4 Ttept. 
BEPTILIA AND BATRACHIA. 
PALAEONTOLOGY. 
Cope, E. D. Tho Reptiles of the American Eocene. Am. Nat. xvi. 
pp. 979-993, woodcuts. 
Newton, E. T. Notes on the Vertebrata of the Pre-Glacial Forest 
Bed Series of the East of England. Part vi. Aves , Reptilia , and 
Amphibia. Geol. Mag. (2) ix. pp. 7-9. 
Notes on remains referred to Tropidonotus natrix, Vipera berus, Rana 
temporaria ?, Rana esculenta ?, and Triton cristatus. 
Sauvage, H. E. Recherches sur les Reptiles trouv^s dans le Gault de 
PEst du Bassin de Paris. M6m. Soc. Geol. (3) ii. art. iv. pp. 1-41, 
pis. xxix.-xxxii. Abstract in C. R. xciv. pp. 12G5 & 12GG. 
Descriptions of numerous remains referred to various groups of 
Reptilia , including a new species of Megalosauras. 
. Synopsis des poissons et des reptiles des terrains jurassiques 
de Boulogne-sur-Mer. Bull. Soc. Geol. (3) viii. pp. 524-547, pis. 
xix.-xxi. 
REPTILIA. 
Bronn, H. G. Ivlassen und Ordnungen des Thierreichs. vi. Abth. iii. 
pp. G73-1008, pis. lxxiii.-ciii. Reptilia , by C. K. Hoffmann. 
Anatomy of the Crocodilia and Lacertilia. 
Gadow, H. Beitrage zur Myologie der hinteren Extremitat der Rep- 
tilien. Morph. JB. vii. pp. 329-4G6, pis. xvii.-xxi, 
Hoffmann, C. K. Contribution a l’histoire du ddveloppement des 
Reptiles. Arch. Neerl. xvii. pp. 168-192, pis. iv. & v. 
ORNITHOSAURIA. 
O. C. Marsh, Am. J. Sci. (3) xxiii. pp. 251-256, pi. iii., has a paper on 
the wings of Pterodactyles. He describes a beautifully preserved speci- 
men, Rhamphorrhynchus phyllurus, sp. n., from the lithographic slates near 
Eichstadt, Bavaria, and shows the wing-membranes to have been very 
similar to the patagium of modern bats, also that the distal extremity of 
the tail supported a vertical membrane kept in position by a series of car- 
tilaginous spines, homologous with neural spines and chevron bones. This 
paper also affords great information on the bones of the wings and scapu- 
lar arch. The fossil is figured, natural size, on pi. iii., and a restoration 
of the animal given, p. 256. 
Zittel, K. A. Ueber Flugsaurier aus dem lithographischen Schiefer 
Bayern’s. Palseontogr. xxix. pp. 47-80, pis. x.-xiii. 
This important monograph contains descriptions and figures of the 
following forms : — 
Rhamphorrhynchus gemmingi , Mey. ; the completely preserved pata- 
