I’LESIOSAURIA LACERTILIA. 
Rept. 1 1 
pi. xv, fig. 3, from the Chalk of Sweden : JB. Preuss. geol. Laudes- 
Anstalt, 1884 [1885]. P. balticus , n. sp., id. ibid. p. 297, pis. xiii & xiv, 
Upper Chalk of the Baltic. 
Pliosaurus ? gigas , n. sp., Schroder, t. c. p. 322, pi. xvi fig. 1, Upper 
Chalk of the Baltic. 
W. Deecke describes and figures a specimen of Lariosaurus balsami , 
Cur., pp. 172-1 89, pis. iii & iv, and makes remarks on Pachypleura edwardai , 
Corn., and Macromerosaurus plinii , Cur., pp. 189-194 : Z. geol. Ges. 
xxxviii. 
Gyamodus tcirnowitzensis, n. sp., Giirich, JB. schles. Ges. 1884, p. 218 
[1885], Muschelkalk of Silesia. 
Pleurodus, n. g., of doubtful position, for teeth bearing some resem- 
blance to those of Placodus. P. bicolor , n. sp., id. ibid. p. 220, Muschel- 
kalk of Silesia. 
RHYNCHOCEPHALIA. 
G. Baur criticises the nomenclature of certain bones of the skull of 
Ilatteria in the article on the Anatomy of Reptilia in Encycl. Brit., 
attributing this article to A. Gunther ; Zool. Anz. ix, p. 685. Gunther, 
t. c. p. 746, points out Baur’s mistake, protesting at the same time 
against the use of the name Sphenodon instead of Ilatteria. 
Halteria punctata. G. Baur has found vomerine teeth in a young 
specimen ; Zool. Anz. ix, p. 685. On the cervical ribs ; Baur, Am. Nat. 
xx, pp. 979-981. Note in reply to some criticism of Baur (Am. Nat. 
p. 466) relating to the above subject ; A. Fritsch, Am. Nat. xx, p. 736. 
On the intercentra : Cope, Am. Nat. xx, p. 175; Baur, t. c. p. 465. G. 
Baur remarks on the two ossa centralia in the carpus of Ilatteria ; Zool. 
Anz. ix, p. 188 : also on the presence of hypapophysis ^intercentra) be- 
tween all the vertebrae ; t. c. p. 190. Baur also writes on the vertebral 
column and the columella (epipterygoid) of Hatteria ; Am. Nat. xx, 
pp. 733-738. Notes on habits ; A. Reischek, Tr. N. Z. Inst, xviii, 
pp. 108-110. Sphenodon diversum , n. sp., for some bones from Hawke’s 
Bay, New Zealand ; W. Colenso, Tr. N. Z. Inst, xviii, p. 118. 
# Lemoine, Y. Nouvelle note sur le genre Simcedosaure de la faune 
cernaysienne des environs de Reims, A propos de r^centes publica- 
tions de MM. Cope et Dollo sur le genre Champsosaure. Reims : 
1885, 8vo, 16 pp. 
Ohampsosaurus , Cope (foss.). Further discussion between Lemoine 
and Dollo: Rev. Quest. Sci. xix, pp. 189-192. On Simcedosaurus- re- 
mains from the Lower Eocene of Sizanne, France : Lemoine, Bull. Soc. 
g6ol. (3) xi, pp. 21-32. 
LACERTILIA. 
Anderson, R. J. On the so-called Pelvisternum of certain Vertebrates* 
P. Z. S. 1886, pp. 163-165. 
Contains notes on the pelvis of some Lacertilia. 
