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A frica. 
W. Peters enumerates the Reptilia collected in Chinchoxo ( W. Africa), 
and presented by the German African Society to tlio Berlin Museum, 
describing a considerable number of new species, and adding notes on 
many of the others. L. c. pp. 611-620, pi. 
Madagascar and the Mascarenes. 
Bottger, O. Die Reptilien . und Amphibien von Madagascar. Abh. 
Senck. Ges. xi. pp. 1-56, pi. i. ; also separately, Frankfurt- a-M. : 
1877, 4to, 51 pp. 1 pi. 
Descriptions of all the Reptiles hitherto enumerated as inhabiting 
Madagascar, founded upon a large collection obtained for the Sencken- 
berg Museum, which, however, only affords one new species (of TypMops), 
and a few new varieties which will be indicated. Special portions of the 
paper are devoted to the geographical distribution of reptiles in the 
island generally, and of the different groups. On page 38, the writer 
says that Chartmleon hrootcesianus does not occur there; the Recorder 
is able, however, to state that there are many specimens from that 
island in the British Museum collection. 
Gunther, A. Some new species of Reptiles from Madagascar. Ann. 
N. H. (4) xix. pp. 313-317. 
. Notice of two large extinct Lizards, formerly inhabiting the Mas- 
carene Islands. J. L. S. xiii. pp. 322-327, figs. 1-6. 
1. Didosaurus mauritianus^ g. & sp. nn. Remains found in a locality 
famous for Dodo bones indicate the existence in Mauritius of a largo 
lizard, 14 or 15 inches long, probably belonging to the Zomridee or 
Scincidoi. 2. Geclw newtoni, sp. n., from Rodriguez. 
W. Peters notices the Reptilia collected by K. Mobius in the Mas- 
carenes and Seychelles. Tom. cit. pp 455-457. 
Ind.ia. 
Col. Bbddome describes throe new reptiles from the Madras Presi- 
dency, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 685; and three new species {Uropeltidce) from 
Southern India, 1. c., pp. 167 & 168. 
China. 
Sauvage, H. E. Sur quelques Batraciens de Chine. Bull. Soc. Philom. 
(7)i.pp. 115-118. 
0. F. VON Mollendorff gives a list of Reptiles from Chihli, with their 
Chinese names. J . N. China Soc. (n. s.) xi. pp. 103-105. 
A list of the Reptiles collected and observed during the Prussian 
Expedition in Eastern Asia is given by VON Martens (pp. 373-384) in 
the volume (Berlin ; 1876, 8vo) lately issued, which continues the publi- 
cation from p. 192, where this section of the work was left in 1865. 
Notices of various reptiles are scattered through the volume ; but all the 
new species were described several years ago, chiefly by Peters, in 1864. • 
