ADDENDA ET COKKIGENDA. 133 



A List of the Reptiles of Borneo— Ad- 

 denda et Corrigenda.* 



P. 47. — Brookeia baileyi, Bartlett. 



This species must, now be known as Orlitia borneen- 

 sis, Gray. 0. bomeensis was most incompletely de- 

 scribed in 1873, from a very young mounted specimen, 

 collected by Bleeker at Sintang, Dutch Borneo. Boul- 

 enger subsequently relegated the species to the genus 

 Bellia, since the very immature specimens showed no 

 characters on which to base a sound generic diagnosis. 

 Adult specimens of this same species were later (1895 

 and 1897) described by Bartlett and Boulenger as 

 Brookeia baileyi and Liemys inofnata respectively. 

 A skull of this tortoise in the Zoological Institute, 

 Munich, was described by Baur in 1895 as Adelochelys 

 crassa and referred to the super-family Chelydroidea, 

 chiefly characteristic of the New \Yorld, and its habi- 

 tat guessed at as Costa Rica ! Finally Schenkel in 

 1901 suggested that Brookeia baileyi and Bellia bomeen- 

 sis were conspecilic, and pointing out the differences 

 between this species and a typical Bellia, revived 

 Gray's Genus Orlitia. I had already pointed out to 

 Mr. Boulenger the identity of his Liemys inornata with 

 Brookeia baileyi, and recently was able to obtain, 

 through the kindness of Mr. Bailey, of the Sarawak 

 service, a young specimen of this oft-described tor- 

 toise ; Mr. Boulenger has compared this with the type 

 of Orlitia bomeensis, itself a young specimen, and in a 

 letter he informs me that the two are identical. The 

 head and entoplastron alone shew that the species is not 

 a Bellia, but must occupy a genus by itself, for which the 

 name Orlitia has already been provided. 



* See this Journal No. 35, pp. 13-68, 1901. 

 K. A. Soc, No. 38, 1902. 



