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IV. REPTILIA AND BATRACHIA. 
G. Leighton, Zoologist (4) v, p. 301, remarks on the sloughing in Snakes, 
recording the observations of W. J. Clarke on a Python molurus in 
confinement. 
L. Launoy, Bull. Mus. Paris 1901, pp. 122 & 123, remarks on the chemical 
nature of the secretion of the salivary glands in Zarnenis ge'monensis. 
B. Auche & Louis Vaillant, C.R. Soc. Biol, liii, p. 756, have made 
experiments on the alteration of the blood of the guinea-pig through 
the bite of poisonous Snakes. 
TYPHLOPIDiE. 
Typhlops polygrammicus, Schleg. On a specimen from Java: van Lidth 
de Jeude, Notes Leyden Mus. xxiii, p. 32; T. decorsei , sp. n., 
Mocquard, Bull. Mus. Paris 1901, p. 255, Madagascar; T. erycinus , 
sp. n., Werner, Verh. Ges. Wien li, p. 611, fig., New Guinea. 
Glauconiida:. 
Glaucoma albifrons, Wagl., var. n. rubrolineata , Werner, Abh. Mus. 
Dresden ix, No. 2, p. 6, Peru; G. lepezi , sp. n., Boulenger, Ann. 
Mus. Congo Zool. (1) ii, p. 8, pi. iii, fig. 2, Zambi, Congo. 
Boida:. 
Nardoana , n. n. for Nardoa , Gray, 1842, nec 1840, C. Berg, Comun. Mus. 
Buenos Aires i, p. 289. 
Gigantophis , g. n., near Python , for G. garstini , sp. n. (foss.), Andrews, 
Geol. Mag. (2) Dec. iv, viii, p. 438, fig. 1, Eocene, Egypt. 
Palceopython sardus , sp. n. (foss.), Portis, Boll. Soc. geol. Ital. xx, p. 247, 
fig., Miocene, Sardinia. 
Ungalia maculata , Bibr. On its habits in captivity: P. de Grijs, Zool. 
Garten xlii, p. 33; U. semicincta, Ptrs. Note by Werner, Verh. Ges. 
Wien li, p. 635; U. paucisquamis , sp. n., Schenkel, Verh. Ges. Basel 
xiii, p. 154, Hab. ?; U. brasiliensis , sp. n., Andersson, Bill. Svenska 
Ak. xxvii, iv, No. 5, p. 4, pi. i, fig. 1, Brazil. 
Epicrates angulifer , Bibr. Note by Werner, Verh. Ges. Wien li, p. 635; 
E. striatus , Fisch. = E. angulifer , Bibr. var., Meerwarth, Mt. Mus. 
Hamburg xviii, 2, p. 5; E. subjlavus , sp. n., Stejneger, P. U. S. Mus. 
xxiii, p. 469, Jamaica. 
Corallus , Daud. Stejneger, op. cit. xxiv, p. 184, proposes to substitute 
the name Boa for this genus; C. ruschenbergii , Cope, head figured, 
id. ibid. p. 185, figg. 
Galabaria reinhardti , Schleg. Note by Tornier, Zool. Anz. xxiv, p. 63. 
PALiEOPHIID.E. 
Mceriophis , g. n., near Palceophis , for M. schweinfurthi , sp. n. (foss.), 
Andrews, Geol. Mag. (2) Dec. iv, viii, p. 438, fig., Eocene, Egypt. 
Ilysiida:. 
Anomochilus , n. n. for Anomalochilus, Jeude, nec Blanchard, C. Berg, 
Comun. Mus. Buenos Aires i, p. 289. 
Dinilysia , g. n., allied to Ilysia , for D. patagonica, sp. n. (foss.), A. S. Wood¬ 
ward, P. Z. S. 1901, i, p. 176, pi. xx, Red Sandstone of Neuquen, 
Patagonia. 
