OPBIDIA. 
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On the anal pockets of Snakes ; Portier, C.R. cxviii, 1894, pp. 662 & 663. 
On the development of the pancreas in Ophklia ; Saint-Remy, op. cit. 
xvii, pp. 405 & 406. 
On the toxic properties of the blood of the Viper {Viper a aspis , L.) ; 
Phisalix & Bertrand, t. c. p. 1099, and O.R. Soc. Biol. (9) v, 
1893, pp. 996-999. The same authors also write on the presence of 
poison-glands in Tropidonotus, and on the toxic properties of the 
blood of these Snakes, O.R. cxviii, 1894, pp. 76-79, and Arch. Phys. 
norm. path. (5) vi, 1894, pp. 423-432. Remarks by S. Jourdain, 
C.R. cxviii, 1894, pp. 207 & 208. 
On self-inflicted bites in poisonous Snakes ; E. S. Holden, Nature, xlviii, 
1893, p. 342 ; E. Ray Lankester, t. c. p. 369 ; H. W. Wood, t. c. 
p. 391. 
On the reptatiou of Snakes on a smooth vertical surface ; BouGON, 
Naturaliste, xv, 1893, p. 188. 
On the constrictivo habit in Snakes ; Stradung, Science, xxi, 1893, 
pp. 228 & 229. 
H. Laciimann has a paper on the habits of Snakes in confinement, Zool. 
Gart. xxxiv, 1893, pp. 33-48, figg. 
TyPHLOPIDvE. 
Typhlops curtus , Og. [= ligatus , Ptr3.] : note by Waite, Rec. Austral. 
Mus. ii, 1893, p. 57. T. rueppelli , Jan., is regarded as distinct from T. 
nigrescens , Gray ; id. t. c. p. 59, pi. xv, figg. 5 & 6. T. proximus, 
n. sp., id. t. c. p. 60, pi. xv, figg. 1-4, New S. Wales and Victoria. 
T. boulengeri and liottcntotus, n. spp., Bocage, J. Sci. Lisb. (2) iii, 
1893, p. 117, Angola. T. praiocularis, p. 709, Congo Free State, and 
mandetisis, p. 725, I. of Manda, E. Africa, n. spp., Stejneger, 
P. U. S. Mus. xvi, 1894. T. bisubocular is, n. sp.. Bcettger, Zool. 
Anz. xvi, 1893, p. 336, Java. 
Boid;e. 
Boa constrictor , L., is ovoviviparous, G. B. Torossi, “ L’Embrione del 
Boa constrictor," Vicenza, 1893-4 ; L. Redon-Neyreneuf, Echange, 
ix, 1893, p. 53. 
UrOPELTIDjE. 
Rhinophis travancoricus , Blgr. : figured by Boulenger, J. Bombay 
Soc. vii, 1893, pi. 
COLUBRID^C. ^ 
Aglyphse . 
Lianthera , n. g., for Herpetodryas bernieri , D. & B. Cope, Amer. Natural, 
xxvii, 1893, p. 482. [= Dromicodryas , Blgr. — Rec.] 
