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verifying. For other remarks on this subject, see Pro, As, 

 Soc, Bengal, March 1874. 



B. dhongoka, Buch. Ham. 

 Emy's Dnvaucellii, D. et B. 



Bhongoha HardivicJdi, Gray. Sup,, Cat. S. R., p. .57, not 

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



Nuchal plate triangular, broad behind. Form similar to 

 Kachuga, but more depressed and ex[)anded behind. Vertebrals 

 keeled, the keel terminating on the second and third in a promi- 

 nent elongate knob. The hind margins of the postgulars form 

 a straight line, colour dark gray, with a black vertebral and two 

 lateral stripes. A yellow line from the nostril to the upper part 

 of the tympanum. Grows to 18 inches or more. 



Inhabits the Ganges, Assam, Nipal, and Central India, and 

 probably the Panjab. 



Dr. Gray gives Bay of Bengal, eastern side common, and 

 Pegu, and Moulmein as the habitat, but quite incorrectly, I 

 believe. Sup., Cat. S. R., p. 57. In the first place Dr. Gray is 

 wholly in error in quoting myself as his authority, thus " Pegu 

 (Theobald)" as I never during many years' residence ever saw 

 a specimen in Burmah, neither is the species included in my 

 Catalogue of the Reptiles of Pegu. Dr. Gray then adds : — " It 

 is not uufrequently brought to the Moulmein fish bazaar " (I. c.) 

 No authority is given, but the words are an unacknowledged 

 extract from a paper of Mr. Blyth, J. A. S., B., 1803, p. 84, and 

 the statement requires careful consideration. The words occur 

 under the head dhongoka, in a list of the testudinata of the 

 Burmese Provinces, and the question arises, what is the dhongoka 

 of the passage in question ? It is first to be noticed that the 

 allied kachuga ( = lineatus) is not included in the list; but as this 

 is not a common species in Burmah, it is not probably 

 the one in question. Blyth however quotes E. trivittata, I). 

 et. B., as a synonym ; and as this is an extremely abundant 

 species in Burmah, it seems reasonable to suppose that 

 the dhongoka of the above list of Blyth, was really not the 



