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Show 1870.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON SPECIES OF RHINOCLEMMYS. 723 middle of each series of scales, extending along the upperside each toe. Fig. 3. Rhinoclemmys scabra, var. ? R H I N O C L E M M Y S SCABRA, var.? (Fig. 3.) With all the marks of the preceding; but the spots on the front of the eye are smaller, and the two diverging streaks are united together by a broad cross band on the front of the crown, just level with the back edge of the eye ; the spots on the occiput are larger and longer, forming short streaks ; the marks on the temple are similar, and not quite like the former. There are two very young specimens of this variety in spirits, which are quite alike as regards the bands on the crown ; but they differ a little in the distribution of the streaks on the sides of the temples. Fig. 4. R H I N O C L E M M Y S MEXICANA. (Fig. 4.) Head brown; crown with a broad, uniformly wide, semicircular band over the eyes ; the sides of the head varied with yellow, and dotted with black ; the chin and throat yellow, black-dotted. RHINOCLEMMYS ANNULATA. (Fig. 5.) Crown white, varied with black, forming rather a radiating symmetrical figure on the back of the crown, and with a white cross band on each side of the occiput; the temples with a broad white streak from the back edge of the orbit, and another from the front edge of the orbit, which are united together on the tympanum by a perpendicular streak behind, and then give off a streak that is continued along the side of the neck ; the sides and back of the neck black, with several broad white streaks, one arising from the centre |