18 Rejjt. 
BATKACHIA. 
strongly refuted this determination, but his new paper belongs to 1880.— 
Rec.] 
Triton maltzani^ sp. n., Bottger, Z. ges. Nat. (3) iv. p. 521, Portugal. 
Euproctus. Description of a specimen with large parotides referred pro- 
visionally to E. platycephalus ; general remarks on species of the genus, 
and adoption of the genus Tritiirus, Raf., with the following subgenera; 
— Triturus, Euproctus^Fleurodeles, Tylotriton. Boulenger, Bull. Soc. Zool. 
hi. [1878] pp. 304-308. 
On Euproctus montanus and rusconii and Molge platycephala, Grav. 
[see Zool. Rec. xv. Rept. p. 15] : H. Giglioli, Nature, xix. p. 97 ; Bedriaga, 
Zool. Anz. ii. pp. 451-455 ; De Betta, Atti 1st, Venet. (5) v. 
Pleurodeles waltli : J. Bedriaga, “ Beitrage zur Kenntniss des Rippen- 
molches,” Bull. Mosc. 1879, pp. 179-201 (woodcut) ; also id. Zool. Anz. ii, 
1879, p. 94. On the costal spines or projections in this animal ; Leydig, 
Arch. f. Nat. xlv. pp. 211-234, pis. xiv. & xv. On its skeleton ; Wieders- 
heim, Zool. Anz. ii. 1879, p. 622. 
Bradyhates veniricosus, Fisch,, = Pleurodeles waltli., Mich. ; Lataste, 
Actes Soc. Linn. Bord. (4) iii. pp. 113-118, & Zool. Anz. ii. p. 307. 
Pachytriton, g. n., for Triton hrevipes, Sauvage ; Boulenger, Bull. Soc. 
Zool. iii. [1878] p. 72. 
T'ylotriton verrucosus^ Anders. Redescribed in detail and figured ; the 
osteological characters are particularly dwelt upon. Tylotriton belongs 
to theMecodont section of Strauch, but shows peculiarities which separate 
it from all others of that section. Anderson, Yunnan, p. 848, pi. Ixxvi. 
fig. 6. 
Salamandra atra. An account in English of Mdme. von Chauvin’s 
experiment with respect to the development of this species [Zool. Rec. 
xiv. Re 2 Jt. p, 13] ; G. Bettany, Nature, xviii. p. 108. 
Batrachitperus, g. n. : for Salamandrella sinensis, Sauvage ; Boulenger, 
Bull. Soc. Zool. iii. [1878] p. 71. 
Spelerpes (CEdipus) parvipes, from New Granada, infuscatus, from 
Hayti, spp. nu., Peters, MB. Ak. Berl. 1879, p. 778 [a writer in Am. 
Nat. xiv. p. 287, remarks that if the last locality be correct, it gives an 
entirely new distribution for the genus]. 
Amblystoma. On the eggs produced by Amblystomce reared from 
Axolotls in the Museum d’Hist. Nat. ; L. Vaillant, C. R. Ixxxix. pp. 
108-110. 
On the metamorphosis of Siredon lichenoides, Baird, mio Amblystoma 
mavortium, Baird ; II Hartmann, SB. nat. Fr. 1879, pp. 76-78. 
A new species of Siredon is described, its anatomy and metamorphosis 
being treated at great length, by J. Velasco, in Nat. Mex. iv. 
pp. 209-233, pis. vii.-ix. See also M. Villada, 1. c. p. 234. S. tigrinus, 
sp. n., Velasco, Mem. Soc. Mex. 1875, Mexico. Its distinctness from 
Ambl. mavortium, Bd., questioned by Cope, Am. Nat. xiii. p. 456. 
R. Wiedersheim has given a detailed account of the anatomy of 
Axolotl before and after the metamorphosis into Amblystoma, which was 
established by the discovery of Weismann in 1875, applying to it the 
name of Amblystoma weismanni, which is characterized as a species ; Z. 
wiss. Zool. xxxii. pp. 216-236, pis. xi. & xii. 
