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Bufo calamita. On its absence from Italy ; De Betta, Atti 1st. Venet, 
(7) i. p. 941. 
Bufo mauritanicus , Schleg. On its habits in captivity ; J. v. Fischer, 
Zool. Gart. xxiv. pp. 43-45. 
Bufo bocourti, Brocchi, fig. 1, and punctatus , B. & G., figured by 
Brocchi, Miss. Sc. Mex. Batr. pi. vii. 
Bufo punctatus , Bd. & Gir. (= B. beldingi , Yarrow), described by 
Boulenger, Ann. N. H. (5) xi. p. 19. 
Bufo formosus , Boulenger, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 140, pi. xxiii., Japan, and 
andcrsoniy id. Ann. N. H. (5) xii. p. 163, N.W. India, spp. nn. 
HYLID2E. 
Ilyla cccrulea , White. On its habits in captivity ; J. v. Fischer, Zool. 
Gart. xxiv. pp. 21-25. 
Hyla amboinensis , p. 239, Amboyna and Misol, genimaculata , p. 240, 
Gebeh (Gagy ?), bernsteini , p. 241, Salawatty and Gagy, and aruensis , 
p. 242, Aru and Misol, spp. nn., Horst, Notes Leyd. Mus. v. 
Hijla glandulosa , Guatemala, and macrops , Solomon Islands, spp. nn., 
Boulenger, Ann. N. H. (5) xii. p. 164. 
PELOBATIDiE. 
Scaphiopus inter montanus, sp. n., Cope, P. Ac. Philad. 1883, p. 15, 
Utah. 
DlSCOGLOSSIDiE. 
A lytes obstetricans, Laur. Pfliiger describes the full-grown larva and 
its later development ; Arch. ges. Phys. xxix. [1882] pp. 78-88. H£ron- 
Royer describes the external embryonary characters up to the eclosion of 
the larva ; Bull. Soc. Zool. viii. pp. 417-436, pi. xiii. 
InCERTjE sedis. 
Thcloderma leprosa [-swm], Tschudi. R. Horst has a note on this Ba- 
tracliian, which he describes from one of the typo specimens (the other, 
ho thinks, should be referred to NedopJmyne[ I]) ; the author, howover, does 
not give any indication as to the affinities of the genus Theloderma : 
Notes Leyd. Mus. v. p. 237. 
CAUDATA. 
Capparelli, — . Recherches sur le venin du Triton cristatus. Arch. 
Ital. Biol. iv. pp. 72-80. 
E. D. Cope gives in a synopsis the distinctive characters, taken from 
the structure of the gills, of several branchiate forms of North America ; 
P. Ac. Philad. 1883, p. 24. 
Dowdeswell, G. F. Note on a Minute Point in the Structure of the 
Spermatozoon of the Newt. Q. J. Micr. Sci. xxiii. pp. 336-339. 
