36 TESTUBINID^E. 



markings ; a yellow streak running above the canthus rostralis, 

 supraciliary edge and temple, and another from behind the eye to 

 above the ear. 



Length of shell : 3 6 inches, $ 9 inches. 



Hal. Burma. 



33. Morenia petersii. 



Emys ocellata (non D. & B.\ Blytli, J. A. S. B. xxvii, 1858, 



p. 281. 



Morenia ocellata, Theob. Cat. p. 18. 

 Batagur (Morenia) petersi, Anders. An. Zool. Res. Yunnan, p. 7G1, 



pi. lix. 

 Morenia petersii, Boulcng. Cat. Chel. fyc. p. G8. 



Very closely allied to the preceding. Snout much more pointed 

 and relatively longer. Suture between the pectorals not shorter 

 than that between the abdominals. Carapace black, each vertebral 

 with a narrow yellowish mesial line ; the last four vertebrals with 

 a yellowish linear horseshoe mark with the ends directed forwards ; 

 each costal with an ocellus placed rather low and formed by a 

 narrow yellowish line, above which are some irregular looped lines 

 of similar colour ; the nuchal and each marginal with a vertical 

 narrow yellowish mesial streak ; plastron yellow. Three yellow 

 streaks on each side of the head, the lower extending from below 

 the nostril to the angle of the mouth. 



Length of shell : <3 5 inches, $ 8 inches. 



Hob. Bengal. 



Genus HARDELLA, 

 Gray, Suppl. Cat. Sh. Kept, i, p. 58, 1870. 



Neural plates elongate, hexagonal, anterior lateral margins 

 shortest. Plastron extensively united to the carapace by suture, 

 with extremely developed axillary and inguinal buttresses, the for- 

 mer connected with the first rib, the latter anchylosed between the 

 fifth and sixth costal plates ; entoplastron anterior to the humero- 

 pectoral suture. Skull with a bony temporal arch ; alveolar surfaces 

 very broad, that of upper jaw with a strong tubercular median ridge ; 

 edge of jaws strongly toothed ; choanje behind the level of the 

 eyes. Upper surface of snout and crown covered with a single 

 shield, behind which the skin is corrugated. Digits extensively 

 webbed. Tail short. 



Distribution. Northern India. Thoroughly aquatic ; herbivorous. 



34. Hardella thnrgi. 



Emys thurjii, Gray, Syn. Sept. p. 22 ; id. 111. Ind. Zool. i, pi. Ixxiii. 

 Emys thurgii, Giinfh. Rept. B. I. p. 24. 



