HERPETOLOGY OF JAPAN. 



List of specimens of Geoeinyda spengleri. 



503 



" Description, p. 501. 



Genus CYCLEMYSa Bell. 



1830. Sternothaerus Wagler, Nat. Syst. Amph., p. 137 (type, S. trifasdatus) (not 

 of Bell, 1825). 



1834. Cyclemys Bell, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, June, 1834, p. 17 (type, C. orbi- 

 culata). 



1855. Cuora Gray, Cat. Shield Kept. Brit. Mus., I, p. 41 (type, C. amboinensis). 



1863. Cistodemmys Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1863, p. 175. (type, C. flavo- 

 marginata). 



1863. Py.riclemmy's Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1863, p. 176 (type, Cuora 

 tiifasciata). 



1870. Cystoclemmys Gray, Suppl. Cat. Shield Rept. Brit. Mus., p. 20 (emenda- 

 tion) . 



CYCLEMYS FLAVOMARGINATA& Gray. 



Plate XXXIII. 



1863. Cistodemmys flavomarginata Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1863, p. 175 

 (type-locality, Tamsui , Formosa; type in Brit. Mus. ; Swinhoe, collector). — 

 SwiNHOE, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3), XII, 1863, p. 220 (Tamsui).— Cwora 

 flavomarginata Guenther, Rept. Brit. India, 1864, p. 13, pi. v, fig. Ac 

 (Tamsui). — Cystodemmys flavomarginata Gray, Suppl. Cat. Shield Rept. 

 Brit. Mus., 1870, p. 20 (China; Formosa). — Cydemys flavomarginata 

 BouLENGER, Cat. Chel. Brit. Mus., 1889, p. 135 (Tamsui, Formosa; 

 China?). 



1891. Cuora amboinensis Okada, Cat. Vert. Japan, p. 72 (Yaeyama) (not of Dau- 

 din). — Emys amboinensis Fritze, Zool. Jahrb. Syst., VII, 1894, p. 864; 

 author's separate, p. 15 (Yaeyama). 



Description. — Adult jemale; U.S. N.M. No. 34077; Isliigaki shima, 

 Riu Kiu Archipelago; 1899; A. Owston collection. Snout short, not 

 projecting, lateral profile vertical, straight; edges of jaws not denticu- 

 lated, upper jaw feebly hooked niesially, without notches; triturat- 

 ing surface of upper jaw moderately wide, without any longitudinal 

 ridge; mandibular symphysis shorter than length of eye slit; head 

 above covered with smooth skin; body not at all depressed, its depth 

 being considerably more than one-half its width; carapace slightly 



a From kvkXo<;, circle; euv<;, river turtle. 



& Signifying margined with yellow. 



c Reproduced in this work on Plate XXXIII. 



