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Lataste, F. Sur I’habitat du Triton vittatus^ Gray, et sur T identification 
de cette espece avec le T. ojjhryticuSj Berth. Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. ii. 
pp. 359-372. 
(With postscriptum from F. Strauch on the separation of the orbital 
from the temporal cavity in T. ojyhryticus.') 
Triton vulgaris. Account of an individual which lived twenty years in 
captivity as a terrestrial and not an aquatic animal ; Van Hasselt, 1. c. 
pp. 285-296. 
Triton hrevipes^ sp. n., Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) i. p. 116, China. 
Salamandrella sinensis^ sp, n., id. 1. c. p. 117, China. 
Tylotriton verrucosus^ Anders., found in Sikkim, the first example of a 
tailed Batrachian in India; Wood-Mason, P. A. S. B. 1877, p. 53. 
Onychodactylusjaponicus,^ou^^.'. complete account of this species; 
Troschel, Arch. f. Na,t. (2) 1877, pp. 199-214, pi, xv. figs. 1-14. 
Siren lacerlina : on reconstruction of the gills in this species ; 
R. Wiedersheim, Morph. JB, iii. pp. 630 & 631. 
Siren lacertina in captivity, observations on ; tl. Erber, Verb. z.-b. 
Wien, xxvi. p. 114. 
Menopopia alleghaniense ; observations on the shedding of the skin. 
A. Grote, from an examination of 100 specimens, is of opinion that there 
is but one species from the tributaries of the Mississippi ; P. Am. Ass. 
1877, pp. 255-257. 
Axolotl. P. Brocchi, Note sur le syst^me nerveux, Bull. Soc. Philom. 
(7) i. pp. 21-24. Note sur les nerfs trijumeaux et facial, id. 1. c. p. 59-61. 
De I’absence du grand sjmipathique, id. 1. c. pp, 71-73, 
Proteus anguineus. R. Wiedersheim, Morph. JB. iii. p. 632, refers to 
F. Schulze’s Memoir in Z. wiss. Zool. xxyi., which described the eggs laid 
by a Proteus, aud established the fact of its being an oviparous reptile. 
It would seem that the eggs of Proteus closely resemble those of the 
Axolotl, a short description of ^kich was given by Stieda in SB. Ges. 
Dorp., 20th March, 1875, 
