28 Rept. 
REPTILIA AND BATRACHIA. 
Amblyodon, g. n., for A. problematicum , sp. n., provisionally named on 
scanty materials, p. 644, pi. xl. figs. 57-61. 
Dawson, J. W. On Horny Scales and other Appendages of Carboniferous 
Amphibians. L. c. pp. 647 & 648, woodcut ( Ilylonomus and Dendrer- 
peton). 
. On the Footprints of Batrachians observed in the Carboniferous 
Rocks of Nova Scotia. L. c. pp. 651-654. 
The evidence of these footprints serves to indicate that both Labryrin- 
thodonta and Microsauria existed in Nova Scotia throughout the Carbo- 
niferous Period, aud that very many of the larger and important species 
still remain to be discovered. 
Credner, E. Die Stegocephalen aus dem Rothliegenden des Plauen’- 
schen Grundes bei Dresden, hi. Thiel. Z. geol. Ges. xxiv. pp. 213-237, 
pis. xii. & xiii. [Also preliminary note in SB. Ges. Leipzig, viii. 
pp. 45 & 46.] 
The following forms are described : — Pelosaurus , g. n., allied to Mela- 
nerpeton and Archegosaurus, p. 214 ; P. laticeps , sp. n., p. 215, pis. xii. & 
xiii. figs. 1-5. 
Archegosaurus decheni , Goldf., p. 231, pi. xiii. figs. 9-14, and latirostris, 
Jord., p. 235, pi. xiii. figs. 6-8. 
Geinitz, H. B., & Deiciimuller, J. V. Die Saurier der unteren 
Dryas von Sachsen. Palaeontogr. (3) v. i. pp. 1-46, pis. i.-ix. 
Extensive descriptions and figures of the following forms are given : — 
Saurichnites , sp., p. 9, pi. x., footprints. 
Phanerosaurus pugnax } sp. n., p. 10, pis. iv. & v. 
Zygosaurus labyrinthicus (Gein.), p. 16, pis. ii. & iii. 
Archegosaurus latifrons , sp. n., p. 21, pi. vi. 
Melanerpeton latirostre , Credu., p. 23, pi. vii. figs. 1-5, and spiniceps f 
p. 27, pi. vii. figs. 6-11. 
Branchiosaurus amblystomus, Credn., p. 31, pi. vii. figs. 12-15, and 
petrolei (Gaudry), p. 34, pi. viii. figs. 10-19. 
Hyloplesion fritschi , sp. n., p. 38, pi. viii. figs. 1-9. 
The same authors, pp. 41 & 42, also give a synopsis of the characters 
of the pectoral arch and the pectoral plates of the Saxon Stegocephala. 
Also a note on PaUeosiren beinerti, Gein., p. 42, pis. ix. & viii. figs. 22. 
E. D. Cope, Am. Nat. xvi. pp. 334 & 335, states that the Order 
Ganocephala, Owen, must be given up, as founded on erroneous characters, 
and proposes the new name Rachitomi for the suborder represented by 
Eryops t Actinodon , &c. ; he establishes 2 families, viz., Trimerorachidce 
(g. Trimerorachis ) and Eryopidce (gg. Eryops , A ctinodon , and probably 
Zatrachys). 
On the discovery of remains of Ophiderpetoriy or a closely-allied genus, 
in the Wardic shales, Carboniferous sandstone, near Edinburgh ; J. Stock, 
Nature, xxviii. p. 22. 
