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CATALOGUE OF SHIELD REPTILES. 



a. Adult (stuffed). Under sides with hard dark blotches. 



China. Presented by J. Reeves, Esq. 



Osteology : — 



b. Adult shell. Under sides brown dotted and lined. 



China. Presented by J. Reeves, Esq. 



Head moderate ; forehead nearly flat ; eyes sublateral. 

 The fore legs with a single series of very broad lunate thin 

 scales. Toes broadly webbed ; claws narrow, elongate. 



7. Emys Bennettii. Bennett's Emys. Tab. X. 



Shell oblong, rather convex, bluntly and subtvibercularly 

 keeled, expanded and entire behind ; shields dark horn- 

 colour, concentrically grooved, with a broad blackish edge ; 

 the vertebral shields as broad as long ; first squarish, five- 

 sided, convex ; second, third and fourth six-sided, blunt, 

 keeled on the hinder half; fifth rounded in front, three- 

 sided behind, nuchal plate oblong ; beneath yellow, with 

 the middle of the sternal plates, all but the edge of the 

 axillary and inguinal plates, and a very large spot rather 

 nearer the hinder edge of the marginal shields, black. 

 Animal olive. Head with symmetrical, narrow, dark-edged, 

 curved lines on the crown ; temples w ith several narrow 

 dark-edged longitudmal streaks ; neck with numerous 

 narrow yellow lines. Legs yellow-lined. 



Emys Bennettii, Gray, Desc. Bept. Cat. (ined.) 13. n. 32 ; 

 Cat. Tort. B.M. 21. 



Hub. China? 



a. Stuffed (adult). China? From the Zoological Gardens. 



b. Adult (stuffed) . Plate worn and discoloured from having 



been kept in confinement. China? From the Gardens 

 of the Zoological Society. 



8, Emys Japonica. The Isigame. 



Shell oblong (when young suborbicular, strongly denti- 

 culated behind), ochraceous yellow above, black beneath ; 

 shield concentrically striated, becoming smooth ; vertebral 

 shields broad, six-sided. Temples black-lined ; upper jaw 

 not nicked. 



Emys Japonica, Gray, Cat. Tort. B.M. 19. 



Bum. Cat. M>'ih. R. 8. 

 E. palustris, var. Japoraca, Schleffel,Faun.Japon. t.8. f. 1—4 



young, t. 9 adult. 

 E. vulgaris, var. Japonica, Schlegel, Faun. Japon. 53 ; Ah- 



bild. N. Amph. 127. t. 42. 



Hab. Japan. 



a & b. In spirits (adult and half-grown). Japan. From 

 the Leyden Museum. 



The younger specimen is like F. Caspica, but more de- 

 pressed and paler above, and the areolas of the costal plates 

 are rather more central. 



ff European or North African. 

 9. Emys Caspica. The Caspian Emys. 



Shell ovate, oblong, depressed, olive, with black-edged 

 yellow netted lines ; shields flat, vertebral broad, six-sided ; 

 sternum flat, black and yellow varied. Head, neck and 

 feet yellow-lined. 



Testudo Caspica, Gmel. Reise, iii. 59. t. 10, 11 ; Syst. Nat. 



i. 1042. 

 Emys Caspica, Schweiy. Prod. 298. 



Bum. S,- Bib. Erp. Gen. ii. 235 ; Cat. Meth. R. 8. 



Eic/iic. Faun. Casp. Caus. 45. t. 3, 4. 



Grai/, Cat. Tort. B.M. 19. 



Wa'yler, Sijst. t. 5. f. 1-3; Amph. t. 24. 

 Emys lutraria, var. i, Merrem, Tent. 25. 

 E. Syriaca, Licht. Berl. Mus. 

 E. vulgaris, Gray, Syn. 24. 



Schlegel, Faun. Japan. 53. 

 E. palustris v. Dalmatica, Schlegel, Faun. Japon. t. 8. f. 4. 

 E. Sigritzii, Michahelles, Isis, 1829, 1295. 

 E. Sigritz, Bum. Sr Bib. Erp. Gen. ii. 240; Cat. Meth. R. 9. 

 E. lutraria. Bell. Test. t. 1, 2. 



Gray, Griffith's A. K. t. 

 E. leprosa, Schweig. Prod. 298. 

 E. marmorea, Spi.e, Bras. 13. t. 10. 



Gray, Syn. 28. 



Bum. ^- Bib. Erp. Gen. ii. 248 ; Cat. Meth. R. 9. 

 E. rivulata, Valenc. Zool. Morea, t. 9. f. 2, 3. 

 ? E. Iberica, Valenc. Zool. Morea, t. 9. f. 1 ? 

 E. Europrea, Eichw. Zool. Spec. iii. 196. 

 E. Caspia, Eichw. Zool. Sjiec. iii. 196. 

 Clemmys Caspica, JVagler, Syst. 137. t. 5. f. 1-5; Icon. 

 Amph. t. 24. 



Fitc. Syst. Rept. 29 (1843). 

 Testudo Graeca, Pallas, Z. R. A. iii. 17. 



Hab. Border of Caspian Sea ; Morea ; Isle of Crete ; 

 Sicily ; Algiers ; Spain. 



c. Adult (stuffed) ; 6^ inches. South Europe. 



d. Adult (stuffed). Shell and sternum pale, worn. Sicily. 



Presented by Dr. J. E. Gray. 



g. Adult (stuffed). Shell all black ; edge of nuchal shield 

 elongate. From the Zoological Society's Gardens. 



h, i. Young (in spirits). Back with three interrupted 

 keels, formed by a dark-edged, pale, oblong tubercle 

 on the centre of the areola of the costal shields ; ster- 

 num black, pale-edged; beak, temple and neck white- 

 lined, with a round white spot over the middle of the 

 tympiunm. North Africa. Mr. Eraser's Collection. 



j. Young (in spirits), like h. Algiers. Presented by John 

 Doubleday, Esq. 



/■. Young (in spirits). Asia Minor. Presented by A. 



Christie, Esq. 

 Emys Pannonica, Michahelles. 



