16 Eept. 
IV. REPTILIA AND BATRACHIA. 
On the first rudiments of* the allantois in Reptiles; H. K. Corning, 
Morphol. Jahrb. xxiii, pp. 375-390, pi. xxv. 
On the suprarenal capsules and the suprarenal portal circulation in Rep- 
tiles ; A. Pettit, Bull. Soc. zool. France, xx, pp. 233-237. 
On the development of the anterior extremity of the notochord in Rep- 
tiles ; Saint-R£my, Arch. Biol, xiv, pp. 23-32, pi. ii. 
On the development of the lingual musculature in Reptiles ; Corning, 
Yerh. Anat. Ges. ix, pp. 165-175, figg. 
On the relation of the asymmetrical tail to the mode of locomotion . in 
aquatic Reptiles ; Ahlborn, Zeitschr. wiss. Zool. lx, pp. 1-15, pli i. 
SQUAMATA. 
Cope remarks on the temporal part of the skull in the Squamata , and 
on the morphology of the skull in the Mosasaurs, and characterizes 
the three suborders Lacertilia , Pythonomorpha, and Ophidia. 
Amer. Natural, xxix, pp. 855-859, pi. xxxi, and pp. 1003-1005. 
Criticism of Cope’s views by Baur, t. c. pp. 998-1002, and Boulenger, 
Ann. Nat. Hist. (6) xvi, p. 366, fig. 
O. Grosser & E. Brezina, Morphol. Jahrb. xxiii, pp. 289-325, pis. xx & 
xxi, investigate the development of the veins of the head and neck 
in Lizards and Snakes. 
On the changes in colour in Chameleons and certain Lizards ; R. Keller, 
Arch. Physiol, lxi, pp. 123-168, figg., pi. iv. 
LACERTILIA. 
On the axial- and limb-skeleton in the Scincidce , Anguidce , and Gerrjio - 
sauridce ; Siebenrock, Ann. Hofmus. Wien, x, pp. 17-41, pi. iii. 
On the early development of Chalcides tridactylus j F. Todaro, Atti 
Acc. Lincei (4) vii, pp. 233-247, 1 pi. 
On gastrulation in Lacerta ; L. Will, SB. Ak. Berlin, 1895, pp. 335-341, 
and Zool. Jahrb. Anat. ix, pp. 1-91, figg. 
On starvation in Lizards ; G. Manca, Giorn. Acc. Medic. Torino, lviii, 
No. 1, and Arch. ital. Biol, xxiii, pp. 243-251. 
Geckonid^. 
Stenodactylus guttatus, Cuv. : prseanal pores are sometimes present ; An- 
derson, P. Zool. Soc. London, 1895, p. 643. 
Ceramodactylus damatus , n. sp., Lucas & Frost, P. Soc. Victoria (2) viii, 
p. — , Central Australia. 
Gymnodactylus caspius , Eichw. : notes by Zander, Zool. Garten, xxxvi, 
p. 373. G. mattogrossensis , n. sp., Berg, An. Mus. Buenos Aires, iv, 
p. 191, Matto Grosso. G. africanus , n. sp., Werner, Yerh. Ges. 
Wien, xlv, p. 190, pi. v, fig. 5, Usambara, E. Africa : is a Gonatodes ; 
Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) xvi, p. 173. 
