18 Rept. 
IV. KEPT! LI A AND BATRACII1A. 
Mexico and Central America. F. Bocourt brings out the 13th fascicle 
of his Etudes sur les Reptiles, Mission Scientifique au Mexiquo et dans 
l’Am^rique Centrale, iii (Paris : 1893, 4to, pp. 733-780, pis. lii-lvii), con- 
taining the continuation of the Ophidia. — A. Gunther, in Biplogia 
Oeutrali-Americana, pp. 81-128, pis. xxxi-xli, concludes the list of the 
Lizards, and proceeds with the Snakes.— On a collection from Mt. 
Orizaba ; W. S. Blatchley, P. U. S. Mus. xvi, 1893, pp. 37-42. 
Venezuela. On Reptiles and Batrachians ; Biettger, Ber. Senckenberg 
Ges. 1893, pp. 35-42. 
Paraguay. List of Reptiles and Batrachians ; Boulenger, Ann. Nat. 
Hist. (6) xiii, 1894, pp. 342-348. 
Australia. 
Central Australia. On the Reptiles and Batrachians collected by the 
Elder Exploring Expedition ; Stirling & Zietz, Tr. R. Soc. S. Austral, 
xvi, 1893, pp. 159-176, pis. vi & vii. 
Victoria. On the Lizards; A. H. S. Lucas, P. Soc. Victoria (2) vi, 
1894, pp. 24-92, pi. ii. 
III. — REFERENCES, ARRANGED SYSTEMATICALLY. 
REPTILIA and batrachia. 
W. Haacke, “Die Schopfung der Tierwelt” (Leipzig and Vienna: 
1893, 8vo), deals with the evolution and distribution of Batrachians 
and Reptiles, pp. 382-401. 
On the terminology of the coracoid and precoracoid of Reptiles and 
Batrachians ; Howes, P. Zool. Soc. London, 1893, pp. 585-587. 
On ribs and similar elements and their nomenclature ; Baur, Anat. 
Anz. ix, 1893, pp. 116-120. 
On the hsemapophyses ; Boulenger, Ann. Nat. Hist. (6) xii, 1893. 
pp. 60 & 61. 
On the notochord and its relation to the vertebral column in the caudal 
extremity ; V. Schmidt, SB. Ges. Dorpat, x, 1893, pp. 142-152. 
On the brain of Reptiles and Batrachians ; F. K. Studnicka, Anat. Anz. ix, 
1894, pp. 307-320, 2 pis. : R. Burckhardt, t. c. pp. 320-324, figg. 
On the formation of the germinal layers in Vertebrata ; Translation of 
Lwoff’s paper in Ann. Nat. Hist. (6) xi, 1893, pp. 360-377. 
On examples of adaptive convergence in Reptiles and Batrachians ; 
F. Werner, Biol. Centralbl. xiii, 1893, pp. 471-476 & 571-576, and 
xiv, 1894, pp. 166-169. 
The same author, Verb. Ges. Wien, xliii, 1893, SB. pp. 4-6, remarks 
on albinism and melanism in Reptiles and Batrachians, and, Zool. 
Jahrb. Syst. vii, 1893, pp. 365-382, pis. xiv & xv, continues his 
studies on the markings of Reptiles and Batrachians. 
