CHELONIA—KHYNCHOCEPHALIA. 
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Rollinat, Bull. Soc. zool. France xxiv, p. 103. — On its occurrence in 
Moravia and Austrian Silesia: Smycka, SB. Bohmisch. Ges. 1899, 
No. 15. 
Toxaspis anguillulatus , sp. n. (foss.), Cope, t. c. p. 196, pi. xix, fig. 1, 
Pleistocene of Port Kennedy, Pennsylvania. 
Hadrianus schucherti , sp. n. (foss.), Hay, P. U. S. Mus. xxii, p. 22, pis. iv 
& v, Eocene, Alabama. 
Testudo , L. L. Vaillant, Bull. Mus. Paris 1899, p. 19, comments on 
some old documents relating to the Land Tortoises of the Mascarenes 
and Seychelles. H. Froidevaux, t. c. p. 214, has some historical 
data concerning those of Mauritius. Schnee, Zool. Garten xl, p. 119, 
remarks on land tortoises in confinement; T. nigrita , D. & B. Notes 
by Waite, Rec. Austral. Mus. iii, p. 95, figg., pis. xx-xxii; T. 
hololissa , Gthr., is a native of the Seychelles: T. Sauzier, Bull. Soc. 
zool. France xxiv, p. 138 ; T. sumeirei , Sauz. Note by W. Roths¬ 
child, Nov. Zool. vi, p. 359; T. marginata , Schoepff. Note on its 
introduction in Sardinia: Angelini, Boll. Soc. Rom. Zool. viii, p. 50; 
T. horsjieldii, Gray, figured in Fedtschenko’s “ Reise Turkest.” Zool. 
ii, pt. vii, pis. i & ii; T. grceca , var. n. liercegovinensis , Werner, 
Wiss. Mitt. Bosnien vi, p. 818, Herzegovina. 
Thalcissochelys caretta , L. On variations in the shields of the carapace: 
Gadow, Willey’s “ Zool. Res.” iii, p. 207, pis. xxiv & xxv, and P. 
Cambridge Soc. x, p. 35. On a specimen washed up on the island of 
Yallay, North Uist, Scotland: C. V. A. Peel, Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist. 
1899, p. 115. Individual variations of the same species described as 
T. tarapacana and controversa , Philippi, An. Univ. Chile civ, Coast 
of Chili. 
Chelonia lata , Phil., redescribed by Philippi, An. Univ. Chile civ, Coast 
of Chili [— C. rnydas, L. —Rec.]. 
Sphargis angusta, sp. n., Philippi, t. c. pi. —, Coast of Chili [ — Der- 
mochelys coriacea , L. —Rec.]. 
ichthyosauria. 
Ichthyosaurus quadriscissus , Qu. On a specimen showing external charac¬ 
ters : E. Fraas, Foldtani Kozl. 1898, p. 169, pi. ii. 
PLESIOSAURI A. 
Cymatosaurus silesiacus and gracilis , spp. nn., Schrammen, Zeitschr. 
Deutscli. geol. Ges. Ii, pp. 389 & 402, pis. xxi-xxvi, Lower Muschelkalk 
of Upper Silesia. 
PLACOSAURIA. 
Saniwa australis , sp. n., Amecihino, Sin. geol.-pal. Supl. p. 10, St Cruz, 
Patagonia. 
rhynchocephalia. 
A. Dendy, Quart. J. Micr. Sc-i. xlii, pp. 1-87, pis. i-x, and 111-153, pis. 
xi-xiii, has two memoirs on the development of Sphenodon punctatus. 
On the same subject: Schauinsland, Ver. Deutsch. zool. Ges. 1899, 
pp. 298-300, who also has a paper on the habits and development, 
Anat. Anz. xv, pp. 309-334, pis. ii & iii. General remarks on the 
