24 Rept. 
IV. REPTILIA AND B ATRAC HI A. 
EMYDOSAURIA. 
A. Voeltzkow, Abh. Senckenberg. Ges. xxvi, pp. 1-150, figg., pis. i-xvii, has 
a memoir on the habits and development of Crocodilus madagascar- 
iensis, Grand., followed by a bibliographical list comprising the whole 
literature on Crocodilians recent and fossil. 
G. Paravicini, Boll. Scient. xxi, pp. 43-56, 2 pis., writes on the articu¬ 
lations of the limbs in Alligator mississippiensis, and pp. 81-87, 1 pi., 
on the myology of the glosso-hyoid region of the same species; also 
Rend. 1st. Lombardo (2) xxxii, pp. 998 & 999. 
Crocodilusporosus, Schn. On its absence from Fiji: Waite, P. Linn. Soc. 
N. S. Wales xxiv, p. 283 ; C. americanus , Laur. On a young 
specimen intermediate between this species and C. intermedins , 
Graves. Werner, Verh. Ges. Wien xlix, p. 471. 
Symptosuchus , g. n., allied to Notosuclius, for S. contortidens , sp. n. (foss.), 
Ameghino, Sin. geol.-pal. Supl. p. 9, Cretaceous, Patagonia. 
chelonia. 
F. Siebenrock, SB. Ak. Wien cviii, pp. 563-595, 3 pis., writes on the 
larynx and trachsea of Chelonians, and Ann. Hofmus. Wien xiii, 
pp. 424-437, pis. xvii & xviii, on the structure and development of the 
hyoid. 
A. Goette, Zeitschr. wiss. Zool. lxvi, pp. 407-434, figg., pis. xxvii-xxix, 
has a paper on the development of the carapace, with special 
reference to the condition in the Athecce. 
F. v. Moller, Zeitschr. wiss. Zool. lxv, pp. 573-598, pis. xxx-xxxii, writes 
on the urogenital system in some Chelonians. 
F. W. Pickel, Zool. Bull, ii, pp. 291-301, figg. writes on the accessory 
bladders of Chelonians. 
Trionyx subplanus , Geoffr., figured by S. S. Flower, P. Z. S. 1899, 
pi. xxxvi ; T. spinifer, Les., and sinensis , Wgm. Remarks by 
Schnee, Zeitschr. Naturw. lxxii, pp. 197 & 202 ; T. styriacus, Ptrs. 
(foss.). On a neural plate from the Tertiary of Leoben, Austria: 
Redlich, SB. Ak. Wien cvii, 1898, p. 459; T. stormsi, sp. n. (foss.), 
Delheid, Ann. Soc. malac. Belgique xxxiii, Bull. p. lxxvi, Middle 
Oligocene, Boom, near Antwerp; T. argentina , sp. n. (foss.), Ame¬ 
ghino, Sin. geol.-pal., Supl. p. 10, Cretaceous of Patagonia. 
Emyda vittata , Ptrs. Note by Schnee, t. c. p. 201. 
Platemys guaranitica,patagonica , and sehuensis , spp. nn. (foss.), Ameghino, 
op. cit. p. 10, Cretaceous of Patagonia. 
Proganochelys quenstedtii , Baur (foss.). On the shell: E. Fraas, Jahresh. 
Ver. Wurttemb. lv, p. 401, figg., pis. v-viii. 
Miolania , Ow. (foss.). On remains from Patagonia: Moreno, Nature, lx, 
p. 397, fig., and Geol. Mag. (2) Dec. iv, vi, p. 385, figg.; Niolamia 
argentina , g. & spp. nn., for the same remains : Ameghino, Sin. geol.- 
pal. Supl. p. 10. 
Carettochelys inscidpta , Rams. Remarks on the skull: Boulenger, 
P. Z. S. 1898, p. 851. 
Acherontemys , g. n., provisionally referred to the Chelydridce, for A. 
heckmani, sp. n. (foss.), Hay, P. LL S. Mus. xxii, p. 23, pi. vi, 
Miocene, Washington Territory. 
Clemmys percrassus , sp. n. (foss.), Cope, J. Ac. Pliilad. (2) xi, p. 194, 
pi. xviii, fig. 1, Pleistocene of Port Kennedy, Pennsylvania. 
Emys orbicularis , L. Figured in Fedtschenko’s “ Reise Turkest.” Zool. 
ii, pt. vii, pi. iii.—Observations on pairing and oviposition by R. 
