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Records of the Indian Museum. 



[Voi. 1X3 



II. 



b. Nuchal shield present; gular 



suture as long as pectoral and 

 humeral sutures together 



c. Nuchal shield absent ; gular 



suture no longer than pectoral 



suture, which is not more than 



half as long as humeral suture 



B. Forehead with small, irregular 



shields; carapace with radiating 



yellow lines; spurs on hind 



thighs present or absent. 



a. Spurs on hind thighs well deve- 



loped; plastron with dark 

 radiating Hues well developed 

 on shields 



b. Spurs on hind thighs feeble; dark 



radiating lines absent from or 

 poorl}' developed on plastron 

 2. Supracaudal shields two. 



A. Antero-lateral border of second and 



third vertebral shields not or but 

 slightly shorter than postero- 

 lateral . . 



B. Antero-lateral borders of second and 



third vertebral shields much 

 shorter than postero-lateral 

 Species with four claws on the fore-feet. 



1. Carapace much depressed . . 



2. Carapace not depressed 



T . parallcliis. 



T. travancorica. 



T. eleoans. 



T. platynota. 



T . emvs. 



T. latinuchalis. 



T. horsfieldii. 

 T. baluchiorum. 



Testudo parallelus, sp. 



no v. 



Teshido clongata, Anderson {partim), Anat. Zool. Res. Yunnan^ 

 p. 712 (1879). 



The statement that Testudo elongata occurs in Peninsular 

 India, which is repeated in several revisions of the Testudinidae, ap- 

 pears to rest on a passage in Anderson's account of that species cited 

 above. He says that he obtained specimens from Chaibassa in Chota 

 Nagpur from Colonel Dalton. None of these specimens can now 

 be traced ; another from the same district differs in so many char- 

 acters from any individual in our long series of Burmese examples 

 that it must be recognized as the type of a new but closely allied 

 species, for which the name Testudo payallelus is proposed. 



Carapace long and narrow, about 2^ times as long as high and 

 i| times as long as broad; sides parallel; costal region steep, not at 

 all convex \ vertebral region hardly flattened hut by no means strongly 

 arched longitudinally ] posterior region convex backwards, descending 

 abruptly ; anterior and posterior margins retroverted and somewhat 

 feebly serrated. Nuchal narrow, with parallel sides, projecting 

 strongly in front; vertebral shields as in T. elongata; supracaudal 



