204 ON TESTUDO EMYS AND ITS AFFINITIES. 



had the advantage of examining the typical specimen of 

 T. luxatus , and I think 7. luxatus synonymous with T. 

 emys J and the Java-form (if the specimen described by 

 Leconte was really captured in Java , which I think rather 

 problematical, as never one specimen of the genus Testudo 

 reached the Leyden Museum from Java) as identical with 

 the Sumatra-form. 



As to Manouria fusca Gray, perhaps it might be a spe- 

 cies differing from Testudo emys, or from Testudo Phayrei , 

 or from both of them , and peculiar to the peninsula of 

 Malacca or to the island of Pinang. Gray mentions as a 

 difference between the skull of 2. Phayrei and that of 

 Manouria fusca , that the former has a broad, well-developed 

 zygomatic arch , the arch in Manouria fusca being slender 

 and weak. When, however, the female specimen from 

 Pinang , mentioned under a in the Catalogue of Chelonians 

 in the British Museum , has its pectorals forming a suture 

 together, I should feel inclined to regard Manouria fusca 

 identical with Testudo Phayrei: if, on the contrary, its pec- 

 torals are separated from each other, Manouria fusca should 

 be nearer related with Testudo emys. 



Leyden Museum, February 1896. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES 5 AND 6. 



Testudo emys Schleg. & Mull. 



Fig. 1. Sternum of specimen d. ^) 

 » 2. » » » e. 



» 3. » » » c. 



» 4 and 5. Skull of specimen e. 

 » 6. Lower jaw of specimen e. 



1) Vide p. 203. 



Notes from tlie Lieyden IVXuseuin , Vol. XVII. 



