6 llept. 
REPTILIA. 
chida = Potamites, D. & B. Fam. iii. Chelonida = Thalassites, D. & B., 
with 2 tribes, Chelonina and Sphargidina, 
OROCODILIA. 
Alix, — . Sur la conformation de I’isthme du gosier chez les Crocodiles. 
Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) i. pp. 168 & 169, & Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. ii. 
pp. 247 & 248. 
Crocodilus vulgaris^ Cuv., var. n. madagascariensis^ Bottger, Abh. 
senck. Ges. xi. p. 27, pi. i. fig. 6. 
RHYNOHOCEPHALIA. 
{flatt(}ria) Sphenodon guntheri, sp. n., from Brothers Islands, near 
Cook Strait, New Zealand ; and notes on S. punctatum ; W. Buller, 
Tr. N. Z. Inst. ix. pp, 317-326. 
SAURIA. 
LanthanotuSf g. n., type of a new family, next to Hdodermidaiy and 
distinguished by absence of external ear and an arrangement of the dorsal 
shields resembling Crocodilus acutus ; for L. lorneensis, sp. n. Stein- 
dachner, Wien, 1877, 4to, pp. 3 & 4, pi. ii. [anticipatory separate copy of 
paper in Denk. Ak. Wien, xxxviii. 1878, pp. 95 & 96] Borneo. 
VARANIDiK. 
Teiovaranus, g. n., forms a subfamily of Varanidee, contiguous to the 
Teiidce, characterized by the elongate heart-shaped tongue without basal 
sheath, large mental and rostral shield, and pterygoid teeth ; for T. 
hranickiij sp. n. Steindachner, 1. c. pp. 1-3, pi. i. S. America* [separate 
copy, as above, pp. 93-95]. 
Teiid.$i. 
On the synonymy of Spix's species ; Peters, MB. Ak. Berl. 1877, 
p. 411. 
CnemidopJiorus microlepidopus, unicolor^ immutabilis, p. 93, Tehuan- 
tepec ; lineatissimuSf Colima, lativittis, Tehuantepec, p. 94 ; communis^ 
angusticepSj Central America, p. 95; costatus, p. 95, Mexico; Cope, 
P. Am. Phil. Soc. xvii. : spp. nn. 
LaCERTIDvE. 
Lacerta. J. v. Bedriaga, in “ Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Mauereidech- 
son,” Arch. f. Nat. (2) 1877, pp. 113-120, describes L, viridi-ocellata, sp. n., 
Messina. 
* Dr. Steindachner has since informed mo that this is no other than Gallopistes 
fiavi/punctata, D. & B.— Recorder. 
