28 Rept. 
REPTILIA AND BATRACHIA. 
STEGOCEPHALA. 
Ammon, L. von. Die permischen Amphibien der Rheinpfalz. Munich : 
1889, 4to, 119 pp., 5 pis. 
This work is prefaced by a bibliographical list of all the contributions 
to the knowledge of the Stegocephala. 
Credner, H. Die Stegocephalen und Saurier aus dem Rothliegenden 
des Plauen’schen Grundes bei Dresden, ix. Theil. Z. geol. Ges. 
xlii, pp. 240-277, pis. ix-xi. 
Deals with Hylonomus , Dawson, Petrobates, Credn., and Discosaurus , 
Credn. 
M. Loiiest, Bull. Soc. Belg. G6ol. 1888, p. cxx, records the discovery 
of Stegacephalous remains in the Upper Devonian nearModave, Belgium. 
Mastodonsaurus indicus , n. sp., Lydekker, Cat. iv, p. 145, Gondwanas, 
India. 
J Metoposaurus, n. n. for Metopias, II. v. Mey. nec Gory ; id. t. c. p. 152. 
* Orthopleurosauras , n. n. for Orthocosta, Fritsch ; id. t. c. p. 203. 
Dawsonia multidens , n. n. for D. poly dens, Fritsch ; id. t. c. p. 213. 
Branchiosaurus caducus , n. sp., v. Ammon, t. c. p. 81, pi. iv, fig. 1, & 
pi. v, figs. 9 & 10, Permian of Pfarrwald, near Heimkirchen. 
Maqromerium gumbeli , n. sp., v. Ammon, t. c. p. 94, pi. iv, fig. 2, Permian 
of Wolfstein. 
M. scoticum , n. sp., I/ydekker, Q. J. Geol. Soc. xlvi, p. 289, pi. xii, 
fig. 1, Lower Carboniferous of Gilmerton, near Edinburgh. 
Eryops oweni, n. sp., id. t. c. p. 291, pi. xii, figs. 2-4. Name changed to 
E. africanus , id. Cat. iv, p. 193, S. Africa. 
Loxomma allmanni, Huxley : on a series of vertebrae from the North- 
umberland Coal-field ; D. Embleton, Rep. Brit. Ass. lix, p. 580. 
^ Platyoposaurus, n. n. for Platyops , Twelvetr., nec Newp. ; Lydekker, 
Cat. iv, p. 182. 
