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TESTUDINIDjE. 



Shell much depressed, the depression increasing from before 

 backwards, the shell being somewhat expanded across the inguinal 

 region ; only the posterior border serrated ; second vertebral about 

 as long as broad, narrower than the costals ; nuchal longer than 

 broad. Plastral shields as in G. sjwiosa and G. gnindis. Carapace 

 light brown ; plastron and lower surface of marginals yellow, the 

 plastral shields with a few broad black rays ; the interval between 

 the axillary and inguinal notches black. Head leaden, ueck pale 

 yellowish brown ; limbs of the latter colour, with the large scales 

 dark, almost black. 



Length of carapace 9| inches. 



Hab. Hills near Akyab, Arrakan. 



Genus NICORIA, 

 Gray, Cat. Sh. Eept. i, p. 17 (1855). 



Neural plates mostly hexagonal, with the hinder lateral margins 



Fig. 9. — Shell oi Nicoria tr/Juga. 



shortest, or alternately tetragonal and octagonal. Plastron more or 

 less extensively united to the carapace by suture, with short axillary 



