IY. REPTILIA. 
30 Rept. 
Steneosaurus , Geoffr. (foss.) : notes on the pelvic arch, limbs, and anterior 
cervical vertebrae ; Bigot, Bull. Soc. geol. France (3) xxiv, p. 235. 
S. roissyi , E. Desl., and heberti, Morel de Glasville (foss.) : notes by 
A. Bigot, Bull. Soc. geol. Norm, xvii, pp. 1 & 8, pi. ii, figg. 1 & 2. 
S. intermedius , n. sp. (foss.), id. ibid., p. 5, pi. i, Jurassic, Beuzeval, 
Normandy. 
Suchodus durobrivensis , Lyd. (foss.) : recorded from the Oxfordian of 
Villers, Normandy, by A. Bigot, t. c. p. 9, pi. ii, figg. 3-8. 
CHELONIA. 
J. F. van Bemmelen, Congr. Zool. Leyden, pp. 322-335, discusses the 
phylogeny of Chelonians. Remarks by G. Baur, Anat. Auz. xii, 
pp. 501-570. 
J. F. van Bemmelen, in Gegenbaur’s Festschrift, ii, pp. 279-280, 
describes the skull of Dermochelys coriacea, and discusses the value of 
its characters from the phylogenetic point of view. 
On the presence of the “ praesplenial ” bone in Toxochelys and Callichclys ; 
Baur, Anat. Anz. xi, p. 569. 
On the spinal ganglia of Chelydra serpentina ; G. C. Huber, op. cit. xii, 
pp. 424 & 425. 
On the brain of Trionyx viaticus ; S. P. Gage, Tr. Amer. Micr. Soc. xvii, 
pp. 185-238, pis. i-v. 
On the primitive streak and notochordal canal in Chelonians ; Gertrude 
C. Davenport, Radcliffe College Monographs (Boston), No. 8, 
55 pp. 
On the origin and development of the haemovasal tissue in Emys ; 
Meiinert, Morpliol. Arbeit, vi, pp. 1-47, pis. i-iii. 
Trionyx pontanus , n. sp. (foss.), Laube, Schildkrotenreste Bohm. 
(Prague, 1896, 4to), Brown Coal of Bohemia. 
Sternothcerus niyricans , Donnd., and sinuatus, Smith : remarks by 
Tornier, Kriechth. 0. Afr. p. 4, fig. ; Boulenqer, Ann. Mus. 
Genova (2) xvii, p. 15. 
Pelomedusa yaleata , Schcepff : on its habits in confinement ; A. Hanau, 
Zool. Garten, xxxvii, p. 311. 
Testudo emys , Schleg. & Mull. : notes by van Lidtii de Jeude, with 
figures of the plastron and skull, Notes Leyden Mus. xvii, p. 197, 
pis. v & vi. T. ephippium , Gthr. : notes by Gunther, Nov. Zool. 
iii, p. 329, pis. xx-xxii. W. Rothschild, op. cit. p. 85, has 
further notes on gigantic Land Tortoises. T. zarudnyi , n. sp., 
Nikolski, Annuaire Ac. St. Petersb. 1896, p. 369, E. Persia. T. kalks- 
burgensis , n. sp. (foss.), Toula, Zeitschr. Deutsch. Geol. Ges. xlviii, 
pp. 915-924, figg., Tertiary, Kalksburg, near Vienna. 
Emys orbicularis , L. : further notes on its occurrence in Switzerland ; 
Fisciier-Sigwart, Arch. Sci. Nat. (4) i, p. 610, and Zool. Garten, 
xxxvii, p. 244. 
Cistudo Carolina , L. : on its habits in confinement ; A. Hanau, t. c. 
p. 308. G. bauri , Taylor : remarks by Loennberg, P. U. S. Mus. 
xix, p. 253. 
Brookeia, n. g., for Hardella baileyi , E. Bartl. ; E. Bartlett, Sarawak 
Gazette, June 1, 1896, and Note-Book Sarawak, No. 2, 1896, 
p. 81. 
Cinosternum odoratum , Daud. : on its habits in confinement ; A. Hanau, 
t. c. p. 309. 
Adelochelys crassa , n. g. & sp., allied to Staurotypus , for a skull of un- 
known origin ; Baur, Anat. Anz. xii, p. 314, figg. [Has not been 
compared with Claudius , Cope. — R ec.] 
