LACERTILIA, OPHIDIA. 
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CHAMiELEONTIDiE. 
G . Baur, Zool. Auz. ix, pp. 685 & 686, has some remarks on the 
osteology of the Chamooloons, viz., on the presence of a proatlas in 
Chamceleon vulgaris ; on the stipratemporal, which is the bone named 
parietal by Parker and epiotic by Dollo ; and on the pelvic arch, the 
cartilaginous part homodynamic of the suprascapula receiving the name 
of suprailium. 
Cliamcdeon calcarifer, Ptrs., occurs near Aden ; Yerbury, P. Z. S. 1885, 
pp. 717 & 833. 
MoSASAURIDJi). 
Mosasaurus. On remains from the Chalk of the Baltic coast of Ger- 
many and from Sweden ; Schroder, JB. Preuss. geol. Landes- Anstalt, 
1884 [1885], pp. 324-327. M. scanicus , n. sp., id. t. c. p. 328, Chalk of 
Sweden. 
Leiodon lundgreni , n. sp., id. t. c. p. 329, pi. xvii, fig. 9, Chalk of 
Sweden. 
OPHIDIA. 
Cope, E. D. An Analytical Table of the Genera of Snakes. P. Am. 
Phil. Soc. xxiii, pp. 479-499. 
The arrangement of the families and higher groups is, with slight 
modification, that published by the author in 1864. 
Caulsson, A. Die Extremitatenreste bei einigen Schlangen. Abstract 
in Anat. Anz. i, p. 189. 
Remains of a shoulder-musculature are found in a few Snakes. 
Lockington remarks on the shape of the pupil in Snakes. P. Ac. 
Philad. 1886, p. 300. 
Richards, Y. The Land-Marks of Snake-Poison Literature, being a 
Review of the more important Researches into the Nature of Snake- 
Poisons. Calcutta : 1885, 16mo, 176 pp. 
Wolfenden, R. N. On the Nature and Action of the Venom of 
Poisonous Suakes. I. The Venom of the Indian Cobra ( Naja tri- 
pudians ). J. Physiol, vii, pp. 327-356. n. A Note upon the Venom 
of the Iudian Viper (. Daboia, russellii). T. c. pp. 357-364. 
. On “ Cobric Acid,” a so-called Constituent of Cobra Venom. T. c. 
pp. 365-370. 
On the rearing of Snakes’ eggs ; »T. v. Fischer, Zool. Gart. xxvii, 
pp. 299-302. 
Uropeltidje. 
R. H. Beddome, Ann. N. H. (5) xvii, pp. 3-33, publishes an account 
of the Snakes of this family, of which 39 species are distinguished, 3 
