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noticed and for a fuller description reference was given 

 to the Fauna japonica. Since then specimens of this spe- 

 cies have never reached Ley den nor was the province of 

 Bantam in the same time ever reexplored. 



On the other hand the species was found to inhabit 

 Siam , two specimens being sent from thence by M. Mou- 

 hot to the British Museum where they were described by 

 Gray (who failed to detect their identity with Schlegel 

 and Müller's Emys suhtrijuga) under the name of Geo^ 

 clemys macrocephala. Both his description and figure (Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1859) agree, even in minute detail, with the 

 three original specimens from Java and with their descrip- 

 tion in the Fauna Japonica, Other specimens were after- 

 wards noticed from Cambodja (P.Z.S. 1861) and in 1869 

 Geodemys macrocephala was placed by Gray in his genus 

 Damonia. In the Supplement to the Catalogue of Shield- 

 reptiles , published in 1870 , it again appears under this name 

 and amongst the synonymy a specimen is mentioned which 

 was received from the Utrecht Museum as E. trijuga. 



The latter is perhaps the same specimen which Giinther 

 mentions on p. 30 of his Reptiles of British India as ha- 

 ving come from Holland under the name of E. suhtrijuga. 

 Giinther remarked that this latter specimen was specifi- 

 cally distinct from E. trijuga but failed to recognize its 

 identity with E. macrocephala with which Gray in 1870 

 united what appears to have been the same specimen. Lea- 

 ving it at present undecided whether this was really an 

 E. suhtrijuga Schl. cj- M. — the type specimens being 

 all preserved in Leyden it could not have been one of 

 these — it appears to have rather augmented the confu- 

 sion than otherwise. Still after the above recapitulation 

 and the comparison of the three typical examples doubts 

 can no longer be entertained as to the identity of Emys 

 suhtrijuga Schl. cj- M. with Geodemys (Damonia) ma- 

 crocephala Gray. It is certainly curious that the distribu- 

 tion should be such as to make au animal from Siam re- 

 appear in Java, being apparently absent in the interve- 

 Notes troni Ihe Leydeza JMuseum, A^ol. Ill, 



