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IV. REPTILIA AND BATRACHIA. 
AGLOSSA. 
The genus Hymenochirus , Blgr. is regarded as more nearly related to Pipa 
than to Xenopus. II. boettgeri , Torn., redescribed: Boulenger, Ann. 
Nat. Hist. (7) iv, p. 122. 
CAUDATA. 
B. M. Shitkov, Zool. Anz. xxii, pp. 246-257, figg., investigates the 
structure and development of the limbs of Salamandrella keyserlingii , 
Dyb. ( Isodactylium sclirenkii , Strauch). 
E. Lonnberg, Zool. Anz. xxii, pp. 545-548, remarks on the presence or 
absence of lungs in various Salamandrids. 
E. Zeller, Jahresh. Ver. Wurttemb. lv, pp. 23-30, writes on Newts 
(.Molge ) with persistent gills. 
C. H. Eigenmann, P. Indiana Ac. 1899, p. 251, remarks on the eye of 
Typhlomolge rathbuni , and the same author with W. A. Denny on 
that of Typhlotriton spelceus, t. c. p. 252. 
C. I. Constantinesco, Bull. Soc. Bucarest viii, pp. 204-207, figg., remarks 
on the urogenital apparatus of the male Molge vulgaris. 
L. Giannelli, Monit. Zool. ital. x, Suppl. pp. xxxix-xlvi, pi. xi, writes on 
the interhepatic pancreas in tailed Batrachians. 
M. v. Linden, Jahresh. Ver. Wurttemb. lv, pp. 31-35, discusses the 
ontogenetic signification of the markings of European Newts, and 
suggests the possibility of the “balancers” of Newt-larvae being 
homologous with the opercular gills of certain fishes. 
A. Bochenek, Bull. Ac. Cracovie 1899, pp. 338-348, 2 pis., writes on the 
nerves of the prosencephalon of Salamandra maculosa. 
E. Giglio-Tos, Anat. Anz. xv, pp. 293-298, figg., has observations on the 
blood-corpuscles of Batrachoseps attenuatus. 
E. W. Carlier, Cellule xvi, pp. 405-464, 3 pis., writes on the changes 
that occur in some cells of the Newt’s stomach during digestion. 
F. Meves, Festschrift C. v. KupfFer, pp. 57-67, pi. vii, writes on the 
influence of cellular division on renal secretion in Salamander-larvae. 
J. B. Carnoy & H. Lebrun, Cellule xvi, pp. 301-401, pis. ix-xii, have a 
memoir on the germinative vesicule and the polar globules in the ova 
of Tailed Batrachians. 
G. Chiarugi, Monit. Zool. ital. x, pp. 176-187, writes on the segmentation 
of the ovum in Salamandrina perspicillata. 
F. Kingsbury, Zool. Bull, ii, pp. 203-209, figg., writes on the reducing 
divisions in the spermatogenesis of Desmognatkus fusca. 
J. H. McGregor, J. Morphol. xv, Suppl. pp. 57-104, pis. iv & v, studies 
the spermatogenesis of Amphiuma. 
H. W. Britcher, Tr. Amer. Micr. Soc. xxi, pp. 69-74, pi. vi, writes on the 
development of albino eggs of Amblystoma punctatum. 
A. Benedicenti & O. Polledro, Atti Acc. Lincei, Rend. (5) viii, pp. 413- 
418, write on the nature and physiological action of the poisonous 
secretion of Spelerpes fuscus. —French translation, Arch. ital. Biol, 
xxxii, pp. 135-142. 
Salamandra caucasica , Waga, figured by Radde, Samml. Kaukas. Mus. i, 
Zool. pi. xix. 
Molge alpestris , Laur. On sexually mature branchiate specimens: L. v. 
Mehely, Termes. Kozl. Magyar Tars, xlii, p. 138, figg. 
Salamandrella Jceyserlmgii, Dyb., redescribed by Bedriaga, Przewalski 
Reis., Zool. iii, i, p. 3. 
Autodax lugubris , Hallow. On the life history: W..E. Ritter & L. 
Miller, Amer. Natural, xxxiii, p. 691, figg. 
