22 Kept. 
IV. REPTILIA AND BATRACHIA. 
The Peropoda are divided into 3 families: Boidce, Charinidce, Ungualidce ; 
the Aglyphodonta also into 3 : Xenopeltidce , Acrochordidce , Colubridce ; 
the Glyphodonta contain a single family : Dipsadidce ; the Protero- 
glypha contain 3 : Najidce, E lap idee, Dendraspididce ; and the Platy- 
cerca 1 : Hydrophidce. The Colubridce are divided into 8 subfamilies : 
Calamarhue , Xenodontince, Dromicince , Colubrince, Leptognathince , 
Anoplophallince, Lycodontince, Natricince ; and the Dipsadidce into 4 : 
Dipsadince t Scytalince, Erythrolamprince , Homalopsince. 
6. S. West, Rep. Brit. Ass. 1895, p. 737, remarks on the poison apparatus 
of opisthoglyphous Colubrines and Hydrophids. 
On Snake poison ; H. v. Ihering, Riv. Mus. Paul, i, pp. 195-206. 
M. Brunning brings out a book on the same subject (Stuttgart : 1895). 
Remarks by Werner, Biol. Contralbl. xv, p. 526. 
P. Werner has critical remarks on J. Zenneck’s paper on the markings 
of Tropidonotus natrix ; Biol. Centralbl. xv, pp. 345-347. 
Notes on the habits of various European Snakes in confinement ; Lach- 
mann, Zool. Garten, xxxvi, pp. 310-317, 343-350, & 360-367, figg. 
On exotic Snakes escaped in the Province Saxony ; Schnee, Zeitschr. 
Naturw. (5) vi, p. 269. 
Typhlopidac. 
On the eye of Typhlops yermicularis and T. braminus ; 0. Kohl, Bibl. 
Zool. v, pp. 231-240. 
Typhlops holtentotu8 , n. sp., Bocage, Herp. Ang. p. 69, Angola. T. somali- 
cus, n. sp., Boulenger, P.Zool. Soc. London, 1895, p.536, pi. xxx, 
fig. 1, W. Somaliland. 
BoiDiE. 
Python niolurus, L. : note on and figure of a specimen in the act of 
killing a monkey ; O. Channer, J. Bombay Soc. ix, p. 491, pi. 
P. anchielce, Bocage, figured by Bocage, Herp. Ang. pi. ix, fig. 1. 
Enygrus carinatus , Schn., and asper , Gthr. : notes by Merely, Termes. 
Fuzetek, xviii, pp. 132 & 133. 
Eryx jaculus, L. : notes by Zander, Zool. Garten, xxxvi, p. 329. 
CoLUBRIDiE. 
Aglyphse. 
Polyodontophis , Blgr. Henicognathus venustissimus , Gthr. ; figured by 
Gunther, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Rept., pi. li, fig. c. 
Tropidonotus fasciatus, L. and, tigrinus, Boie : notes on habits in con- 
finement ; Werner, Zool. Garten, xxxvi, p. 242. 
Eutcenia radix , B. & G., vagrans, B. & G., marciana, B. & G., megalops , 
Kenn., and macrostemma, Kenn.; described and figured by Bocourt, 
'Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept., pp. 781-788, pis. lviii & lix. 
