12 Catalogue of Reptiles.. 



This species is very common at Calcutta, and also about Rangoon. 

 It is herbivorous in a great measure, and is much used in Calcutta in 

 the manufacture of soup, which purpose no doubt it answers admira- 

 bly ; and I hope the admirers of Calcutta turtle soup will lose none of 

 their relish for the article, by knowing how largely i-iver turtle are 

 substituted for the true Chelan la virgata, which, however, is occasionally 

 brought to Calcutta from the Straits. 



BATAGUR, Gray. 



19. B. LiNEATUs, Gray. 



a. stuffed adult, 24 inches. 



No locality or donor is given for the sole specimen in the museum, 

 but Gunther records the species from Moulmein, Nepal, and Saharun- 

 pur, whence it had been procured by Dr. Falconer.* 



20. B. Thurgii, Gray. 



Emys Thurgii^ Gray. 



a. stuffed adult, 21 inches. Calcutta. E. Blyth^ Esq. 



h. c. smaller, stuffed. Ditto. 



d. e. half gi'own, ditto. Ditto. 



/. g, h. i, j. young ditto. Ditto. 



A very common species at Calcutta, though adults are not easily 

 got. It appears to mo more nearly affined to Batagux than to Emys» 



21. B. DHONGOKA, Gray. ^ 



E. Duvaucellii^ Dum. et Bih. 

 a. stuffed young. Narbudda R. 



h. ditto smaller. Sagur, Central Lieutenant Ro- 



India. berts. 



This species grows to a large size, but there are no adult specimens 

 in the museum. It is common at Monghyr. 



22. B. Berdmoreii, Blyth, J. A. S., XXXIL, p. 84. 



E, ocellata, D. et B. apud Gunther. 



E. ocellata^ D. et B. apud BIyth, J. A. S., XXII., p, 645. 



a. h. stuffed adults. Pegu. Major Berdmore. 



c. d. e. f. young, stuffed. Ditto. Ditto. 



This species is very abundant in Pegu and Tenasserim. Its habits 

 are strictly aquatic, not terrestrial as Gunther sui-mises, but it is often 

 left dry by the drying up in the hot weather of the inundated plains, in 

 which situations incredible numbers are captured by the Burmese, 

 who fire the grass for the purpose. It is never found in the dry forests. 

 Dr. Gunther remarks that Dumeril and Bibron's fi.gure, Plate 15, Fig. 

 1, is " not good," but it refers to an entlrehj different species, which may 

 account for its but indifferently representing the present I 



* No maps which Dr. Gunther had consulted givmo; him any light on the 

 subject, he amusingly enquires touching Saharuupur, "Is it another name for 

 Serampar on the Hooghly "'" 



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