50 EMYS SUBTRIJUOA. 



ning countries, but it must be remenbered that this is 

 the case with other animals both amongst birds and mam- 

 mals as well. 



Strauch in his zoogeographical monograph »die Verthei- 

 lung der Schildkröten über den Erdball", Petersburg 1865, 

 briefly notices Gray's Geodemys macrocephala as coming from 

 Siam and Cambodja (p. 66) but was not aware of the 

 identity with E. subtrijuga above referred to , nor did he 

 notice that E. subtrijuga Schlegel 4' Midler, which was 

 not circumstantially characterized when the species was first 

 introduced under this name in the » Verhandelingen etc.", 

 had formerly been described more elaborately in the Fauna 

 Japonica. 



Noteei trom the Leyden IMuseum , Vol. lU. 



