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(6) xix, Mt Victoria, New Guinea; L. everetti , sp. n., Boulenger, Ann. 
Nat. Hist. (6) xix, p. 504, Sumba.; L. gemmiventris and vigintiscrierum , 
spp. nn., Sjostedt, Zool. Anz. xx, p. 56, and Bih. Svenska Ak. Handl. 
xxiii, Pt. iv, No. 2, pp. 16 & 18, pis. i & ii, Cameroon; L. tigrinum, 
sp. n., v. Lidth de Jeude, Notes Leyden Mus. xviii, p. 250, pi. vi, fig. 1, 
N. E. New Guinea [name preoccupied, De Vis, 1888. — Rec.]; L. 
johnstoni , sp. n., Boulenger, P. Z. S. 1897, p. 801, pi. xlvi, fig. 1, N. 
Nyassaland ; L. akelevi , sp. n., Meek, Publ. Field Mus. Zool. i, p. 182, 
fig. Somaliland [ = Chalcides ocellatus , Forsk. — Rec.]; L. ( Hinulia ) 
compressicaudum , sp. n., Werner, SB. Ak. Munchen, 1897, p. 210, 
Australia; L. ( Homolepida ) moellendorffi, , sp. n., Boettger, Zool. Anz. 
xx, p. 162, Tablas, Philippines. 
Eumeces sJciltonianus , B. & G., figured by Van Denburgh, Pap. Cal. Ac. v, 
p. 145, fig. • 
Chalcides boulengeri , Anders. Note by Werner, Verb. Ges. Wien, xlvii, 
p. 405. 
Sepsina ardouini , sp. n., Mocquard, Bull. Mus. Paris, 1897, p. 211, 
Madagascar. 
RHIPTOGLOSSA. 
Chamcdeon vulgaris , Daud. Notes on the habits: Thilenius, Zool. Jahrb. 
Syst. x, p. 225: C. parvilobus , Blgr. Note by Werner, Verh. Ges. 
Wien, xlvii, p. 402. 
Rhampholeon mandera, sp. n., Meek, Publ. Field Mus. Zool. i, p. 183, 
Somaliland [ = ? R. kerstenii , Ptrs. — Rec.]. 
PYTHONOMORPHA. 
S. W. Williston, Kansas Quart, vi, p. 107, pi. xiii, gives restorations of 
three Kansas Mosasaurs: Clidastes velox , Marsh, Platecarpus coryphaeus , 
Cope, and Tylosaurus prorig er, Cope. The same author also has 
remarks on the limbs and scales of the latter species, t. c. p. 99, 
pis. ix-xii. 
Mosasaurus gaudryi , sp. n., ThIsvenin, Bull. Soc. geol. France (3) xxiv, 
p. 902, pi. xxix, Chalk of Vaux-Eclusier, near P^ronne, France. 
Platecarpus somenensis , sp. n., ThIcvenin, t. c. p. 907, pi. xxx, Chalk 
of Vaux-Eclusier, near P^ronne. 
Brachysaurus , g. n. ( Tylosauridcel ) for R. overtoni, sp. n., Williston, l. c. 
p. 96, pi. viii, Cretaceous of South Dakota. 
OPHIDIA. 
L. Kathariner, Zool. Jahrb. Anat. x, pp. 45-92, figg., pis. vi— viii, investi- 
gates the structure and replacement of the poison-fangs of Snakes. 
C. Bisogni, Anat. Anz. xiii, pp. 490-494, figg., lias a further communica- 
tion on a spocial gland in the lingual sheath of Vipors, and, pp. 495- 
498, figg., on the anatomical correspondence of the sub-lingual gland 
with the chin-shields in the non-poisonous Snakes. 
J. Bethencourt Ferreira, J. Sci. Lisb. (2) iv, pp. 235-248, writes on 
Snake poison and antidotes. 
A. G. Cardew, J. Bombay Soc. x, pp. 585-596, gives a rough key to the 
identification of the Indian Ophidia , 
