18 Rept. 
IV. REPTILIA AND BATRACHIA. 
Fossil Faunae. 
On the fossil Reptiles of the Moray Firth area ; Traquair, in 
Harvie-Brown & Buckley’s Vertebrate Fauna of the Moray Basin, ii, 
pp. 273-280, figg. 
On some * Reptiles from the Jurassic Beds of Calvados, Normandy ; 
Bigot, Bull. Soc. geol. France (3) xxiv, pp. 234 & 235. 
On some Chelonian remains from the Rupelian Clay of Boom, Belgium; 
Delheid, Pr.-v. Soc. malac. Belgique, 1896, p. xxviii. 
E. Koken brings out an appendix to his monograph of the Reptiles 
of the North German Wealden. Pal. Abh. (2) iii, pp. 119-126, pis. xi-xiv. 
On Batrachian remains (Frogs and Toads) from the Pleistocene of 
Weimar and Taubach ; W. Wolterstorff, Zeitschr. Deutsch. geol. Ges. 
1896, pp. 197 & 198. 
A. Fritscii gives a list of the Reptiles and Batrachians hitherto found 
in the Permian formation of Bohemia. SB. Bohmiscli. Ges. 1895, No. Iii. 
A list of the Mesozoic Crocodilians and Dinosaurs of Portugal, by H. E. 
Sauvage, Bull. Soc. geol. France (3) xxiv, pp. 46-48. 
III. — REFERENCES ARRANGED SYSTEMATICALLY. 
REPTILIA and BATRACHIA. 
Bqulenger’s third volume of the Catalogue of Snakes concludes the 
revision of the Reptiles and Batrachians. The total number of 
species of these two classes is estimated at 5170. 
H. Gadow, Phil. Trans, clxxxvii, u, pp. 1-57, figg., deals with the mor- 
phology and evolution of the vertebral column in Reptiles and 
Batrachians. 
On the morphology of vertebrae in Reptiles and Batrachians ; Ggette, 
Zeitschr. wiss. Zool. Ixii, pp. 343-394, figg., pis. xv-xvii. 
On the epiphysis and parietal organs ; Leydig, Abh. Senckenb. Ges. xix, 
pp. 217-278, pis. i-iv. 
O. Seydel investigates the nasal cavity and the Jacobson’s organ in 
Tortoises, and compares them with the same in Batrachians ; Gegen- 
baur Festschrift, ii, pp. 385-486, figg. 
S. Vincent writes on the suprarenal capsules in Reptiles and Batrachians; 
P. Birmingh. Soc. x, pp. 10-26, pis. i & ii. 
E. Loennberg has re-examined and identified a large number of the 
Linnean type specimens of Reptiles and Batrachians preserved in 
the Zoological Museum of the University in Upsala ; Bih. Svenska 
Ak. xxii, No. 1. 
C. Forsyth Major writes on Ihe names of Reptiles and Batrachians in 
the islands of the Greek Archipelago ; Karpathos (Lausanne : 
1895, 4to), pp. 76-88. 
On the best methods of keeping German Reptiles and Batrachians in 
confinement ; Lachmann, Zool. Garten, xxxvii, pp. 264-272, figg. 
REPTILIA. • 
On the ventral musculature of Reptiles; F. Maurer, Gegenbaur 
Festschrift, i, pp. 181-256, 4 pis. 
On the structure of the trachea in Reptiles ; F. Livini, Monit. Zool. 
ital. vii, pp. 69-74. 
On Neotenia in Reptiles ; J. E. V. Boas, Gegenbaur Festschrift, ii, 
pp. 1-20. 
