42 Re.pt. 
IV. KEPTILU AND BATBACHIA. 
CAUDATA. 
L. Camerano confirms Wilder’s discovery of the total absence of lungs, 
trachaea, and larynx in Spelerpes, his observations being based upon 
the European S. fuscus, Gene. In Salamandrina perspicillata, Savi, 
he finds the pulmonary apparatus to be in a rudimentary con- 
dition. Atti Acc. Torino, xxix, 1894, pp. 705-724, figg.; Boll. Mus. 
Torino, ix, 1894, No. 178, 8 pp., and Anat. Anz. ix, 1894, 
pp. 676-678. 
H. H. Field, Anat. Anz. ix, 1894, p. 471, makes a correction to his 
previous communication on the circulation in the head of the 
Axolotl. 
P. A. Fish, J. Morphol. x, 1895, pp. 231-286, pis. xiii-xvi, describes the 
central nervous system of Desmognathm fuscus. 
On the form and relations of the nerve cells and fibres in Desmognathus 
fuscus ; P. A. Fish, Anat. Anz. ix. 1894, pp. 754-758, figg. 
0. Drasch, Arch. Anat. 1894, pp. 225-268, pis. xii-xv, describes the 
structure of the poison-glands of Salamandra maculosa . 
On the blood of Salamandra maculosa and its antitoxic properties 
towards curare ; Phisalix & Conte jean, C.R. Ac. Sci. xix, 1894, 
pp. 434-436. 
A. B. Griffiths, C.R. Ac. Sci. xix, 1894, p. 912, investigates the red 
pigment of Molge ( Diemyctylus ) virklescens , Raf., which he pro- 
nounces as probably of excretory nature and for which the name 
“ Diemyctyline ” is proposed. 
On supernumerary digits in the reproduced limbs of Newts ; Piana, 
Ric. Labr. Anat. norm. Roma, iv, 1894, p. 65. — Barfurth, Arch. 
Entwicklungsmech. i. 1894, pp. 91-116, pi. v. 
Eycleshymer, J. Morphol. x, 1895, pp. 343-418, pis. xviii-xxii, investi- 
gates the early development of Amblystoma. 
On the development of the urogenital apparatus of Urodeles ; A. v. Zur 
Muhlen, Inaug. Diss., Jurjew : 1894, 8vo, 63 pp., 1 pi. 
On the development of the excretory organs in Amphiuma ; H. H. Field, 
C.R. Ac. Sci. cxviii, 1894, pp. 1221-1224. 
- On the development of the Mullerian ducts in the Axolotl ; G. Wilson, 
Anat. Anz. ix, 1894, pp. 736-745, figg. 
On the histological structure of the enteron of Necturus maculatus ; 
Kingsbury, P. Amer. Soc. Micr. xvi, 1894, pp. 19-64, 8 pis. 
On the development of the ectoderm in Necturus ; Julia B. Platt, 
Arch. mikr. Anat. xliii, 1894, pp. 911-966, pis. xxxvii-xlii. 
On the origin of pigment in the skin of the larvae of tailed Batrachians ; 
H. Rabl, Anat. Anz. x, 1894, pp. 12-17, fig. 
On cleavage and orientation of the Newt’s egg; Y. v. Ebner, Jena: 
1894, 4to, 26 pp., 2 pis. 
On spermatogenesis in Salamandra ; Meves, Arch. mikr. Anat. xliv, 
1894, pp. 119-184, pis. vii-xi ; Ravitz, t. c. 1895, pp. 555-578, 
pi. xxxiii. 
