CATALOGUE OF SHIELD REPTILES. 



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and interrupted ; shield radiately striated, blackish-rayed ; 

 areola of vertebral plates posterior, marginal, of costal 

 plates superior, submarginal ; nuchal plate none ; margin 

 yellow-spotted beneath ; sternum convex, rounded on the 

 ■side ; axillar}- plate moderate, inguinal large. Animal 

 black ; neck with three or four yellow lines on the side ; 

 chin and throat yellow, black-varied. 



Emys nigricans. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1834; Cat. Tort. 

 B.M. 18. 



Hab. Chiua. 



c. Adult (stuffed). China ? From the Zoological Society. 



a. Young animal (dry, from spirits) ; 2^ inches long. 



China ; Canton. Presented by the Hon. East India 

 Company. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 

 Emys mutica. Cantor, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1842 ; Grai/, Cat. 

 tort. B.M. 18. 



Osteology : — 



b. Shell and head (dry), margin broken ; 2\ inches. China. 



Presented by J. R. Reeves, Esq. 



Dr. Cantor's specimens of E. mutica only differ from the 

 larger specimen in the Museum in the plates being worn. 



Head of the dry specimen uniform brown, showing no 

 appearance of any pale marks. Forehead rather convex. 

 Eyes subsuperior. 



The head covered with a thin skin ; neck granular ; the 

 fore legs with two series of broad band-like shields on the 

 inner and a series of narrower longer shields on the outer 

 side. Toes covered with scales with a broad web, and 

 with three or four band-like scales above near the claws. 

 Claws black, curved ; the hinder stronger. Allied to the 

 genus Batagur. 



4. Emys sinensis. The Chinese Emys. 

 Shell ovate, convex, slightly three-keeled, olive, black- 

 speckled ; shields smooth, with a central orange streak ; 

 vertebral shields broad, six-sided, first narrowest, as long as 

 broad ; areola of vertebral plates ])osterior, marginal, of 

 costal subcentral, subposterior ; margin entire, rather revo- 

 lute in front, and expanded over the leg behind, beneath 

 yellow, with an oval, rather posterior, black-edged olive 

 spot ; sternum high, slightly keeled on the sides. Head 

 and neck olive, with narrow yellow lines. 



Emys sinensis. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1834 ; Cat. Tort. 

 B.M. 17. 

 Hab. China ; Canton. 



a. Adult (stuffed) ; 4 inches long. China. Presented by 

 John Reeves, Esq. 



Toes broadly webbed. Head elongate ; forehead rather 

 convex ; eyes subsuperior. 



*** Back more or less one-keeled, often becoming keelless ; 

 areola of costal plates simple; hinder edge entire or 

 nearly so. 



t Asiatic. 



5. Emys Thurgii. The Thurgi. 

 Shell oblong, rather convex, olive-brown ; margin yellow- 

 ish, rather toothed behind ; vertebral plates, first quadrate, 

 broader behind, second and third broad, six-sided ; sternum 

 olive, sUghtly keeled on the sides. Head olive, with a broad 

 yellow band from the nostrils, over the eyebrows, along the 

 side of the neck ; feet oUve, yellow-spotted. 



Emys Thurgii, Gray, Syn. 22. 72; Cat. Tort. B.M. 17. 

 Bum. |- Bib. Erp. Gere. ii. 318 ; Cat. Meth. R. 14. 

 Testudo Thurgii, B. Hamilton, MSS. cop. Gray, Illust. 



hid. Zool. t. 

 Emys flavo-nigra. Lesson, Bull. Sci. xxv. 12, and Belanger, 



toy. 22. 

 E. Spengleri, var., ScMegel, Faun. Japan. 51. 



Hab. India, Bengal ; Pinang (Cawdor). 



a. Adult (stuffed) ; 13 mches. Blackish-brown ; under 



side of marginal plate yellow-edged. India, Bengal. 

 From yi. Picquot's Collection. 



b. Young (dry) ; .5 inches. Shell keeled ; the hinder edge 



of the second and third vertebral jilates subnodose ; 

 the middle of the vertebral and the upper part of the 

 lateral costal shields and the hinder costal shield black- 

 ish ; the marginal shields pale-edged. India, Bengal. 



M. Schlegel also refers this species, which he has not 

 seen, to Geoemyda Spengleri. It has not the shghtest 

 affinity to it, and is ten times the size ! 



The head ovate ; forehead rather convex ; eyes rather 

 close together, subsuperior ; front of legs with broad lunate 

 scales. Toes broadly webbed. 



6. Emys BeaUi. Beale's Emys. Tab. VIII. 



Shell ovate, oblong, solid, rather convex, olive, black- 

 dotted ; back slightly contracted and keeled behind, hinder 

 edge rather expanded, entire ; vertebral shields transverse, 

 six-sided ; sternum rather paler, black-spotted and lined. 

 Head yellowish, black-spotted ; chin and cheek yellow- 

 marked ; occiput with two large eyed spots ; neck scarlet- 

 lined, with three broader distant streaks on the upper side. 



Emys Bealii, Gray, P/-oc.2oo/. Soc. 1834; Cat.Torf.B.M.XT. 



Bum. S,- Bib. Erp. Gm. ii. 325 ; Cat. Mtth. /J. 14. 

 Cistudo? Bealii, Gray, Syn. 71. 

 Hab. China (Reeves). 



