IV. REPTILIA AND BATRACIIIA. 
26 Rept. 
Remarks on the supposed relationship of Birds and Dinosaurs : Gadow, 
P. Cambridge Soc. ix, pp. 204-208. 
C. W. Andrews, Ann. Nat. Hist. (6) xix, pp. 585-591, fig. pi. xvi, describes 
and figures a cast of the brain-cavity of lguanodon. 
Iguanodon bernissartensis , Blgr. On the casts in the Cambridge Museum : 
IIarmer, P. Cambridge Soc. ix, p. 202. 
On a Dinosaurian footprint from Molina do Aragon, Spain : Calderon, 
Act. Soc. Espan. 1897, p. 27. 
emydosauria. 
Caiman sclerops , Schn. Notes on the life-history: Goeldi, Zool. Jahrb. 
Syst. x, p. 653, fig. pi. xxvii, fig. 19. 
Tomistoma lyceensis , Costa (foss.). Description and figures of remains 
from the miocene of Lecce, Italy : P. Aldinio, Atti Acc. Gioen. (4) ix, 
No. 15, 2 pis. Remarks by Capellini, Riv. ital. Pal. iii, p. 18. 
A. Bigot continues his studies of Steneosaurus and Metriorhynchus remains 
from the Jurassic Beds of Normandy. Bull. Soc. Normand. (4) x, p. 123. 
CHELONIA. 
F. Siebenrock, SB. Ak. Wien, cvi, i, pp. 245-328, 6 pis. gives an 
account of the structure of the skull in the principal groups of 
Chelonians. 
E. C. Case, J. Morphol. xiv, pp. 21-56, discusses the relationships of the 
various types of marine Turtles. 
L. Plate, SB. Ges. naturf. Berlin, 1897, pp. 85-89, makes observations 
on the digestive tract and cloaca of a female Chelone mydas. 
Susanna P. Gage, Tr. Amer. Micr. Soc. xviii, pp. 282-286, investigates 
the brain of the embryo of Trionyx. 
K. Mitsukuri, J. Coll. Sci. Japan, x, 1896, pp. 1-118, pis. i-xi, writes on 
the early development of Chelonia. 
Podocnemis expansa , Schw. and dumeriliana , Schw* Notes on the life- 
histories: Goeldi, Zool. Jahrb. Syst. x, pp. 660 & 664, pi. xxvi, 
figg. 8 & 9. 
Testudo polypkemus , Daud. On its burrows : Schnee, Zool. Garten, xxxviii, 
p. 275. 
Testudo gigantea , Schw. = elephantina , D. & B. Further notes by Roths- 
child, Nov. Zool. iv, p. 407 ; T. daudinii , D. & B., noticed and figured 
from life, id. ibid. pi. xiii ; T. grceca y L. On the habits in confinement, 
E. Buck, Zool. Garten, xxxviii, p. 293. M. Jacquet remarks on an 
accidentally injured specimen, Bull. Soc. Bucarest, p. 364, figg. ; T. 
zarudnyi, Nik. described and figured by Nikolsky, Annuaire Mus. 
St. Petersb. 1897, p. 307, pi. xvii. 
Nicoria punctularia , Daud. Notes on the life-history: Goeldi, Zool. 
Jahrb. Syst. x, p. 659, pi. xxvi, fig. 7. 
Liemys , g. n., combining characters of Ocadia , Gray, and Bellia , Gray, 
Boulenger, Ann. Nat. Hist. (6) xix, p. 468 ; L. inornata , sp. n., id. ibid. 
p. 469, Sarawak [ — BrooJceia bailey i, Bartl. — Rec.]. 
Adelochelys crassa , Baur = Liemys inornata , Blgr., Siebenrock, SB. Ak. 
Wien, cvi, i, p. 248. 
Malacoclemmys terrapin , Schcepf, recorded from Massachusetts by O. Bangs, 
P. Boston Soc. xxvii, 1896, p. 159. 
Platysternum megacephalum , Gray, figured by Fea, Ann. Mus, Genova (2) 
xvii, p. 449. 
