106 



TESTtTDlNID^. 



a. Yg., spir. 



6, c. Yg., skel. 

 d. Ilgr., shell. 

 e-f. Yg., spir. 



g-h. Yg., spir, 

 t-A;. 5 , spir. 

 I, m. (S9, stf=fd. 

 n. Yg., spir 

 o-s. d 2 , stffd. 

 <-M. Ilgr., spir. 



v,w,a,-. Ilgr.&yg., 



spir. 

 y. Hgr., stffcl. 



z,a. $ , skel. 

 iS. $, stffd. 

 y. $ , spir. 



Minfts de S. Domingo, 



Alemtejo. 

 Santa Marta (Murcia ?). 

 Europe. 

 N. Africa. 



Tangiers. 

 Morocco. 

 Algeria. 

 Algeria. 



Gambia. 



'^ 



Dr. Gadow [C.]. 



Dr. J. E. Gray [P.]. 



T. BeD, Esq. [P.]. 



INIr. Eraser [C.]. (Types of 



E. fraseri.) 

 M. H. Vaucher [0.]. 

 Zoological Society. 



E. Doubleday, Esq. [P.]. 

 (Types of E. laticeps.) 

 Zoological Soc. (Types of 



E. lan/oria.) 

 Zoi')logical Soc. 



E.Jlavipes.) 

 Zoological Soc. 



E. fidij/inosa.) 

 Zoological Soc. 

 Dr. J. E. Gray [P.]. 

 Lord A. Russell [P.] 



(Types of 

 (Type of 



3. Clemmys japonica. 



Emys vulgaris japonica, Schleg. Faun. Japon., Rept. p. 53, pis. viii., 



ix. (18.38), and Ahhild. p. 126, pi. xli. (1844). 

 japonica, Graij, Cat. Tort. p.'lO (1844) ; Gray, Cat. Sh. Rept. 



i. p. 22 (1855), and Suppl. p. 30 (1870). 



caspica, var. japonica, A. Uum. Cat. Meth. Rept. p. 8 (1851), 



and Arch. Mm. vi. p. 219 (1852). 

 Clemmys japonica, Strauch, Chelon. Stud. p. 32 (1862). 



Carapace rather strongly depressed, with an obtuse keel ; pos- 

 terior margin serrated ; each posterior marginal, in the young, 

 bicuspid ; vertebral shields much broader than long, nearly as broad 

 as the costals in the adult ; nuchal of moderate size. Plastron 

 large, scarcely concave in the male, truncate or openly emarginate 

 anteriorly, angularly notched posteriorly ; the width of the bridge 

 equals the length of the hind lobe ; the longest median suture is 

 that between the abdominal shields, the shortest that between the 

 humerals ; axillary and inguinal shields well developed, latter 

 largest. Head rather small ; upper jaw neither hooked nor notched ; 

 the width of the mandible at the symphysis is less than the hori- 

 zontal diameter of the orbit. Digits webbed to the claws. Tail 

 about as long as the carapace in the young, half as long in the 

 adult. Shell dark brown above, black interiorly ; in the young 

 the anterior and posterior plastral lobes narrowly margined with 

 yellowish ; soft parts olive-brown or blackish ; a pale brown streak 

 along the outer border of the limbs and a broad pale brown baud 

 along the upper surface of the tail. 



Length of shell 14 centim. 



Japan. 



a-b. c? & hgr., spir. 



c. Hgr., spir. 



d. Yg., spir. 



e-h. Yi 



3pU'. 



Japan. 

 Japan. 

 Kobe. 

 Yokohama. 



Leyden Museum. 



H.M.S. ' Challenger.' 

 H.M.S. ' Challenger.' 



