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REPTILIA AND BATRACHIA. 
ENGYSTOMATIDiE. 
Engystoma pictiventre, n. sp., Cope, P. Am. Phil. Soc. xxiii, p. 272, 
Nicaragua. 
Cystignathidac. 
Lithodytes bi'ansfordii, p. 274, and ranoules, p. 275, n. spp., Cope, P. 
Am. Phil. Soc. xxiii, Nicaragua. Uylodes polyptychus , n. sp., id. t. c. 
p. 276, Nicaragua ; FI. vertebralis , n. sp., Boulenger, P. Z. S. 1886, p. 415, 
Intac, Ecuador. 
BuFONIDiE. 
Bufo. On the dentiform processes on the palatine bone in certain 
species ; Heron-Royer, Bull. Soc. Z. Fr. xi, pp. 324-327, fig. A synonymic 
list of the North American species, by E. D. Cope, P. Am. Phil. Soc. xxiii, 
pp. 514-516. B. hemiophrys , n. sp., id. t. c. p. 515, Montana. 
Hylid.®. 
Flyla macrops , Blgr., p. 59, pi. xi, fig. 3, and thesaurensis , Ptrs., p. 60, 
pi. xi, fig. 4, described and figured ; Boulenger, Tr. Z. S. xii. II. guen- 
t fieri , n. n. for II. leucotceniu , Gthr., nec Burin. ; Boulenger, Ann. N. H. 
(5) xviii, p. 445. II. favosa , n. sp., Cope, P. Am. Phil. Soc. xxiii, p. 95, 
Pebas, Upper Amazon. Ilypsiboas miliar is, n. sp., Cope, t. c. p. 272, 
Nicaragua. Hyla quinquevittata , id. t. c. p. 273, Nicaragua. II. micro - 
cephala , n. sp., id. t. c. p. 281, Chiriqui. 
Phyllomedusa iheringii , Blgr. H. v. Ihering describes the ovipositiou 
of this tree-frog : the eggs are laid in the open air on trees, between 
leaves hanging over the water, into which the larvae ultimately drop ; 
Ann. N. H. (5) xvii, p. 461, fig. 
Pelobatida 1 . 
Heron-Royer, — . Notices sur les moeurs des Batraciens (suite). Bull. 
Soc. Angers, xv, pp. 61-111. 
On the species of Pelobates and Pelodytes. 
Pelobates fuscus, Laur. Leydig remarks that Ruscoui was the first 
discoverer of this Batrachian in Italy ; Zool. Anz. ix, p. 291. Note on 
the same subject by Camerano, Boll. Mus. Tor. i, No. 9. 
Pelodytes punctatus , Daud. On its occurrence in Piedmont (Castino) ; 
Peracca, Boll. Mus. Tor. i, No. 1. 
Megalophrys longipes , n. sp., Boulenger, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 850, pi. lv, 
Perak. 
Palceobatrachus , Tscli. (foss.). W. Wolterstorff, JB. Naturw. Ver. 
Magdeburg, 1886 (separate copy, 81 pp., 6 pis.), publishes extensive 
notes upon numerous species of this genus, some both in the larval and 
adult state. P.fritschii, p. 51, Brown Coal of Kaltennordheim, Rhon, 
and luedeckei , p. 67, Brown Coal of Markersdorf, Bohemia, and Zittau, 
in Saxony, n. spp., id. t. c. 
