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limbs, and lower surface of hind limbs light, spotted or lineolated 
with black. 
Guatemala. 
a. 9, spir. Lake of Peten. O. Salvin, Esq. [C.]. 
Var. pulcherrima. 
Emys pulcherrima, Gray, Cat. Sh, Rept. i. p. 25, pl. xxv. fig. 1 (1855); 
Bocourt, Miss, Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 15, pl. vii. fig. 1 (1870); Giinth. 
Biol. C.-Am., Rept. p. 6, pls. vi. & viii. fig. A (1885). 
Clemmys pulcherrima, Strauch, Chelon. Stud. p. 32 (1862). 
Callichelys? pulcherrima, Gray, Ann. § Mag. N. H. (3) xii. p. 181 
(1863). 
Rhinoclemmys pulcherrima, Gray, Ann. & Mag. N. H, (4) xi. p. 145 
(1873). 
bocourti, Gray, l. c. p. 111. 
Chelopus pulcherrimus, Cope, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus, no. 82, p. 21 
(1887). 
Head olive above, with a narrow red streak round the upper part 
of the snout, terminating behind the supraciliary region ; two others 
run from eye to eye below the preceding, and a fourth round the 
upper jaw; a longitudinal streak of the same colour on the frontal 
region, and some spots on the occiput ; upper surface of neck with 
four (Bocourt) or five parallel red, black-edged, longitudinal streaks. ' 
Fore limbs and lower surface of hind limbs black and red. Shields 
of the carapace with curved yellowish dark-edged markings. 
Mexico. 
a. Yg., stffd. Mexico, (Type.) 
b-d. 2 & yg., spir. Presidio, Mr. Forrer [C.]. 
Var. incisa. 
Emys incisa, Bocourt, Ann. Se. Nat. x. p. 121 (1868), and Miss. Se. 
Mex., Rept. p. 11, pls. i. & 11. (1870); Giinth. Biol. C.-Am., Rept. 
. 7 (1885), 
iininoslomnye frontalis, Gray, Ann. § Mag. N. H, (4) xi. p. 144 
(1873). 
Chelopus incisus, Bocourt, Journ. de Zool. v. p. 387 (1876); Sumi- 
chrast, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1880, p. 165, 
Head and neck olive above; a fine red streak round the upper 
part of the snout and extending to above the ear; two others from 
eye to eye, below the preceding and above the nostrils, and a fourth 
round the upper jaw; sometimes a longitudinal streak of the same 
colour on the frontal region and another along each side of the neck. 
Fore limbs and lower surface of hind limbs black and red. Shields 
of the carapace sometimes with curved yellowish dark-edged streaks 
or ocelli. 
Mexico. 
