REPTILIA AND BATRACHIA. 
8 Rept. 
LutJcesaurus , g. n. [named in honour of Comte Lfitke !], for remains of 
Thaumatosauria from the “ Sewerische Osteolithe” of Kursk; Kiprijanoff, 
l. c. p. 35, pis. iii. fig. 3, xi. fig. 3, xv. fig. 2, & xvii.-xxi. 
R. Owen writes on generic characters in the Order Sauropterygia, and 
figures diagrammatic restorations of the sternal apparatus of Plesiosaurus 
and Pliosaurus ; J. G . Soc. xxxix. pp. 133-138, woodcuts. 
J. W. Hulke discusses the characters of the shoulder-girdle and limbs of 
Ichthyosauria and Plesiosauria , and remarks on our present state of know- 
ledge regarding these extinct reptiles ; op. cit. pp. (44)- (60), woodcuts. 
Plesiosaurus costatus , Owen. H. E. Sauvage, Ann. Sci. geol. xiv. Art. 3, 
p. 24, pi. vi. fig. 5, describes and figures cervical vertebrae from the lthaetic 
beds of La Coudre and Antully, France. 
Plesiosaurus bitractensis , sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 20, pis. viii. fig. 5, & ix. 
figs. 1 & 2, Rhaetic beds of Antully and La Coudre. 
ICHTHYOSAURIA. 
See Hulke, supra. 
Ichthyosaurus rheticus , Sauvg., p. 14, pis. viii. fig. 4, & ix. fig. 3, and 
carinatus , Sauvg., p. 17, pis. vii. fig. 1, viii. figs. 1-3, & ix. fig. 4, described 
by Sauvage, Ann. Sci. geol. xiv. Art. 3. 
CROCODILIA. 
L. Dollo, in a “ Premiere Note sur les Crocodiliens de Bernissart ” 
(Bull. Mus. Belg. ii. pp. 309-338), discusses the systematic arrangement 
of the Crocoailians, recent and fossil, and adopts the following classifi- 
cation, a slight modification of Huxley’s: — 
Suborder I. Parasuchia. 
„ ii. Mesosuchia. 
1, Teleosaurulce ; 2, Goniopholidce ; 3, Bernissartidoi 
(fam. n.). 
„ ill. Eusuchia. . ^ 
1, Gavialidcc ; 2, Crocodilidai ; 3, Alligator idee. 
Parker, W. K. On the Structure and Development of the Skull in 
the Crocodilia. Tr. Z. S. xi. pp. 263-310, pis. lxii.-lxxi. 
Kiprijanoff, W. Studien fiber die fossilen Reptilien Russlands. 
IV. Theil : Ordnung Crocodilia. Indeterminirte fossile Reptilien. 
Mem. P6tersb. (7) xxxi. No. 7, 29 pp., 7 pis. 
Contains, besides notes on the microscopical texture of the bones of 
Ichthyosaurus campylodon , Cart., p. 1, pi. ii., Polyptychodon interruptus , 
Ow., p. 4, pi. i. fig. 1, & v. fig. 1, and LutJcesaurus, Kiprij. [cf. supra'], 
pi. i. figs. 2 & 3, & v. fig. 2, description and figure of remains of 
Pcecilopleuron schmidti , sp. n., p. 9, pi. iv. figs. 1-5, & v. fig. 4, from the 
“Sewerische Osteolitho ,, of Kursk. The rest of the paper deals with 
unnamed remains. 
