26 Rept. 
IV. REPTILIA AND BATRACHIA. 
[ 1904 ] 
DOLICHOSAURIA. 
L. Dollo, Mem. Soc. Beige Geol. xviii, pp. 217-222, and S. W. Williston, 
J. Geol. xii, pp. 45-48, remark on the different views that have been 
expressed as to the phylogenetic relation between the Dolichosaurians 
and the Lacertilians and Pythonomorphs. 
OPHIDIA. 
F. E. Beddard, P. Z. S. 1903, ii, pp. 319-328, iigg., 1904, i, pp. 331-370, 
figg., 1904, ii, pp. 107-121, figg., and pp. 147-154, figg., writes on the 
anatomy of various groups of Snakes. 
E. Ballowitz brings out the first part of a work, “Entwickelungsgeschichte 
der Kreuzotter,” Jena, 4to, dealing with the development of Viper a 
berus. 
H. Dubuisson, C.R. Soc. Biol, lvii, pp. 286-288, 437 & 438, describes the 
resorption of the vitellus in the development of Vipers. 
R. S. N. Pillay, Ann. Nat. Hist. (7) xiii, pp. 238 & 239, remarks on the 
dentition of some Indian Elapine Snakes. 
N. RosfaN, Zool. Anz. xxviii, pp. 1-7, figg., writes on the muscles of 
the jaws of Snakes and on their mechanical relation to the poison- 
gland. 
A. Branca, Arch. zool. exp. Notes (4) ii, pp. xxxvii-xlv, has studied 
the epithelial covering of the sheath of the tongue in Tropidonotus 
natrix. 
F. Crevatin, Anat. Anz. xxiv, pp. 539-542, figg., and U. Carpi, op. cit. 
xxv, pp. 225-230, figg., have studied the nerves in the transparent 
immovable eyelid of Snakes. 
T. Neumann, Ber. Senckenberg. Ges. 1904, pp. 72*-76*, remarks on 
poisonous Snakes and Snake poison. 
C. Phisai.ix, C.R. Ac. Sci. cxxxviii, pp. 1459-1461, and C.R. Soc. Biol, lvi, 
pp. 976-978, remarks on the causes of the natural immunity of 
Snakes to their own poison, and op. cit. lvii, pp. 486-488, has further 
remarks on the difference between Viperid and Colubrid venom. 
L. Rogers, Phil. Trans. B. cxcvii, pp. 123-191, has investigated the 
physiological action of Colubrine and Viperine venoms ; R. H. Elliot, 
P. R. Soc. London lxxiii, pp. 183-190, that of JVaia tripudians ; R. H. 
Elliot, W. C. Sillar, & G. S. Carmichael, Phil. Trans. B. cxcvii, 
pp. 327-345, that of Bungarus ccendeus ; and Sir T. R. Fraser 
& R. H. Elliot, t. c. pp. 249-279, that of Enhydrina valakadien and 
Enhydns curtus. 
G. Lamb, Sci. Mem. India (2), No. 10, has further observations on Snake 
poisons. 
F. Noc, Ann. Inst. Pasteur xviii, pp. 387-406, remarks on certain physio- 
logical properties of the different Snake poisons. 
F. Wall, J. Bombay Soc. xv, p. 524, records cases of Snakes feeding on 
other Snakes. 
Typhlopidas. 
Typhlops rostellatus, sp. n., Stejneger, Rep. U. S. Mus. for 1902, p. 686, 
figg., Porto Rico ; T. kleebergi , sp. n., Werner, Zool. Anz. xxvii, 
p. 464, Usambara, German E. Africa. 
BoiDiE. 
On some points in their anatomy : Beddard, Ann. Nat. Hist. (7) xiii, 
p. 233, and P. Z. S. 1904, ii, p. 107, figg. 
