32 Rept . IV. REPTILIA AND BATRACHIA. 
Cotylosauria : E. D. Cope, Amer. Natural, xxx, p. 301, gives an abstract 
of his paper reported in the preceding Record. 
Otoccelidcc, n. fam. Cotylosauria , regarded as ancestral to the Chelonians; 
Cope, Amer. Natural, xxx, p. 399. 
Otoccelus , n. g., for 0. testudineus , n. sp. (foss.) ; id. ibid . Permian, Texas. 
Conodectes, n. g., for C.favosus , Cope (foss.) ; id. ibid. Permian, Texas. 
AN OMODONTIA. 
Aristodesmus, n. g., for Labyrinthodon rutirneyeri, Wiedersh., which is 
referred to the Procolophonia, formiug a link between the Anomo- 
dont Reptiles and the Monotremes, which the author proposes to 
unite under the name Theropskla ; Seeley, P. R. Soc. lix, p. 167. 
BATRACHIA. 
On the brain and spinal cord of Batrachians ; Studnicka, SB. Bohmisch. 
Ges. Nos. xxxiii, 1 & li. 
On the lateral line system of sense organs in some North American 
Batrachians ; B. F. Kingsbury, Tr. Amer. Micr. Soc. xvii,. 
pp. 115-146, pis. i-v. 
On the nature of the claws of Batrachians ; Goppert, Morpliol. Jahrb. 
xxv, pp. 1-30, figg., pi. i. 
On the adipose bodies of Batrachians ; Giacomini, Monit. Zool. ital. vii, 
pp. 214-230 & 249-253. 
On the regeneration of the slime-epithelium of the digestive canal in 
Batrachians ; C. Sacerdotti, Arch. mikr. Anat. xlviii, pp. 359-369, 
pi. xv. 
On the external gills of Batrachians ; P. Clemens, Anat. Hefte. Arb. 
v, 1894, Heft. 1. 
On “ Neotenia, ” or prolongation of the larval life in Batrachians ; 
Wolterstorff, Zool. Garten, xxxvii, pp. 327-337. 
On the development of the ribs in Batrachians ; Goppert, Gegenbaur 
. Festschrift, i,' pp. 393-434, figg., 2 pis. 
R. Assiieton, Quart. J. Micr. Sci. xxxviii, pp. 465-484, pi. xxxv, has 
notes on the ciliation of the ectoderm in embryos of Frog and Newt. 
On the formation and significance of the neurenteric canal in Batrachians ; 
Kopscii, SB. Ges. naturf. Fr. 1896, pp. 165-174. 
G. Wilson, Tr. R. S. Edinb. xxxviii, pp. 509-526, 2 pis., writes on the 
development of the Mullerian duct in Batrachians. 
On the influence of the vitellus in the gastrulation of Batrachian ova ; 
Samassa, Arch. Entwickmech. ii, pp. 370-393, pi. xxiii. 
On artificial production of monstrosities in Batrachians ; O. Hertvvig, 
Gegenbaur Festschrift, ii, pp. 87-101, figg., 1 pi. 
On experimental regeneration of polydactyly in Batrachians ; D. Bar- 
furth, Arch. Entwickmech. i, 1895, pp. 91-116, pi. v. 
On the influence of electricity on the development of Batrachian ova ; 
U. Rossi, op. cit. iv, pp. 273-297, fig., pis. ix-xiv. 
EOAUDATA. 
Gaupp brings out the first part of a new edition of Ecker’s “ Anatomie 
des Frosches” (Brunswick: 1896, 8vo, xiii & 229 pp.), and G. 
Herbert Fowler, a revised edition of Marshall’s “ The Frog” 
(London : 1896, 8vo, 176 pp., figg.). 
