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TESTUDINIDJE. 



b. No nuchal ; forehead with small irregular 



shields. 



'. Heel and hinder side of thighs with spur- 

 like tubercles ; plastron with dark radia- 

 ting lines T. eleyans, p. 21 . 



b'. Heel and hinder side of thighs without 

 spur-like tubercles ; plastron without ra- 

 diating lines T. platynota, p. '22. 



B. Supracaudal shields two T. e.mys, p. 22. 



16. Testudo elongata. 



Testudo elongata, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxii, 1853, p. G39 ; Giinth. Rept. 

 B. /. p. 8 ; Theob. Cat. p. 3 ; Bouleny. Cat. C'/iel. fyc. p. 173. 



Shell considerably depressed, more than twice as long as deep, 

 with flat vertebral region ; anterior and posterior margins slightly 

 reverted, strongly serrated in young, feebly in old specimens ; shields 

 concentrically striated, except in old specimens ; nuchal present 

 (rarely absent), narrow and elongate ; supracaudal undivided, more 

 or less incurved ; first vertebral usually nearly as long as broad in 

 the adult, the others broader than long and nearly as broad as the 

 costals. Plastron large, truncate anteriorly, deeply notched poste- 

 riorly; suture between the pectoral shields as long as or longer than 

 that between the numerals : suture between the gulars as long as or 

 a little shorter than that between the pectorals ; anals forming a very 

 short suture, or entirely separated by the anal notch ; axillary and 

 inguinal moderate. Head moderate; a pair of large pnefronlal 

 shields, usually followed by a nearly equally large frontal ; beak 

 feebly hooked, tricuspid ; alveolar ridge of upper jaw short and 

 rather feeble. Anterior face of fore limbs with moderate, unequal- 

 sized, imbricate scales, which are largest towards the outer side ; no 

 enlarged tubercles on the thighs ; tail ending in a claw-like horny 

 tubercle. Carapace and plastron greenish yellow, each shield with 

 an irregular black spot or blotch, which may occupy its greater 

 portion, or may be much broken up or indistinct. 



Length of shell 10| inches. 



Hob. Bengal (Chaibassa), Assam, the whole of Burma, Camboja, 

 Cochin China. 



17. Testudo leithii. 



Testudo leithii, Giinth. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 502, figs. ; Theob. Cat. 

 p. 3 ; Bouleng. Cat. Chel. Sfc. p. 175. 



Shell very convex, not twice as long as deep, deeply notched 

 anteriorly ; nuchal shield triangular ; posterior border of supra- 

 caudal forming an angle, projecting beyond the marginals ; second 

 vertebral shield longest ; shields concentrically striated. Plastron 

 large, hind lobe notched behind and movable in the adult ; suture 

 between the pectoral shields a little shorter than that between the 

 numerals ; suture between the anals longer than that between the 



