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CATALOGUE OF SHIELD REPTILES. 



Osteology : — 



b. Shell of half-grown. Vertebral plates obscurely keeled ; 



sides not quite ossified. Tanks and nullahs near 

 Saharumpoor. Presented by Dr. Falconer. 



c. Adult (shell). Dark olive above; vertebral plates not 



keeled ; sides quite ossified. Nepaul. Presented by 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



d. Very young (plate only the size of the areola) ; second 



and third vertebraf plates nodose ; hinder margin of 

 shell subdentate. India. Capt. Boys' Collection. 



Like B. Baslia, but differs in the number and size of the 

 claws, and also in the shell becoming entirely solidified 

 when only half the size. 



3. Batagiir Dhongoka. The Dhongoka. Tab. XVIII. 



Olive, with three black streaks ; vertebral plates keeled ; 

 first, second and fourth urceolate, longer than broad ; third 

 as broad as long ; sternum deeply notched behind ; gular 

 plate triangular ; the anal plates rather shorter than broad. 



Emys Dhongoka, Gray, Illust. hid. ZooL ii. t. , cop. 

 Testudo Dhongoka, B. Hamilton, MSS. 

 E. lineata, var., Bum. ^ Bib. Erp. Gen. ii. 335 ; Cat. MM. 

 R. 1.5. 



Grni/, Cat. Tort. B.M. 17. 

 E. tectum, var.? Schlegel, F. Japan. 51. 

 E. Duvaucellii, Dion. ^- Bib. Erp. Gen. ii. 334 ; Cat. Meth. 

 B. 14. 



Gray, Cat. Tort. B.M. 15. 

 Hardw. Icon. ined. Rept. t. 2. 



Hab. India ; Nepaul. 



a. Young (stuffed). Olive, with three black streaks, and 



sides of the back darker ; vertebral plates keeled ; the 

 second and third tubercular on the hinder edge. India ; 

 Ganges at Sultanpoor, near Benares. Tab. XVIII. 



Emys trivitCata, Bum. ^- Bib. Erp. Gen. ii. 331 ; Cat. Meth. 

 R. 14. 



Cantor, Rept. Malay. 4. 

 Gray, Cat. Tort. B.M. 17. 



Osteology. Tab. XXXVI. fig. 1, skull. 



b. Adult (shell only). The three streaks narrower and less 



distinct ; vertebral plates obscurely keeled. India. 



c. Adult (upper shell only). Second vertebral plate pro- 



duced, angular behind. Nepaul. Presented by B. 

 H. Hodgson, Esq. 



d. Adult (upper shell only). The second vertebral plate 



rather truncated. Nepaul. PresentedbyB. H.Hodg- 

 son, Esq. 



e. Skull. Nepaul. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



Tab. XXXVI. fig. 1. 



/. Adult shell, broken on the sides. India. From the 



Zoological Society. 

 " Emys Duvaucellii," Bibron, MSS. Cat. Zool. Sac. 



g. Half-grown shell, narrow. Hinder edge serrated ; second 

 vertebral plate vrith a very distinct, acute, spine-Uke 

 keel. India. From the Zoological Society. 



Emys lineata, Bibron, MSS. Cat. Zool. Soc. 



The figures in the Illustrations of Indian Zoology are 

 from a young specimen with rather deformed vertebral 

 plates. 



4. Batagnu^ oceUata. The Eyed Emys. 

 Shell entire, nearly hemispherical (keeled when young) ; 

 dorsal plates brown, each marked with a yellow-edged 

 black spot ; vertebral plates : first pentagonal, rest six- 

 sided ; tail short ; jaws toothed. 



Emys ocellata. Bum. ^ Bib. Erp. Gen. ii. 329. t. 15. f. 1 ; 

 Cat. Meth. K. 14. 



Gray, Cat. Tort. B.M. 18. 



Hab. India; Bengal (^e/an^e;'). Mus. Paris. 



*** Claws 5-4, small, weak. Back high, subangular. 

 Pangshura. 



5. Batagur tecta. The Pangshure. 

 Shell ovate oblong, solid, ohve, with a central interrupted 

 red streak ; back angidarly elevated, compressed ; vertebral 

 shields elongated, six-sided ; the first, second and third 

 keeled, each produced and subtubercular behind ; margin 

 quite entire, sheh-ing ; sternum flat, keeled, sides high, 

 sloping, pale, vrith regular black spots. Head ohve, with 

 two broad orange converging streaks ; neck with close olive 

 lines. 



Emys tecta. Bell, Test. t. 1. f. 1-4. 



Gray, Syn. 23. t. 25; Ilhcst. Ltd. Zool. ii. t. 72. f. 1, 2 ; 



Cat. Tort. B.M. 15. 

 Bum. ^- Bib. Erp. Gen. ii. 321 ; Cat. Meth. R. 14. 

 Schlegel, F. Jajion. 51. 

 E. trigibbosa. Lesson, Bull. Sci. Nat. xxv. 121. 



Bclauger, Voy. 29. 

 Testudo Pangshure, no. 4, aud T. Khagraskata, no. \ii, B. 

 Hamilton, MSS., cop. Gray, III. Ltd. Zool. 



Hab. India ; Bengal. 



a, b, c. Adult (stuffed). India. From M. Piquot's Col- 

 lection. 



d. Adult (in spirits). India. 



e. Adult (stuffed). India. Presented by Dr. J. E. Gray. 



Legs covered with broad thin shields in front, fringed on 

 the outer side ; the toes with a series of small, narrow, 

 six-sided shields on the middle of the upper surface. 



Schlegel regards E. lineata, E. Batagur, E. Bhongoka 



