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brals smooth. Colour above yellowisli green with three broad 

 longitudinal black bands. Below yellowish. A large black blotch 

 on the upper anterior angle of each marginal plate. Grows to 18 

 inches, and probably more. 



Inhabits the Malayan Peninsula and probably ranges into 

 Tenasserim. 



B. trivittata, D. et B. 



Kachuga Peguensis, Gray = female. 



B. lineata, Gray. P. Z. S., 18G1, p. 164. 



Kachuga trilineata, Gray. Sup., Cat. S. R., p. 54, 



B. dhongoha, Blyth. J. A. S., B., 1863, p. 84. 



A nuchal plate always present. Adult male, neck yellow, 

 head covered with a smooth vascular skin, of a deep flesh red, 

 fading instantly on death to a waxy white. On the forehead a 

 black lozenge-shaped plate, elongate behind. Iris straw colored, 

 lilotched with reddish orange. Shell above pale olive green, 

 with three conspicuous pitchy black bands down the back, 

 sometimes united at their ends. Beneath pale orange yellow. 

 Lenerth 20^ inches. 



Female. Skin uniform greenish olive. A black patch on fore- 

 head as in male, but no coloured vascular skin, shell above and 

 below uniform deep umber brown, with no markings whatever. 

 Length 23J inches. Lays in January and February 25 eggs ; 

 weight of eggs 965 grains ; length 2'60 inches. Oviposits in sand- 

 banks towards and above the top of the tideway (as at Zalon 

 on the Irawadi). 



Inhabits Pegu and Tenasserim, vide Catalogue of Reptiles, 

 British Burmah, in Linnean Society's Journal, Zoology, Vol. X. 



Owing to the careless use made by Dr. Gray of the materials 

 in his possession, and the habit he sometimes exhibits of relying 

 for matters of fact, rather on his own inner consciousness than 

 the testimony of others qualified to give evidence, there are few 

 species in a more perplexing state than this. During my resi- 

 dence in Burmah, I procured but one specimen of a female, the 

 one described by mo in the Journal Linnean Society, Vol. X, p, 14, 



