fl. T)\iinNi\. 



o: 



from the loreal region to tlic angle of the ranutli ; two or four 

 vertied yellow streaks below the nostrils ; a V- <>r Y-shajjcil 

 yellow marking on each side of the mandible ; sides of neck willi 

 yellow streaks. 



Length of shell 20 contim. 

 Siam, Caraboja, Java. 



a, b. Ilgi-., stffd. 



c. Yg., dry. 



d. Yg., shell. 



e. Yg., spir. 



f,ff- ?& .vg., stffd. 



h. Yg., shell. 



2. (S, St ltd. 



k. Yg., spir. 



I. Yg., spir. 



m. 2) sliel.* 



71, 0. 5 & hgr., skel. 



Siam. 



Siam. 



Siam. 



Siam. 



Cambiija. 



Cainboja. 



Batavia. 



Iktavia. 



-J 



M. IMouhot [C.]. (Typos of O. 



macrocophala.) 

 M. ISIouhot [G: 

 M. Mouhot [C 

 W. 11. Newman, Esq. [P.]- 

 M. Mouhot [C.]. 



(Type of D. ohhm/a.) 



Dr. Bleeker. (As Cidud) f/iViosn.) 



(Specimen mentioned by Gray as 

 Emys siihtrijiKja.) 



3. Damonia reevesii. 



Em^s reevesii, Graif, Si/n. Ri-pt. p. 73 (18ol) ; Bum. c^- Bibr.u 

 p". ;il3 (1835); GrayX'at. Tort. p. 18 (18-14); Gunth. licpt. Brit 

 Ind. p. 29 (1864) ; Rutimeyer, Verh. Nuturf. Ges. Basel, vi. p. 4^ 



t. 



48 



(1873). 



vulgaris picta, Schley. Ahbild. p. 127, pi. xhi. (1844), 

 japonica, A. IJum. Cat. Meth. liept. p. 8 (1851), 



and Arch. 



3f»s.\i. p. 220 (1852). 

 Geoclemmys reevesii, Gray, Cat. Sh. liept. i. p, 18, pi. v. (1855). 

 Clemmys reevesii, Strauch, Chelon. Stud. p. 104 (18()2). 

 Damonia reevesii, Gray, Froc. Zool. Sue. 1869, p. 194, and Suppl. 



Cat. Sh. Rept. i. p. 44 (1870), and Ann. 8f May. N. 11. (4) xi. 



p. 148(1873). 



Carapace depressed, tricarinate, posterior border not serrated ; 

 nuchal small, posterior border usitally notched ; vertebrals 2 to 4 

 broader than long, a little narrower than the costals. Plastron 

 large, flat in both sexes, angulated laterally, posterior lobe narrower 

 than the opening of the shell (especially in the male), nearly as long 

 as the bridge is wide, deeply notched posteriorly ; the abdominal 

 shields form the longest median suture; the suture between the 

 gulars longer than that between the humerals ; axillary and inguinal 

 shields present. Head rather large ; snout projecting ; upper jaw 

 scarcely emarginate mesially ; the width of the mandible at the 

 symphysis is a little less than the horizontal diameter of the orbit ; 

 four large shields on the head — one round the upper jaw, one 

 covering the snout and the crown, and one on each side between 

 the eye and the ear. Digits w^ebbed to the claws. Tail one third 

 to half the length of the shell. Carapace brown : plastron yellowish, 

 each shield with a large dark brown blotch, or dark brown with the 



* Tlie skull attached to this specimen bslongs to Nicoria trijuya ! 



