PONTE TERMÉSZETRAJZI FÜZETEK. 1898. 
AN ACCOUNT OF THE REPTILES AND BATRACHIANS 
COLLECTED BY MR. LEWIS BIRÖ IN NEW GUINEA.* 
By pror. L. v. MÉHELY 
(in the National Museum, Budapest.) 
(Plate XII.) 
A few weeks ago the Hungarian National Museum received an inte- 
resting series of Reptiles and Batrachians collected by Mr. Lewis Bır6 in 
German New-Guinea (Kaiser Wilhelmsland). In the following pages I have 
given a list of all the species represented in this collection which contain 
many well known forms and also representatives of species new to science 
or not yet sufficiently known; thus affording a valuable addition to the 
Herpetology of Papuasia. 
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CHELONIA. 
Fam. CHELYDIDAE. 
1. Emydura Krefftii Gray. 
Chelymys Krefftii GRAY, «Notes on Australian Freshwater Tortoises» Ann. & 
Mag. Nat. Hist. London 1871 (4) VIII. p. 366; Gray «On the Genus Chelymys and 
its Allies from Australia» Proc. Zool. Soc. of London, 1872, p. 508, tab. XXVIII. 
Chelymys victoriae, part. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 506, fig. 2. 
Emydura Krefftii BourngscER, Catal. Chelonians, London 1889, p. 231. 
À shell with skull another with complete skeleton, from Erima (Astro- 
labe Bay). 
New to New Guinea. 
Carapace a short oval, its width contained about onee and one third 
in its length, feebly expanded posteriorly, slighthly convex, twice and three 
fourths to nearly three times as long as deep. Nuchal well developed, 
squarish, twice as long as broad; marginals not serrated; supracaudal 
* A M. Tud. Akadémia IIL-ik osztályának 1898. évi február 14.én tartott 
ülésében előterjesztette Dr. HoRVATH Géza r. tag. 
