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dhongoka of Gray and. myself, but trivittata, D. et B., apud me, 

 passim, and the lineata {—hilineata and Peguensis) of Dr. Gray. 

 No specimens of dhongoJca from Moulmein or anywhere east of 

 the Bay of Bengal existed in the Museum of the Asiatic Society 

 at the date of my Catalogue 1868, and no specimen whatever of 

 trivittata, D. et B. for comparison, so that it seems probable that 

 Mr. Blyth identified from memory only, the ^-stTiped Burmese 

 form ' trivittata,' with the ^-striped Bengal representative species 

 ' dhongoka^ no specimens of which to my knowledge have to 

 this time been received from Burmah. Dr. Gray adds it is an 

 ' estuarine ' species, which is also, I believe an error, as its habi- 

 tat is away from the sea, as Dr. Gray might have inferred from 

 the Habitat ' Nipal.' In his monograph the usually accurate 

 Gunther, cites only the Ganges, Nipal, and Assam, though from 

 the fatality which seems to attach to Indian geography when 

 touched on by English naturalists at home, he places ' Sooltan- 

 pore (Lahore)' on the Ganges (instead of on the Ravi, a tributary 

 of the Indus), unless Lahore is a misprint for Lahool, only in that 

 case the ' Sooltanpore ' in question happens to be on the Bias in 

 Kulu, of which (and not of Lahool), it is the capital ! 



Dr. Gray also quotes a large specimen in the British Museum 

 as coming from ' Moulmein ' without specifying particulars, but 

 very slight weight can attach to such an authority, when opposed 

 to all that is positively known as regards the distribution of the 

 species. 



B. Thurgi, Gray. 



Hardella Thurgi, Gray. Sup., Cat. S. R., p. 58, 

 Cachuga Oldhami, Gray. P. Z. S., 1869, p. 200. 

 H. Indi, Gray. Sup., Cat. S. R., p, 58. 



Nuchal plate triangular. Shell depressed with an interrupted 

 median ridge. Crown of head lead colored, mottled with yellow, 

 lower jaw primrose. A bright yellow patch from nostrils to 

 below eye, and a yellow line from nostrils to tympanum. Colour 

 of shell uniform, deep brown, almost black, plates below, edged 

 with yellow. Grows to 22 inches. 



