OPHIDIA. 
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in. Acacophidia. 
Colubridcc ( Dipsadince , Scijtalince , Dendrophince , Natricincc, Colu - 
brince, Coronellince , Calamarince). 
iy. Toxicopiiidia. 
1. Proteroglypha. 2. Solenoglypha. 
A. Conocerca . a. Bothrophcra. 
Elapidce. Crotalidce. 
B. Platycerca. 
Hydropliidoc. 
Albrecht, P. Note sur une h^mivertebre gauche surnumeraire de 
Python sebce , Dum. Bull. Mus. Belg. ii. pp. 21-34, pi. ii. figs. 1-4. 
Blanchard, R. Nouvelles recherches sur le peritoine du Python de 
Seba. Bull. Soc. Z. Fr. 1882, pp. 237-243. 
Lussana, P. Sur le Cerveau du Boa ; Considerations sur la Neuro- 
physiologic compare. Arch. Ital. Biol. iv. pp. 283-286. 
Abstract of a forthcoming memoir. 
On ways in which the increase of Snakes is kept within moderate 
limits ; G. H. R. Fisk, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 32. 
How Snakes approach and swallow their prey ; B. Horsford, Am. Nat. 
xvii. p. 896. 
Do Snakes shelter their young in their throats ? C. C. Hopley, J. Sci. 
(3) v. p. 365 ; J. Simpson, l. c. p. 473. 
Typhlopimi. 
Typhlops syriacus , Jan, described and figured by Lortet, Arch. Mus. 
Lyon, iii. p. 183, pi. xix. fig. 1. 
Typhlops reuteri, sp. n., Bottger, Zool. Anz. iv. [1881] p. 650, Nossi B4 
[omitted from Zool. Rec. xviii.]. 
Typhlops wilderi, sp. n., Garman, Science Observer, iv. p. 48, Sao 
Cyriaco, Brazil. 
Typhlops ( Idiotyphlops ) emunctus, sp. n., Garman, Mem. Mus. C. Z. ii. 
p. 3, Central America. 
STENOSTOMAim®. 
Stenostoma tenuiculum, p. 5, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, myopicum , p. 6, 
Tampico, Mexico, and rubellum , p. 130, Texas, spp. nn., Garman, Mem. 
Mus. C. Z. ii. 
Boid^i. 
Boa constrictor var. n. isthmica, Garman, Mem. Mus. C. Z. ii. p. 9, 
Central America. 
Pal^ophiidjs. 
Palceophis oweni, sp. n. (foss.), Zigno, Mem. 1st. Yenet. xxi. p. 3, pl.x\. 
figs. 9-12, Eocene of Yenetia. 
