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Shell hemispherical, slightly three-keeled, blackish, margin 

 broad expanded ; nuchal shield linear ; sternum black and yellow 

 varied; animal blackish, yellow-varied, head dark, with two broad 

 yellow streaks on the side. 

 a Adult, stuffed, 6^ inches. India. Presented by Thos. Bell, 



Esq., F.RS. 



b. Young, head and feet dry, 3-keeled, 2f inches. Illustr. Ind. 



Zool t. 6. Presented by J. E. Gray, Esq. 



c. fy d. Young, in spirits, the youngest with granular shields, and 



the costal shields with a keel rather above the centre. Philip- 

 pine Islands, from Mr. Cuming's collection. 



e. Half-grown, stuffed. Singapore. 



J. Adultin spirits. Amboina, from the Leyden Museum. 



The Three-streaked Coura. Cistudo trifasciata, Gray, 

 Syn. 19 Illust. Ind. Zool. t. Dum. et Bib. E. G. ii. 219. 



Sternotherus trifasciatus, Bell, Zool. Jour. ii. 299, t. 13. Emvs 

 Couro, var. Schlegel, F. Japon. 64. 



Shell subovate, hemispherical, solid, keeled, dull yellow, red 

 and black varied, with three blackish dorsal streaks ; sternum bi- 

 fid behind ; head yellow, with two horizontal black streaks on the 

 side of the head and neck, upper wider, with a triangular paler 

 spot in front and two larger oval ones behind. 



a. Shell and dry animal. Shell subovate. China. Presented 



by J. Reeves, Esq. Ditto, upper shell only. 



b. Shell only. Shell depressed and expanded. China. Pre- 



sented by J. Reeves, Esq. 



c. Shell only. Shell elevated, thick, worn on the surface. China. 



Presented by J. Reeves, Esq. 



d. Upper shell only, like a. China. 



b. Shell depressed, edge entire. Lutremys. 



The Speckled Toetoise. Cistudo Europtea, Gray, Syn. 

 12. Dum. et Bib. E. Gen. ii. 220. Eich. Fauna Casp. Vauc. 

 44. Schlegel, F. Japon. 52. Testudo Europaea, Schw. Schildk. 

 323. Shaw, Zool. iii. t. 8. Schoepf. t. 1. Bojanus, Anat. t. 

 Sturm, Fauna, t. a, b, c. Wagler, Amph. t. 5, /. 8, 9. T. flava, 

 Lacep. Q. O. 135, t. 6. T. punctata, Gottw. Schildk. t. k, /. 12. 

 T. orbicularis, Linn. S. N. i. 351. Wulf. Borus. 3. T. lutraria, 

 Rondel. Pise. ii. 170. Gesner, Q. O. ii. 113, f. 5. Aldrov. 710. 

 Br'unn. Adriat. 91. Herm. T. pulchella, Schoepf. t. 26, young. 

 T. Meleagris, Shcnv, Nat. Misc. iv. 144, (shell polislied). Emvs 

 Hellenica, Valenc. Voy. Morea, t. 8, /. 2. E. autiquorum, Val. 

 Voy. Morea, t. 8,/. 1. 



Shell depressed, ovate, brown, with radiating lines of yellow 



