CROCODILIA — LACERTILIA. 
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Tafani, A. Parcours et terminaison du lierf optique dans la ratine des 
Crocodiles ( Champsa Indus). Arch. Ital. Biol. iv. pp. 210-233, 1 pi. 
Diplocynodon rateli , Pomel. On a restoration of this Crocodilian ; 
Gaudry, C. R. xcvii. p. 1154. 
Goniopholis simus , Owen (foss.). A restoration given by Dollo, Bull. 
Mus. Belg. ii. p. 315, pi. xii. fig. 2, from specimens from the Wealden of 
Bernissart, Belgium. 
JBernissartia , g. n. (foss.). Type of a new family, from which pro- 
bably a part of the recent Crocodilians originated ; Dollo, l. c. p. 321. 
B.fagesi, sp. n., id. ibid. pi. xii. fig. 1, Wealden of Bernissart, Belgium. 
Crocodilus robustus , Yaill. & Grand. This second Madagascar croco- 
dile, which was described as fossil in 1871, has now been discovered alive, 
and is described by Vaillant, C. R. xcvii. p. 1081. 
RH YN CHOCBPHALI A. 
Albrecht, P. Note sur la presence d’un rudiment de proatlas sur un 
exemplaire de llatteria pundata } Gray. Bull. Mus. Belg. ii. 
pp. 185-194. pi. viii. figs. 1 & 2. 
LACERTILIA. 
Dollo, L. On the Malleus of the Lacertilia , and the Malar and Quad- 
rate Bones of Mammalia. Q. J. Micr. Sci. xxiii. pp. 579-596, 
pi. xii. 
Eimer, T. Ueber gesetzmassige Zeichnung der Reptilien, speciell der 
Eidechsen. JB. Ver. Wiirtt. 1882, pp. 114 & 115. 
[Omitted from the preceding Record.] 
Sarasin, C. F. Reifung und Furchung des Reptilieneies. Arb. Inst. 
Wiirzb. vi. pp. 159-216, pis. xii.-xv. [Lacerta agilis.] 
Strahl, H. Ueber Canalis neurentericus und Allantois bei Lacerta 
viridis. Arch. Anat. Phys. 1883, pp. 323-340, pi. xiv. 
. Die Entwicklungsvorgange am vorderen Ende der Embryonen 
von Lacerta agilis und vivipara. Zool. Anz. vi. pp. 17-19. 
. Uber friihe Entwicklungstadieu von Lacerta agilis. L. c. pp. 
347-350. 
Weldon, W. F. R. Note on the Early Development of Lacerta muralis. 
Q. J. Micr. Sci. xxiii. pp. 134-144, pis. iv.-vi. 
Geckonim:. 
G. A. Boulenger, Ann. N. H. (5) xii. p. 308, proposes to cancel the 
suborder Nyctisaura. 
J. v. Fischer has notes on the shedding of the skin in Geckos. Zool. 
Gart. xxiv. pp. 147-150. 
Rhacodactylus , Fitz. Under this name, Boulenger, P. Z. S. 1883, 
p. 123, proposes to unite Correlophus , Guich., Ceratolophvs y Bocage, and 
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