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undivided, strongly arched and curved inwards below. Shields of 

 a warm golden-brown colour, some of them bearing small eccentric 

 black marks; axillary and inguinal shields well developed. 



Plastron large, of the same colour as the carapace, with a few 

 scattered black spots ; bridge longer than either anterior or pos- 

 terior lobe; the former truncate and slightly retroverted in front, 

 the latter deeply notched behind. Gulars very large, the suture 

 between them equal to the median humeral and pectoral sutures together 

 or to the median femoral suture; suture between the pectorals a 

 little longer than that between the humerals; that between the 

 abdominals much the longest ; anals forming a short suture. 



Head pale yellow (in spirit), of moderate size; a pair of very 

 large praefrontals covering the snout, followed behind by a much 

 smaller frontal with a pair of shields considerably longer than 

 itself disposed symmetrically one on either side of it; occipital 

 region covered with small irregular shields. Jaws by no means 

 strongly hooked or prominent ; upper jaw feebly tricuspid. 



Limbs not very powerful. Fore limbs with five claws, covered 

 with well-developed scales ; those on the dorsal surface irregular in 

 size, with three very much larger than the others; outer edge of the 

 limb with strongly projecting, imbricate, claw-like scales. Hind 

 limb devoid of femoral spurs; some relatively small projecting 

 tubercles on the heels. 



Tail moderate, ending in a claw-like spur. 

 Skull closely resembling that of T. elongata but with the ter- 

 minal tooth of both jaws shorter. 



Type ( 2 ). No. 11379. Rept. Ind. Mus. 

 Habitat.— C\\Qiha.ss2i (Singhbhum) district, Chota Nagpur. 

 Closely as this species is related to T. elongata, it can be recog- 

 nized by the straight and parallel sides and abrupt posterior region 

 of its shell, the plane (non-convex) costal region and the large 

 gular shields. The cephalic shields and the scales on the dorsal 

 surface of the fore-feet are also different. The same characters 

 will separate it from T. travancorica. The type is an adolescent 

 female in spirit from which I have had the skull removed. Its 

 shell is 185 mm. long. It is unfortunate that only a single speci- 

 men is available. I have been attempting in vain for some years to 

 obtain more material ; but our series of T. elongata is a large one 

 and no confusion with any other species is possible. In T. travan- 

 corica the gulars are shorter than in T. elongata and the frontal 

 shield is even larger, unless, as is sometimes the case, it is broken 

 up irregularly into several scales. 



Family TRIONYCHIDAE. 

 Emyda granosa intermedia, Annandale. 

 Emyda granosa intermedia, Annandale, Rec. Ind. Mus., VII, p. 

 171, pi. vi, fig. 3 and p. 264 (1912). 



This race is apparently common all over Chota Nagpur. except 

 probably in the hills. I have recently obtained specimens from 



