. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. 92 FOSSIL TURTLES OF NORTH AMERICA. Boremys pulchra Lambe. Figs. 88, 89. Ba'ena hatcheri, Lambe, Geol. Surv. Canada, Contrib. to Canad. Palaeont., Ill (4 to), pt. 2, 1902, p. 43, fig. 8. Ba'ena pulchra, Lambe, Ottawa Naturalist, XIX, 1906, p. 187, plate iii, fig. 4; pi. iv. Boremys pulchra, Lambe, Ottawa Naturalist, XIX, 1906, p. 232. The type of the present species belongs in the collection of the Geological Survey of Canada. It, together with at least one other specimen, was collected by Mr. Lawrence M. Lambe, of the Survey, from beds belongi
. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. 92 FOSSIL TURTLES OF NORTH AMERICA. Boremys pulchra Lambe. Figs. 88, 89. Ba'ena hatcheri, Lambe, Geol. Surv. Canada, Contrib. to Canad. Palaeont., Ill (4 to), pt. 2, 1902, p. 43, fig. 8. Ba'ena pulchra, Lambe, Ottawa Naturalist, XIX, 1906, p. 187, plate iii, fig. 4; pi. iv. Boremys pulchra, Lambe, Ottawa Naturalist, XIX, 1906, p. 232. The type of the present species belongs in the collection of the Geological Survey of Canada. It, together with at least one other specimen, was collected by Mr. Lawrence M. Lambe, of the Survey, from beds belonging to the Belly River series, equivalent to the Judith River beds. The locality is the mouth of Berry Creek, on the Red Deer River, Alberta. The type consists of the anterior half of the carapace and the complete plastron. The other specimen furnishes the anterior portion of the carapace only. Through the kindness of the discoverer of the species the writer lias had the opportunity of examining Fig. 88.—Boremys pulchra. Carapace of type. 1 From Lambe's figure. pren, preneural; jw, supramarginal scutes. The specimen was originally referred to Ba'ena hatcheri for the reasons that it was not then generally accepted that the Judith River formation was distinct from the Laramie, that the specimen is somewhat crusht, that it resembles in various ways B. hatcheri; and for the reason finally that the presence of the supramarginals was then overlookt. The broader front of the carapace was noted and caused some hesitation. The presence of the supramarginals and the small preneural makes the separation of the species as the type of a new genus justifiable. The type specimen was a rather small individual, having close to three-fifths the length of the type of Ba'ena riparia and a little more than one-half that of B. hatcheri. The carapace (fig. 88) had a length of about 195 mm. It is doubtful whether the width has been increast by the crushing to which it was subjected. The front of
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