REPTILIA AND BATRACHJA. 
8 Rept. 
Silva Coutinho, upon the habits, capture, and economic use of the Che- 
lonians of the basin of the Amazon, and founds an apparently new 
species of Podocnemis. Ber. St.* Gall. Ges. 1884-85, pp. 273-280; also 
Zool. Gart. xxvii, pp. 329-335 & 366-372. 
Dep&ret, C. Description g^ologique du Bassin Tertiaire du Roussillon. 
These presentee a la Faculte des Sciences de Paris. Paris: 1885, 8vo. 
Reptiles (Cheloniaus), pp. 214-222, pi. iv. 
Testudo perplniana } n. sp. (foss.), Deperet, t. c. p. 214, pi. iv, figs. 13 
& 14, Pliocene of Roussillon. 
Homopus nogueyi , n. sp., Lataste, Le Nat. iii, p. 286, Upper Senegal. 
Emys gaudryi, n. sp. (foss.), Deperet, t. c. p. 217, pi. iv, figs. 8 & 9, 
Pliocene of Roussillon. 
Clemmys caspica , Gm. : notes on specimens from Lenkoran, Talysch ; 
Bcettger, in Radde, Fauu. Casp.-Geb. p. 35. C. watsoni , n. sp. (foss.), 
Lydekker, Q. J. Geol. Soc. xlii, p. 540, pi. xv, Pliocene Siwaliks, 
India. 
Pseudotrionyx , n. g. (foss ), for a shell apparently allied to Anostira , 
Leidy, but differently sculptured. P. delheidi } n. sp., Dollo, Bull. 
Mus. Belg. iv, p. 96, pis. i & ii, Upper Eocene of Melsbroek, near 
Brussels. 
On the food of Thalassochelys caretta ; G. Pouchet & J. de Guerne, 
C.R. cii, pp. 877-879. 
Notochelys costata. Ow. (foss.), is from the Cretaceous beds of 
Landsborough Creek ; R. Etheridge, Jun M Geol. Mag. (3) iii, p. 239. 
Pachyrhynchus, n. g. (foss.) [name preoccupied], type of a new sub- 
family of Ghelonidaiy Pachyrhynchince, characterized by the very long and 
flat mandibulavy symphysis and the position of the choana3; Dollo, Bull. 
Mus. Belg. iv, p. 130, figs.. For Chelone longireps , Ow., planimentum , 
Ow., trigoniceps, Ow., and P. gosseleti , n. sp., id. t. c. p. 138, from 
the Lower Eocene of Erquelinnes, Belgium. [Cope had previously 
proposed (1871) the name Puppigerus for the above Oweniau species. 
— Rec.] 
Meiolania platy ceps and M. minor , n. g. & spp. (foss.), Owen, P. R. Soc. 
xl, p. 315 (Abstract), Lord Howe’s Island. For a g. or subg. related 
to Megalaniu. [These remains have since been shown by Huxley to be 
Chelonian. — R ec.] 
R. Owen describes some fossil remains, including foot-bones, from 
Queensland, which he refers to Megalania prisca,Ow . ; Phil. Tr. clxxvii, 
pp. 327-330, pi. iv. 
Platemys torrentium, n. sp. (foss.), Burmeister, An. Mus. B. Aires, iii, 
p. 147, Tertiary of Parana. 
Hydromedusa tectifera , Cope. Burmeister regards II. wagleri , Gthr., 
and II. platensis , Gray, as individual variations of H. maximiliam, Wagl. ; 
An. Soc. Arg. xxi, p. 5. 
Podocnemis coutinhii , n. sp., Goldi, Ber. St. Gall. Ges. 1884-85, p. 279, 
pi. v, Amazon. 
Carcttochelys , n. g., Ramsay, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i, p. 158. 
Apparently a pleurodirau fresh-water Turtle, with the limbs much as 
