SQUAMATA, 0 RN ITIl OS A U R I A . Kept. 13 
Dislira cyanocincta , Daud. : on the presence of grooves in the mandi- 
bular teeth ; Boulenger, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 617. 
Hydropliis trachyceps , Theob., and II. crassicollis , And., = Distira 
cyanocincta , Daud. ; W. Sclater, J. A. S. B. lx, p. 247. 
VlPERIDJE. 
K. W. Dalla Torre, Progr. Staats-Gymn. Innsbruck, 1891,° writes 
on the Vipers of the Tyrol. 
°Banzer, A. Die Kreuzotter. Ihre Lebensweise, ihr Biss und ihre 
Verbreituug mit besonderer Beriicksichtung ihres Vorkommens in 
Bayern. Munich : 1891, 8vo, 48 pp. 
Vipera herns , L. : on its habits and distribution in Germany ; Hagen, 
Abh. naturli. Ges. Niirnberg, viii, p. 51. 
Cerastes vipera , L., figured by Boulenger, Tr. Z. S. xiii, pi. xviii, fig. 2. 
Quelcii, J. J. The Rattlesnake — The Growth of the Rattle. Timebri 
(2) v, pp. 1-11, pi. 
Feokistow, A. Sur la sonnette du Crotalus clurissus. Bull. Petersb. 
(2) i, pp. 1-4 (1889). 
Crotalus durissus , L. : physiological notes by A. E. Feokistow, Mel. 
biol. xiii, pp. 1-4. C. pyrrhus, Cope, recorded from California by Sl’EJ- 
NEGER, West Am. Scientist, vii, p. 165. 
ORNITHOSAURIA. 
Seeley, H. G. The Ornithosauriau Pelvis. Ann. N. II. (6) vii, pp. 
237-255, figs. 
The author concludes with the following scheme of classification : — 
I. Ornitiiocueiroidea. 
Fams. Oniilhocheiridx , P teranodontidw. 
II. Pterodactylia. 
Fam. Pterodactylkhc. 
III. Pterodermata. 
Fams. Dimorphodontidw , Rhampliorhyncliidie. 
. On the Shoulder-Girdle in Cretaceous Ornithosauria. T. c. pp. 
438-445. 
R. Lydekker, Q. J. Geol. Soc. xlvii, p. 41, pi. v, figs. 3 & 4, has notes 
on remains of Ornithosaurian quadrates. 
A. S. Woodward, Ann. N. H. (6) viii, p. 314, fig., notices au Ornitho- 
saurian quadrate from the Cretaceous of the Province of Bahia, Brazil. 
' Ptcranodon longiceps , Marsh : on the skull and hind extremity ; Wil- 
liston, Arn. Nat. xxv, p. 1124. 
