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BULLETIN 58, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Its occurrence in Korea was first recorded by Strauch from a 

 specimen collected by Doctor Bunge at Chenmlpo in 1890 and now in 

 the museum of the St. Petersburg Academy (No. 7907). Two other 

 specimens from Korea, only one of whicli has a definite locality, are 

 in our museum collected by Jouy and Bernadou, respectively. 



In Japan it seems to be rare and is probably restricted to the 

 southern part. It was the first addition to the herpetological fauna 

 of the country after the publication t)f the Fauna Japonica, and was 

 made public by Schlegel himself (as Emys vulgaris yida) from three 

 specimens collected by ]\Ir. Buerger, probably in Kiusiu. Since then 

 but few Japanese specimens have been recorded, mostly without 

 definite localities. I myself have only examined one from Kagoshima, 

 Satsuma, in Kiusiu. In the Hamburg Museum there are several 

 specimens collected by Doctor Lenz, in 1S96, in the province of Setsu, 

 Hondo (No. 188) . Okada records a turtle from Osaka as Emys? sinensis 

 which probably is the present species. British Museum has it from 

 Tsushima collected bv Hoist. 



List of S'pcnmnis of Geoclemys reevesii. 



a Description, p. 497; figs. .385- 



b Thrown out by the sea. 



Genus GEOEMYDA" Gray. 



1834. Geoemijda Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1834, p. JOO (type, Tcstudo speng- 



Jrri ) . 

 1836. Geoeniys BoNAr.'VRTE, Clielon. Tab. Anal., p. (! (einendation; same type). 

 1855. Nicoria Gray, Cat. Shield Ropt. Brit. Mus., I, p. 17 (same type). 

 1869. AManorhelys Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1869, p. 187 (type, M. Irijii(ja). 

 1876. Chaihassia Thkob.^ld, Cat. Ilept. lirit. India (p. 6) (type, Ch. tncariaala). 



The reason for adopting the name Geoemyda instead of Nicoria for 

 the present genus is the fact that G. siyengleri was specifically desig- 

 nated as the type when the genus was first established as demon- 

 strated bvme in detail on a former occasion.'' 



oFrom yi}, earth, land; and emyda, iorcmys, from ejavi, turtle. 

 b Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XV, Dec. 16, 1902, pp. 237-238. 



