. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. HEEPETOLOGY OF JAPAN. 527 Reference has already been made to the specimen from northern Cliina, to which I apply the above name more because the locality is the same as that of the t}^e than because the description applies better to it than any of the others. It is quite likely that eventually A. maackii may turn out to be the same thing as the Peking form, in which case that name will take precedence. At present, however, I deem it the wisest course to enumerate them separately. If Ford's elegant figures of the half-grown specimen in Britis
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. HEEPETOLOGY OF JAPAN. 527 Reference has already been made to the specimen from northern Cliina, to which I apply the above name more because the locality is the same as that of the t}^e than because the description applies better to it than any of the others. It is quite likely that eventually A. maackii may turn out to be the same thing as the Peking form, in which case that name will take precedence. At present, however, I deem it the wisest course to enumerate them separately. If Ford's elegant figures of the half-grown specimen in British Museum, from "China,"'* are as accurate as they are artistic, they. Fig. 407.—Amyda schlegelii. i X nat. size. View from above. No. 29700, probably represent an individual of the present species. The dorsal keel, the tubercular ridges, and the coloration agree completely with our north China specimen, and especially the great depth of the body as shown in the upper figure. Expressed in per cent of the total length of the carapace, the depth is nearly 36, or in excess of the cor- responding percentage in our male specimen of ^4. schlegelii (see table p. 516). Description.— Male, third year; No. 29700; north Cliina, between Tientsin and Peking; 1901; M. L. Eobb, collector (figs. a Cat. Shield Rept. Brit. Mus., 1855, pi. xxxi. in this work, fig. 406, on p. 522. Oatline of upper figure reproduced. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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