14. NICORTA. 125 



limbs, and lower surface of hind limbs light, spotted or lineolated 

 with black. 

 Guatemala. 



a. 2 J spir. Lake of Peten. O. Salvin, Esq. [C.]. 



Var. pulclierriina. 



Emys pulcherrima, Grai/, Cat. Sh. Rept. i. p. 25, pi. xxv. fig. 1 (18o5); 



Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Me.v., Rept. p. 15, pi. vii. lig. 1 (1870); Giint/i. 



Biol C.-Am., Rept. p. 0, pis. vii. & viii. fig. A (1885). 

 Clemuiys pulcherrima, Strauch, Chelon. Stud. p. 32 (18(52). 

 Callichelys? pulcherrima, Graij, Ann. iy May. N. II. (3) xii. p. 181 



(18G.3). 

 Rhinoclemmvs pulcherrima, Gray, Ann. 8f Mag. N. II. (4) xi. p. 145 



(1873). 



bocourti. Gray, I. c. p. 111. 



Chelopus pulcherrimus, Cope, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 32, 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 tlie 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 blaclv and red. Shields 

 of the carapace with curved yellowish dark-edged markings. 



Mexico. 



a. Yg., stfFd. Mexico. (Tjpe.) 



h-d. § & yg., spir. Presidio. Mr. Forrer [C], 



Var. incisa. 



Emys incisa, Bocourt, Ann. Sc. Nat. x. p. 121 (1868), and Miss. Sc. 



Mex., Rept. p. 11, pis. i. & ii. (1870) ; Giinth. Biol. C.-Am., Rept. 



p. 7 (1885). 

 Ehiuoclemmys frontalis, Gray, Ann. Sf May. N. H. (4) xi. p. 144 



(1873). 

 Chelopus iucisus, 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. 



