22 Rept. 
REPTILIA AND BATRACHIA. 
Klaussner, F. Das Riickenmark des Proteus anguinus : eine histiolo- 
gische Studie. Abh. bayr. Akad. xiv. pp. 141-174, pis. i. & ii. 
J. Kollmann has a paper on hibernation in the larvae of Frogs and 
Newts, and on the metamorphoses of the Axolotl ; Rec. Zool. Suisse, i, 
pp. 75-89. 
Lampert, K. Zur Genese der Chorda dorsalis beim Axolotl. Inaug.- 
Diss. Erlangen, 1883, 8vo, 23 pp., 1 pi. 
[Not seen by Recorder.] 
Lessona, M. Contributo alio Studio della Pelle degli Urodeli. Mem. 
Acc. Tor. (2)‘xxxiv. pp. 125-136, pis. i. & ii. 
These researches are based upon Salamandrina , Euproctus , and Spe- 
lerpes. 
Osborn, H. F. Preliminary Observations upon the Brain of Amphiuma. 
P. Ac. Philad. 1883, pp. 177-185, pi. viii. 
Salamandra maculosa , Laur. Bedriaga, Arch. f. Nat. (2) xlix. fig. 245, 
regards S. Corsica, Savi, as a slight variety of this species, whereas the 
Algerian form is stated to be more differentiated, the name var. algira 
being proposed for the latter; the typical form would be called var. 
curopoca. 
Molge vulgaris , L. Bedriaga makes remarks upon specimens from 
Greece, originally referred to M. palmata , and now believed to represent 
a new form allied to M. vulgaris and palmata ; Zool. Anz. vi. p. 218. 
[This form the Recorder has already identified, from a specimen collected 
by Bedriaga, with M. vulgaris var. meridionalis.] 
Molge montana and M. rusconii. Note by De Betta, Atti 1st. Yenet. 
(7) i. p. 944. 
Megapterna montana, Savi, extensively described and figured, and its 
systematic position discussed, by Bedriaga, Arch. f. Nat. (2) xlix. p. 127, 
pis. iii.-v. Molge rusconii and aspera also described and discussed in 
connection with M. montana. 
Hynobius lichenatus , sp. n., Boulenger, Ann. N. H. (5) xii. p. 165, pi. v. 
fig. 1, Japan. 
Amblystoma tigrinum. M. v. Chauvin has notes on the reproduction 
of the Axolotl ; Zool. Anz. vi. pp. 513-515. Various stages of the 
Axolotl figured by Brocchi, Miss. Sc. Mex.“J5aO\ pis. xvii. & xvii .bis. 
Amblystoma epixanthum , sp. n., Cope, P. Ac. Philad. 1883, p. 16, Atlanta, 
Idaho. 
Plethodon iecanus [after Mt. Ieka], sp. n., icl. 1. c. p. 24, N. California. 
Spelerpes leprosus , Cope, pi. xix. figs. 1 & 2, belli, Gray, pi. xx.bis, 
figs. 1-3, mexicanus, D. B., pi. xviii.bis, figs. 1-4, salvini, Gray, pi. xviii. 
figs. 3 & 4, and vermicularis , Gray, pi. xx. fig. 1, figured by Brocchi, l. c. 
Spelerpes laticeps, p. 110, pi. xviii. fig. 1, Vera Cruz, bocourti, p. Ill, 
pi. xviii. fig. 2, rostratum\_-tus~\ , p. 112, W. Guatemala, sulcatum [-tus], 
p. 112, pi. xx. fig. 2, Mexico, punctatum [-<«s], p. 115, Mexico, attitlanensis, 
p. 115, pi. xix. figs. 3 & 4, Attitlau, and ma[e] lleri, p. 116, pi. xx. figs. 3-5, 
Vera Paz, spp. nn., id. I . c. 
