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BULLETIN 5S, UNITED STATEb NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



provinces of Awaji, Biiij:;o, Siiwa, and Chikuzen. 

 Sciences in St. Petersbiirji; has it from Tsushima. 



The Academy of 



a P. 495. 



6 Second year; figs. 382-383. 



<^ Recently hatched. 



d Recently hatched; flg. 384. 



<■ Third year: description, p. 493. 



/Third year. 

 g Second year. 



Genus GEOCLEMYS" Gray. 



1855. Geocletnys Gray, Cat. Shield Rept. Brit. Mus. , 1855, p. 17 (type, G. hamil- 



tonii). 

 1869. Dainonin Gray, Proc. Zool. Sue. London, 1869, \). 193 (type, D. macro- 



cephala=G. subtrijuga). 



In his Catalogue of Shielded Reptiles (1855) Gray first established 

 the genus Geoclemys for the following sj)ecies, without indicating a 



G. hamiltonii. G. seba. G. muMenhergii. 



G. reevesii. G. pulcliella. G. guttata. 



Two years later Agassiz '' made each of the last three species a type 

 of separate genera, respectively Glyptemys, Calemys, and Nanemys. 



G. seba is a s3^nonym of Kmys tri/juga Gray (1855) which he himself 

 in 1869 ''■ made the type of his new genus Melanocheh/fi. 



a From yij, earth, land; and clemys, erroneous for /<Af////L'?, a turtle. 

 feContr. Nat. Hist. U. S., I, 1857. 

 cProc. Zool. Soc. London, 18G9, p. 187. 



