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Batagur, Oray. 



Thorax and sternum united into a solid case. Sternum flat in 

 both sexes. Toes five before, four behind, fully webbed. Shell 

 depressed. Habits wholly aquatic. Food mainly vegetable. 

 Eggs large, cylindrical numerous. Animal of medium or large 

 size aflectins: the sea and estuaries as well as rivers. Flesh 

 excellent as food. 



B. kachuga, Buch., Ham. 

 Emys kachuga, Oray. Illust., Ind. Zool. 

 Emys lineata, Gray. Syn. Rep., p. 23. 

 Kachuga lineata, Gray. Sup. Cat., S. R. 



Nuchal plate broad. Three anterior vertebrals squarish, the 

 fovirth much longer than broad, all keeled in young individuals, 

 but the keel disappears with age. The hind margins of the 

 post-gulars meet at an Obtuse angle. The greatest depth of the 

 shell is at the anterior portion of the third vertebral. Colour 

 above uniform greenish olive brown. Beneath yellowish. Back 

 of the neck pale brown, with seven red brown streaks. The side 

 of the face and temple bluish. The chin with two yellow spots 

 on the side. Grows to 24 inches. 



Inhabits Bengal, Nipal, and the North- Western Provinces, 

 Pegu and Tenasserim. 



In the Proceedings, As. Soc, Bengal, for March 1874, p. 83, 

 I inadvertently state that this species does not occur in Pegu 

 which is an error, though it does not affect my argument, as I 

 had no skull of it in my collection, and the only specimens I ever 

 obtained were a young one at Tonghu (shell only), and the aged 

 specimen noticed by Giinther in his Mon. Ind. Rep., p. 39, from 

 Moulmein. 



B. aifinis, Giinther. Monog., p. 40, pi. 3 f. c. c. 

 Kachuga affunis. Gray. P. Z. S., 1869, p. 203. 

 Gantorella affinis. Gray. Sup., Cat. S. R., p. 58, 

 E. trivittata, D. et B., apud Cantor. 



Nuchal plate none. The first and second vertebrals broader 

 than long. Fourth not much longer than broad. All the verte- 



