9. DAMONIA. — 10. nia.LIA. 97 



5. Damonia nigricans. 



l"Juiv8 nigricans, Grai/, Prut: Zuol. Sue. 16o4, p. .0."!, und Cat. Turt. 



p.' 18 (1844) ; Giinih. liept. Brit. Lid. p. :2G (1864). 



iiij,n-i('aus, part., Orai/, Cat. >S/i. llcpf. i. ]>. I'O, pi. vi. (1855). 



Clemiuj.s iii|xric'an.s, Straucli, Cltelon. tSlml. p. ■V2 (1S(;2). 



Damonia uigrioaiis, part., Grat/, Proc. Zuol. Soc. 1800, p. 105, and 



S((pj)l. Cat. 67(. liept. i. p. 44 (1870). 



Carapace tcctiform, iinicarinatc, posterior border not serrated ; 

 nuchal very small or absent ; vertebral shields broader than long, a 

 little narrower than eostals. Plastron not augulated laterally, flat 

 in the male ; hind lobe narrower than the 0])cning of the shell, nearly 

 as long as the bridge is wide, deeply notched posteriorly ; the abdo- 

 minal shields form the longest median suture, the humerals the 

 shortest ; axillary and inguinal shields well developed. Head rather 

 small ; snout projecting ; u])per jaw scarcely notched mesially. 

 Digits webbed to the claws. Tail about two thirds Ihe length of 

 the shell. Carapace dark brown ; plastron yellow, black-spotted, 

 bridge black; marginals inferiorly half black, half yellow, the two 

 colours forming a festooned pattern. Head and limbs blackish ; 

 sides of head and neck with interrupted yellow streaks ; throat 

 yeUow, varied with black. 



Length of shell 11 ccntim. 



Southern China. 



a. 2 , ^liell. China. J. Reeves, Esq. [P.]. (Type.) 



b. cj , stU'd. ? Zoological Society. 



10. BELLIA. 



Emys, part., Dmn. ^- Pibr. ii. p. 2.32 (1835); Grat/, Cat. Turt. p. 14 

 (1844), and Sh. Kept. i. p. 10 (1855) ; Giinth. Bept. Brit. Ind. 

 p. 21 (1864). 



Clemmys, pait., Strauch, Oielon. Stud. p. 28 (1862). 



Bellia, Grai/, I'ruc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 107, and Suj)pl. Cat. Sh. Bept. 

 i. p. 34 (1870). 



Orlitia, Gra)/, Ami. ^- Mag. N. H. (4) xi. p. 15G (1873). 



Heteroclemmys, Peters, Man. Berl. Ac. 1874, p. 622. 



Neural plates hexagonal, short-sided in front. Plastron exten- 

 sively united to the carapace by suture, with long axillary and 

 inguinal biittresses, the latter anchyloscd between the fifth and sixth 

 costal jdates ; entoplastron intersected by the humero-pectoral suture. 

 Skull with a bony temporal arch ; alveolar sxirfaces "without median 

 ridge ; choana; between the eyes. Skin of hinder part of head 

 divided into small shields. Digits webbed. Tail very short, not 

 longer in the young than in the adult. 



Eurma, Siam, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 



