ECAUDATA, CAUDATA. Rept. 25 
Brazil, sauvagii, p. 429, pi. xxix. fig. 3, Buenos Ayres, Boulenger, Cat. 
Batr. Ecaud. : spp. nn. 
Triprion spatulatus , sp. n., Gunther, Ann. N. H. (5) x. p. 279, Presidio, 
W. Mexico. 
PELOBATID2E. 
Batrachopsis, g. n., for Asterrophrys melanopyga, Doria ; Boulenger, 
Cat. Batr. Ecaud. p. 439. This name being pre-occupied, is changed into 
Lechriodus ; id. Cat. Batr. Caud. & Apoda, p. 116. 
Discoglossidas 
Alytes obstetricans (Laur.). A. Brunk reports on larvae of this species 
which passed more than two years and a half without transforming ; 
Zool. Anz. v. pp. 92-94. 
Amphignathodontidac. 
A new family established by the Recorder, Cat. Batr. Ecaud. p. 450, 
for Amphignathodon guentheri,g. & sp. nn., p. 451, pi. xxx., from Ecuador, 
presenting the characters of the Hylidce , with the addition of true teeth 
in the lower jaw. 
Dactylethrida:. 
Xenopus muelleri f Ptrs., described and figured by Peters, Reise n. 
Mossambique, iii. p. 180, pi. xxv. fig. 3. 
CAUDATA. 
Boulenger, G. A. Catalogue of the Batrachia Gradientia s. Caudata 
and Batrachia Apoda in the Collection of the British Museum. 
2nd Edition. London: 1882, 8vo, pp. viii. & 127, 9 pis. 
This work, carried on the same plan as the Catalogue of Tailless 
Batrachians (supra, p. 18), contains descriptions of 101 species of the 
Order Caudata , four-fifths of which are known to the author from 
autoptical examination; the collection of the British Museum, which 
contained only 38 species in 1850 (date of the 1st edition of the Cata- 
logue), contains now 78 species, represented by 1021 specimens. This 
Order is divided into 4 families, viz., Salamandridce, Amphiumidce , 
Proteidce , and Sircnidce\ the Salamandridce are again subdivided into 4 
subfamilies, viz., Salamandrince, Amblystomatidce , Plethodontince , and 
Desmognathince. 
Iwakawa, J. The Genesis of the Egg in Triton. Q. J. Micr. Sci. xxx. 
pp. 260-277, pis. xxii.-xxiv. Also abstract in Zool. Anz. v. pp. 10-12. 
The author’s researches have been made in Japan, on Molge pyrrho - 
gastra , Boie, an account of the habits of which is given in the introduc- 
tion to the paper. 
