20 Rept, 
REPTILIA AND BATRACHIA. 
PLEURODIRA. 
G. Baur, Am. Nat. xxiv, p. 483, diagnoses the genera Podocnemis, 
Wagl., Peltocephalus , D. & B., and Erymnochelys, Baur. 
Sternothcerusy Bell : note on some young specimens from the Lower 
Congo ; Vaillant, Bull. Soc. Philom. (8) ii, p. 171. 
Poclocnemis madagascariensis , Grand., figured by Straucjii, Mem. Ac. 
Petersb. (7) xxxviii, No. 2, pis. i, figs. 1-3, & iii, fig. 1. P. tracaxa, Spix : 
skull figured ; id. t. c. pis. ii, figs. 1-4, & iii, fig. 2. 
Hydraspis , Bell, and Rhinemys y Wagl. : remarks by Baur, Am. Nat. 
xxiv, p. 484. 
Chelys boulengeri , n. sp., id. t. c. p. 9G8 [= C. fimbriatay Schn. — R ec.]. 
Chelodina rugosa, n. sp., Douglas-Ogilry, Rec. Austral. Mus. i, p. 5G, 
pi. vii, Cape York [= C. oblonga , Gray. — Rec.]. 
GarettochelySy Rams. : G. Baur, Am. Nat. xxiii, p. 1017 [1890], 
expresses his doubts as to the correctness of placing this genus among the 
Pleuroclira. 
Miolania platycepSy Ow. (foss.) : notes on romains from Lord IIowo 
Island, and from the Pliocono Deep Lead at Canadian, near Gulgong, 
N. S. Wales; R. Etheridge, Jun., Rec. Gool. Surv. N.S.W. i, p. 149, 
pis. xxv & xxvi. 
Cryptodiran affinities, with the entire external surface of the skull elabo- 
rately sculptured. G. ornatuSy n. sp. (foss.), Marsh, Am. Journ. (3) xl, 
p. 177, pi. vii, fig. 1, Upper Jurassic, Wyoming. 
Adocus punctatus, n. sp. (foss.), id. t. c. p. 178, pi. vii, fig. 3, Cretaceous 
of New Jersey. 
Malacoclemmys geographica, Les., and M. lesueuriiy Gray : on the 
differences between the two species ; Garman, Bull. Ess. Inst, xxii, p. 70, 
pi. ii. M. oculifera , p. 262, and Jcohnii , p. 2G3, n. spp., Baur, Science, 
xv, Louisiana and Florida. 
DirochelySy Ag., is held to be a valid genus by Baur, Am. Nat. 
xxiii, p. 1099 [1890], who regards Emys blandingiiy Holbr., as its nearest 
ally. 
Cistudo portisii , p. 5, pis. i-v, and hunziy p. 13, pis. vi-ix, n. spp. (foss.), 
Golliez & Lugeon, Abh. Schw. pal. Ges. xvi [1889], No. 2, Molasse 
of Lausanne, Switzerland. [Probably belong to Ptychogaster, Pome! . — 
Rec.] 
Ptychogaster rotandiformis, n. sp. (foss.), lid. t. c. p. 18, pis. x-xiii, Molasse 
of Lausanne, Switzerland. 
Homopusy D. & B. : note on the secondary sexual characters ; Bou- 
lenger, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 521. 
Testndo, L. : G. Baur, Am. Nat. xxiii, pp. 1039-1057 [1890], writes on 
the gigantic Tortoises of the Galapagos Islands. T. elegans , Schoepff, 
CRYPTODIRA. 
i, n. g., type of a new family, Glyptopsidce, apparently of 
