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IV. REPTILIA AND BATRACHIA. 
Proteroglyphce. 
Distira annandalei , sp. n., Laidlaw, P. Z. S. 1901, ii, p. 579, pi. xxxv, figg. 
1 & 2, Patani, Malay Peninsula. 
Pseudechis colletti , sp. n., Boulenger, Ann. Nat. Hist. (7) x, p. 494, 
Queensland. 
Naia brugarus, Schleg. On its characters and habits, G. H. Evans, 
J. Bombay Soc. xiv, p. 409, pi. — ; N. multifasciata, sp. n., Werner, 
Verh. Ges. Wien lii, p. 347, Upper Maringa, Congo. 
Boulengerina annulata, Ptrs. Note by Werner, Verh. Ges. Wien lii, 
p. 347. 
Aspidelaps lubricus , L., and scutatus , Smith. Notes by Werner, t. c. 
p. 341. 
Elays calamus , sp. n., Boulenger, Ann. Nat. Hist. (7) ix, p! 57, N.W. 
Ecuador ; E. simonsii, sp. n., id. t. c. p. 338, Cordova, Argentina ; 
E. regularise sp. n., id. op. cit. x, p. 402, Andes of Bolivia. 
Amblycephalida:. 
Leptognathus gracilis, sp. n., Boulenger, Ann. Nat. Hist. (7) ix, p. 57, 
N.W. Ecuador. 
Viperida:. 
Vipera, Laur. On a remarkable specimen from Carinthia intermediate 
between V. berus, L. and V. ammodytes , L., Werner, Verh. Ges. 
Wien lii, p. 716 ; C. Phisalix, Bull. Mus. Paris 1902, p. 102, figg., 
remarks on the cephalic lepidosis of Vipera berus and V. aspis and 
holds the head-shields of the former to be a more primitive character, 
as shown by the ontogeny ; V. berus, L. On its distribution, habits, 
and variations in Scotland, Leighton, Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist. 1902, 
p. 95 ; Service, t. c. p. 153 ; Bidie, t. c. p. 217 ; G. Leighton, Field 
Nat. Quart, i, p. 261, pi. —, remarks on the Adder-swallowing theory 
and on the capacity of the Snake’s gullet ; on a monstrous embryo, 
L. Launoy, Bull. Mus. Paris 1902, p. 265, and C.R. Soc. Biol, liv, 
p. 449 [the protruding male genital organs are taken for rudimentary 
limbs, hence the embryo is described as biped!—R ec ] ; V. renardi, 
Christoph. Notes by Lindholm, Zool. Garten xliii, p. 49 ; V. aspis, 
L. On its habits in captivity, R. Rollinat, Mem. Soc. zool. France 
xiv, p. 446. 
Atheris nitschei, sp. n., Tornier, Zool. Jahrb. Syst. xv, p. 589, fig., 
Mpororo, German E. Africa. 
ornithosauria. 
Rhamphorhynchus gemmingi, H. v. Mey. On the skull, A. S. Woodward, 
Ann. Nat. Hist. (7) ix, p. 1, pi. i, figg. 1 & 2 ; R. longiceps, sp. n., 
id. ibid. p. 3, pi. i, fig. 3, Lower Kimmeridgian, Eichstadt, Bavaria. 
S. W. Williston, J. Geol. x, pp. 520-531, pis. i & ii, describes and figures 
the skull of Nyctodactylus. 
orthopoda. 
F. A. Lucas, Rep. Smithson. Inst. f. 1901, pp. 641-647, 4 pis., remarks on 
the principal types of Orthopods and Dinosaurs, with restorations of 
the external appearance. 
J. B. Hatcher, Ann. Carnegie Mus. i, pp. 377-386, remarks on the genera 
and species of the Trachodontidce. 
