ANURA. 
Kept. 15 
Some observations on the form of the pupil and the colour of the iris 
in certain Batrachia. Bonlenger, Bull. Soc. Zool. iv. pp. 119-131. 
In a paper “ Division en families naturelles des Batraciens Anoures 
d’Europe,” F. Lataste gives a classification of the European Anura^ fol- 
lowed by a list of the A nura and Urodela of France (the result of five 
years of research). The author then details a series of observations 
respecting the act of copulation in tailed Batrachians. Rev . Int, ii. 
[1878] pp. 488-499. 
Anura. 
Hi^ron-Royer, — . Researches on the fecundity oE tail-less Batrachians 
(^Alytes ohstetricans, Hyla viridis)^ and on the impregnation of the 
eggs of Bufo vulgaris in darkness. Bull. Soc. Zool. iii. [1878] 
pp. 278-285. 
On the same subject, referring to Rana teinporaria, Bufo vulgaris^ 
Pelohates fuscus, Pelodytes punctatus, and Rana oxyrrhina ; id. 1. c. 
pp. 122-127. 
• — -. On the utility of tail-less Batrachians as a means of combating 
the Phylloxera. Id. 1. c. pp. 286-298. 
Kessler, K. Ueber einen Fall der Ueberwinterung von Kaulgnappen 
der Rana esculenta. Bull. Mosc. liv. pt. i. p. 207. 
SoGrOT, P. Recherches des plantes tres-veneneuses par I’essai sur les 
t^tards des Batraciens. Paris ; 1879, 8vo, 6 pp. 
Heron-Royer has made experiments on the changes of colour in the 
tadpoles of tailless Batrachians, with a view to showing the effect pro- 
duced by variations in the quality and amount of their food. Bull. Soc* 
Zool. iii. [1878] pp. 62-67. 
On albinism in the tadpoles of tail-less Batrachians ; Lataste, Bull. Soc. 
Zool. iii. [1878] pp. 46-52. 
F. Lataste has proposed a division of the Anura into sub-orders, Medio- 
gyrinides and Lcevogyrinides^ characterized by differences in the position of 
the spiraculum in the tadpole and in the form of the vertebrae ia the 
adult. Rev. Int. ii. [1878] p. 488, and iii. p. 49 ; also C.R. Ixxxviii. 
p. 984 ; and Actes Soc. L. Bord. (4) iii. p. 339. Vide supra. 
Rana temporaria. A study of the various species which have been 
confounded under this head, the characters given in a tabular synopsis, 
and 7 species fully described. R. iherica, p. 177, latastii, p. ISO^japonica 
{R. temporaria, var. japonica, Gthr.), p. 190, spp. nn., Boulenger, Bull. 
Soc. Zool. iv. pp. 168-193. 
On the tadpole of Rana agilis, with a note on the means of determining 
that of Pelodytes punctatus. H(5ron-Royer, Bull. Soc. Zool. iii. [1878] 
pp. 128-132, pi. iii. 
Supplementary description of Pelodytes punctatus \ id. 1. c. p. 299. 
Further supplement on the egg and first embryonic period ; id. op. cit. iv. 
pp. 229-239. 
Rana mascareniensis, D. & B. Description of a frog from Egypt sup- 
