CHELONIA, CROCODILIA. Rept. 9 
in the Marine Turtles, and without epidermic scutes on the shell. 
C. imculptus , n. sp., id. t. e. pis. iii-vi, Fly River, Now Guinea. 
Dermatochclys (Sphargis) is regarded by Baur as the most specialised 
form of the marine Turtles, from which it should not be separated ; Zool. 
Anz. ix, p. 687. 
Psephoderma , H. v. Mey. (foss.), is undoubtedly a Chelonian ; Baur, 
t. c. p. 688. [A view expressed by Cope in 1870.— Rec.] 
CROCODILIA. 
Woodward, A. S. The History of Fossil Crocodiles. P. Geol. Ass. ix, 
pp. 288-344, figs. 
A review of the more important types, with special reference to those 
from British formations. 
Koken remarks on the brain and auditory organs of fossil Crocodiles ; 
SB. nat. Fr. 1886, pp. 2-4. 
Baur, G. The Proatlas, Atlas, and Axis of the Crocodilia. Am. Nat. xx, 
pp. 288-293, figs. 
On the number of pnesacral vertebrae in the Crocodilia ; G. Baur, Zool. 
Anz. ix, pp. 689 & 690. On the chevron bones and the quadratojugal ; id. 
t. c. pp. 738 & 739. On the so-called post-frontal (= post-orbital), and on 
the hind limb ; id. t. c. p. 740. 
On the probability of Alligators having been floated from San 
Domingo to Magna, Bahamas, on logs of wood; J. Gardiner, Nature, 
xxxix, p. 546. 
Hofmann, A. Crocodiliden aus dem Miocaen der Steiermark. Beitr. 
Pal. Oesterr.-Ung. v, pp. 26-35, pis. xi-xv. 
T wo new species are described. 
Crocodilus robustus, Vaill. & Grand. : on a sub-fossil humerus formerly 
referred by Guldberg to JEpyornis ; Dames, SB. nat. Fr. 1886, pp. 68-70. 
C. palceindicus, Falc. (foss.), described by Lydekker, Pal. Ind. (10) iii, 
p. 217, pis. xxviii, fig. 2, & xxix, fig. 3. C. sivalensis , n. sp. (foss.), id. 
t. c. p. 213, pis. xxviii, figs. 1 & 3, & xxix, figs. 2 & 4, Siwalik Hills. G. 
steineri , n. sp. (foss.), Hofmann, t. c. p. 27, pis. xi-xiii, Miocene of Wies, 
Styria. 
Crocodilus ( Alligator ) styriacus, n. sp. (foss.), Hofmann, t. c. p. 33, 
pis. xiv & xv ; Miocene of Wies, Styria. 
Crocodilus australis , Bravard (foss.), appears to be based on remains 
(from the Tertiary of Parana) of two species, an Alligator and a Gavial, 
for which the name of Rharnphostoma neogcca , n. sp. (p. 151), is proposed ; 
Burmeister, An. Mus. B. Aires, iii, pp. 148-152. 
Tomistoma. Melitosaurus champsoides t Owen (Miocene of Malta), 
Crocodilus gaudensis , Hulke (Miocene of Gozo, near Malta), and Gavia- 
losuchus egyenburgensis , Toula (Miocene of Eggenburg, Austria), are 
referred to this genus by Lydekker, Q. J. Geol. Soc. xlii, pp. 20-22. T. 
champsoides figured, pi. ii. 
