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upper and lower side of the ear, and the lower streak having a very 

 narrow black streak beneath it ; shoulder-streak none. Length of 

 head and body 5 inches, of tail 4 inches. 

 Hab. Cambojia (M. Mouhot). 



Trionyx ornatus. 



Back (of young animal in spirits) brown, with large unequal- 

 sized, irregularly disposed, black, circular spots. Head olive, with 

 symmetrical small black spots on the chin, forehead, and nose ; 

 throat and sides of neck with large, unequal-sized, irregular-shaped, 

 but nearly symmetrically disposed yellow spots. Legs olive yellow, 

 spotted in front. Sternum and under side of margin yellow ; sternal 

 callosities not developed. 



Hab. Cambojia (M. Mouhot). 



The species is very distinct in its colouring from the young of any 

 of the other Indian species ; and the colouring of the young animal 

 forms one of the best characters of the species of the genus. It is 

 most like the young of T.gangeticus; but the dorsal spots are solid, 

 not rings, and the head is olive, dotted with black. 



Geoemyda grandis. 



Shell oblong-elongate, dusky brown. Back keeled. Vertebral plates 

 elongate ; the first urn-shaped, bluntly keeled ; the fourth and fifth 

 y sharply keeled. Hinder edges strongly serrated. Nuchal plate di- 

 stinct. Sternum truncated in front, deeply notched behind (of male 

 very deeply concave). Head large. Claws very sharp and strong. 

 Length of shell 1 6 inches, width 1 1 inches. 



Hab. Cambojia (M. Mouhot). 



M. Mouhot sent also specimens of Testudo elongata, Geoemyda 

 spinosa, Emys crassicollis, and of three other species of Emydce ; 

 but the three latter are so young as not to be fit to describe, or to 

 -^ l determine if they are the young of already known species. 



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On Rusa Japonica, a new Species of Rusa Deer from Japan. 

 By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S., V.P.Z.S. 



Mr. J. Wilks has lately presented to the Zoological Society a pair 

 of Deer from Kanegawa in Japan ; they are widely different from 

 any species that has hitherto come under my observation, and may 

 be entered in the Catalogues as 



Rusa Japonica (Japan Rusa Deer). 



Size of a small Axis Deer. Both male and female are dark brown 

 with unequal and rather irregularly disposed round white spots ; 

 the series of spots on each side of the dark vertebral line close and 

 regular, forming two parallel lines. Legs, shoulders, and thighs brown, 

 not spotted. Anal disk and tail, and back edge of thighs, white ; 

 disk moderate, black-edged, especially above ; the tarsal gland, three- 

 quarters up the leg, large, dark yellow. Horn small, normal. The 



