IV. REPTILIA AND BATRACHIA. 
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L, Rogers, P. R. S. lxxi, pp. 481-496, and lxxii, pp. 305-319, 419-423, has 
made experiments on the physiological action of Colubrine and 
Yiperine Snake venoms, and of the Hydrophids. 
G. Lamb & W. Hanna have observations on the poisons of Naia tripudians , 
Bungarus fasciatus , and Viper a russellii , Sci. Mem. India (2), Nos. 3, 
4, 7. 
P. W. Bassett & Smith’s contribution on Snake-bites in the Encyclo- 
paedia Medica, vol. xi, is reprinted in J. Bombay Soc. xv, pp. 112-124. 
D. Le Souef, Victorian Natural, xix, p. 137, ha3 notes on Snakes casting 
their skins in captivity. 
R. M. Dixon, Zoologist (4) vii, pp. 336 & 337, has made obversations on the 
casting of the epidermis in Indian Snakes. 
Typhlopidas. 
E. F. Muhse, Biol. Bull, v, pp. 262-270, figg., has studied the structure of 
the eyes of Typhlops lumbricalis. 
Typhlops, Schn, Synopsis of the American species, Werner, Zool. Anz. 
xxvi, p. 248; T. psittacus, sp. n., id. ibid., Mexico. 
Helminthophis canellei , sp. n., Mocquard, Bull. Mus. Paris 1903, p. 212, 
Isthmus of Panama. 
GLAUCONIIDiE. 
Glaucoma filiformis , Blgr., figured by Boulenger, Nat. Hist. Sokotra, 
pi. xi, fig. 2 ; G. macrura, n. n. for G. longicauda , Blgr, nec Ptrs., id. 
ibid., p. 89; figured, pi. xi, fig. 3. 
Boida:. 
Python spilotes , Lacep. Note by Werner, Abh. Bayer. Ak. xxii, ii, p. 381. 
Epicrates wieningeri , sp. n., Steindachner, Anz. Ak. Wiss. xl, p. 17, and 
SB. Ak. Wien cxii, p. 15, Paraguay. 
Eryx jacidus , L., described from Roumania by Kiritzescu, Bull. Soc. 
Bucarest xi, p. 620. 
Uropeltidjs. 
Rhinophis punctatus, Mull. Note by Willey, Spolia Zeylan. i, p. 88, figg. 
, COLUBRIDiE. 
Aglyphce. 
Polyodontophis annidatus, D. & B. Note by Werner, Abh. Bayer. Ak 
xxii, ii, p. 345, 
Tropidonotus, Kuhl. On the species of Eutcenia from Western North 
America, A. E. Brown, P. Ac. Philad. lv, p. 286 ; E. brachystovia. 
Cope. Note by H. L. Clark, P. Soc. Washington xvi, p. 83 ; T. 
ordmatuSy L. On its mode of parturition, C. E. Dionne, Natural. 
Canad. xxx, p. 65, and E. Roy, t. c. p. 145 ; T. tessellatus , Laur., 
var. n. vosseleH , Werner, Zool. Jahrb. Syst. xix, p. 336, pi. xxiv, 
figg. 15 & 16, Asia Minor; T. percarinatuSy Blgr. Notes by Wall, 
P. Z. S. 1903, i, 87, and by Werner, Abh. Bayer. Ak. xxii, ii, p. 354 ; 
T. habereriy sp. n., id. ibid., pi. — , fig. 1, Hills of Ningpo [=7'. annu- 
larisy Hall. — R ec.] ; T. fasciatusy L. On the varieties sipedon and 
