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IV. REPTILIA AND BATRACHIA. 
AGLOSSA. 
W. G. Ride wood, J. Linn. Soc. xxvi, pp. 53-128, pis. viii-xi, describes the 
structure and dovolopmont of the hyobranchial skeloton and larynx in 
Xenopus and Pipa , and remarks on the affinities of the Aglossa . — 
The same author, l. c. p. 120, and Anat. Anz. xiii, pp. 359-376, figg. 
has also discovered the diapophyses of the third and fourth vertebrae 
to be segmented off as autogenous ribs in the larvae of Xenopus and 
in the ripe embryos of Pipa. 
CAUDATA. 
J. A. Murray, Anat. Anz. xiii, pp. 661-664, figg. remarks on the vertebral 
column of Spelerpes , Plethodon , and Desmognathus. 
H. C. Bumpus, J. Morphol. xii, pp. 455-484, pis. A-C, has a paper on 
variations in the vertebral column of Necturus maculatus. 
Julia B. Platt, Morphol. Jahrb. xxv, pp. 377-464, pis. xvi-xviii, has 
investigated the development of the cartilaginous skull and of the 
branchial and hypoglossal musculature in Necturus. 
F. Meves, Arch. mikr. Anat. xlviii, pp. 1-83, pis. i-v, describes the 
development of the male genital glands of Salamandra maculosa. 
J. Dauen, Morphol. Arbeit, vii, pp. 366-392, figg. writes on the rudimentary 
cloacal gland of female newts ( Molge). 
A. Van Gehuohten, Verh. Anat. Ges. xi, pp. 119-123, has a preliminary 
note on some points in the structure of the central nervous system of 
Salamandra maculosa. 
U. Rossi, Arch. Entwickmech. v, pp. 587-590, 595-614, figg. pi. ix, 
writes on blastopore and oolisis in the egg of Salamandrina per- 
spicillata. 
G. Chiarugi & F. Livini have made experiments on the influence of light 
on the development of the eggs of Salamandrina perspicillata. Mon. 
Zool. ital. viii, pp. 90-96, 101-110. 
Herlitzka’s note (1896) on the development of complete embryos out of 
isolated blastomeres of the newt is published in French, Arch. ital. 
Biol, xxvii, pp. 33-35. 
G. Tornier, Zool. Anz. xx, pp. 360-365, figg. . has made experiments on 
polymely and hyperdactyly in reproduced limbs of newts. 
L. Michaelis, Arch. mikr. Anat. xlviii, pp. 523-544, figg. deals with the 
fecundation of the egg of the newts. 
W. Flemming, Arch. mikr. Anat. xlviii, pp. 369-374, 690-692, remarks on 
the influence of light and temperature on the pigmentation of Sala- 
mander larvae. ' 
C. Phisalix, C.R. Ac. Sci. cxxv, pp. 121-123, and Bull. Mus. Paris, 1897, 
pp. 242-244, writes on the physiological action of the poisonous 
dermal secretion of Megalobatrachus maximus, Schleg. 
Salamandra, Laur. Biological and embryological observations on S. 
maculosa , Laur. and S. atra, Laur. : Schwalbe, Zeitschr. Biol. (2) xvi, 
p. 340, figg. 
Molge torosa , Esch. described and figured, with an account of the life- 
history and habits, by W. E. Ritter, P. Calif. Ac. (3) i, Zool. p. 73, 
pi. iii. 
Amblvstoma punctatum , L. On the breeding habits: E. A. Andrews, 
Amor. Natural, xxxi, p. 635. 
Spelerpes palmatus, sp. n., Werner, Zool. Anz. xx, p. 266, Ecuador. 
