16 Rept. 
IV. REPTILIA AND BATRACHIA. 
Fossil Faunae. 
P. A. H. Fritel, Naturaliste xxiii, pp. 5-9, figg., reviews the principal 
fossil Reptiles of the environs of Paris. 
Forest Bed of Westbury-on-Severn. M. A. C. Hixtox, P. Cotteswold 
Club xiv, pp. 44 & 45, records remains of a Snake ( Tropidonotus natrix) 
and Batrachians ( Rana temporaria and Bufo vulgaris). 
Oligocene of Bohemia. On the Reptiles and Batrachians of the brown 
coal: G. C. Laube, Syn. Wirbelthierf. Bohm. Braunkohlenf., pp. 52-63, 
figg., pis. vii & viii. 
Permian of Bohemia. The concluding part of Fritsch’s Fauna der 
Gaskohle contains a supplement (pp. 86-97, pis. clxii-clxiv), dealing with 
Stegocephalia and Reptiles. 
Eocene of Egypt. On newly discovered Reptilian remains: C. IV. 
Axdrews, Geol. Mag. (2) Dec. iv, viii, pp. 437-444, figg. 
Trias of Arizona. On some new finds of Reptilian and Batrachian 
remains: F. A. Lucas, Science (2) xiv, p. 376. 
Cretaceous if) of Patagonia. On some Reptiles: A. S. Woodwarl, 
P. Z. S. 1901, i, pp. 169-184, pis. xv-xx. 
III. REFERENCES ARRANGED SYSTEMATICALLY. 
BEPTILIA and batbachia. 
The eighth volume of the Cambridge Natural History deals with the 
Reptiles and Batrachians, living and fossil, by H. Gadow. 
A. Voeltzkow & L. Doderleix, Abh. Senckenb. Ges. xxvi, pp. 315-336, 
figg., 3 pis., discuss the formation and. phylogenetic evolution of the 
plastron or parasternum of Stegocephalia, Rhynchocephalia, and 
other Reptiles. 
J. S. Kingsley, Tufts Coll. Stud., No. 6, 1900, pp. 203-274, pi. —, deals 
with the bones of the ear in Reptiles and Batrachians. 
E. Kallius, Anat. Hefte Arb. xvi, pp. 531-748, pis. xliv-xlviii, has inves¬ 
tigated the development of the tongue in Reptiles and Batrachians. 
R. Krause, Anat. Anz. xix, pp. 49-59, figg., writes on the origin of the 
ductus endolymphaticus. 
M. Jaquet, Bull. Soc. Bucarest x, pp. 250-263, writes on the sympathetic 
nervous system. 
P. Stephan, in his work “ De Thermaphrodisme chez les Yertebres,” 
remarks on the known cases of hermaphroditism in Reptiles and 
Batrachians. 
G. Tornier, Zool. Anz. xxiv, pp. 488-504, figg., records further cases of 
teratology, natural and artificially produced, in Lizards and Batra¬ 
chians. 
E. Schenkel, Verh. Ges. Basel xiii, pp. 142-199, reports on additions 
made to the herpetological collection of the Basle Museum since 
January 1892. 
E. Lampe issues a catalogue of the Clielonians, Crocodiles, Lizards, and 
Cameleons in the Weisbaden Museum. With notes by W. A. Lixd- 
holm, Jahrb. nassau. Ver. liv, pp. 177-222, pi. iii. 
F. Siebexrock, Festschr. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 1901, pp. 444-462, reviews 
the work done by Austrian herpetologists from 1850 to 1900. 
