schreiheri, Boulenger ; 4, lineo-maculatus, D. & B. ; 5, vulgaris^ D. & B, 
Bull. Soc. Zool. iii. [1878] pp. 179-197. 
Acanthodactylus vulgaris, D. & B., described by J. v. Bedriaga, Arch, 
f. Nat. xlv. p. 335. 
Eremias strauchi, sp. n., Kessler, Transcaucasian Voyage, p. 166, pi. ii.; 
also diagnosis given by Bedriaga, Bull. Mosc. liv. p. 32. 
Podarces {Eremias') intermedia, Strauch : diagnosis given by Bedriaga, 
1. c. p. 33. 
Mesalina pardalis, D. & B., nec Licht., = guttulata, Licht., according 
to Peters ; Blanford, J. A. S. B. xlviii. pt. ii. p. 127. 
ZoNUKlDiR. 
Platysaurus torquatus, sp. n., Peters, SB. nat. Fr. 1879, p. 10, Mozam- 
bique. 
GYMNOPHTHALMIDiE. 
Ahlepharus rutilus, sp. n., Peters, SB. nat. Fr. 1879, p, 37, Pelew Islands, 
SCINCIDAC, 
Sauroscincus, g. n. Nostrils between three shields, the nasal, fronto- 
nasal, and first supra-labial ; in other respects like Euprepes, with keeled 
dorsal scales and transparent lower eyelid. G. hraconnieri, sp. n, Peters, 
SB. nat. Fr. 1879, p. 149, New Caledonia. 
Eumeces punctatus. Two species are confounded in the synonymy of 
this lizard by Gunther. E. guentheri, sp. n,, Peters, SB. nat. Fr. 1879, 
p. 35. 
Lygosoma (Hinulia) sima and maindroni, spp. nn., Sauvage, Bull. Soc, 
Philom. (7) iii. p. 64, New Guinea. 
Elania annulata^ sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 69, New Guinea, 
Lygosoma {Mocod) orichalceum, Bottger, JB. Dffenb. Ver. xvii. & xviii. 
p. 2, Australia. 
Mocoa tetradactyla, sp. n., p. 300 ; Lygosoma lacrymans, Peters, = M. 
