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REPTILIA AND BATRACHIA. 
BY 
G. A. Boulenger. 
GENERAL. 
H. Allen has a noto on the Spinal Chord of Batrachia and Reptilia ; 
P. Ac. Philad. 1883, p. 5G. 
0. Bottger reports on new or interesting Reptiles in the collection of 
the Heidelberg University ; Ber. olfenb. Ver. 1883, pp. 147-152. 
Hertwig, O. Die Entwicklung des mittleren Keimblattes der Wirbel- 
tliiere. Jen. Z. Nat. xvi. Das mittlere Keimblatt der Amjihibien, 
b. Rana temporaria , pp. 247-28G, pis. xiv.-xvii. Das mittlere Keim- 
blatt der Reptilien, pp. 290-292. 
FAUNAE. 
Europe. 
LeyDig, F. Ueber die einheimischen Schlangen. Zoologische und anato- 
mische Bemerkungen. Abh. senck. Ges. xiii. pp. 167-220, pis. i. & ii. 
This contribution, which completes the series published by the same 
author on the Reptiles and Batrachians of Germany, is divided into 
two parts: — 1. Zoological remarks, in which the author treats of the six 
species indigenous to that country, remarking that Vipera ammodytes is 
to bo excluded from the fauna, and that the occurrence of Zamenis 
viridijlavu8 is doubtful ; 2, Anatomical remarks. 
Kolombatovic, G. Mammiferi, Rettili, ed Anfibi della Dalmazia. 
Spalato : 1882, 8vo. 
[Not seen by Recorder.] 
Betta, E. de. Terza serie di note erpetologiche per servire alio studio 
dei Rettili ed Anfibi d’ltalia. Atti 1st. Yenet. (7) i. pp. 919-951. 
Bedriaga, J. v. Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Ampliibien und Reptilien 
der Fauna von Corsika. Arch. f. Nat. (2) xlix. pp. 124-273, 
pis. iii.-v. 
In a first chapter, the species collected by the author himself are 
