1QI5. | N. ANNANDALE: Notes on Indian Chelonia. Ig1 
the Nallamalai range of the Eastern Ghats, where they were dug 
from the mud in the bed of a pool in January or February. 
The evidence for the occurrence of this species in the Ganges 
or the Indus is not satisfactory. Murray’s specimens from Sind 
assigned provisionally to it by Boulenger, apparently on the 
grounds of probability only, were almost certainly representatives 
of T. gangeticus, while those from which Hardwicke’s Ms. figures 
(reproduced by Gray in 1873) were drawn, though said to be from 
‘*Futtegurh’, may have been either introduced or ascribed to an 
incorrect locality. All definite records of specimens now in exis- 
tence refer to places in the Indian Peninsular Area south of the 
Indo-Gangetic Plain. 
Trionyx hurum, Gray. 
1912. Tvrionyx hurum, Annandale, Rec Ind. Mus., VII, pp 160, 
180, pl. v, fig. 3. 
Mr. F M. Howlett. Imperial Pathological Entomologist, has 
recently sent me a young specimen taken in the Little Gundak 
River near Pusa in Bihar Its colouration is normal agreeing 
closely with that of a young turtle from Dacca in Eastern Ben- 
gal. It is thus clear that the normal T hurum has made its way 
in the Gangetic system far above the delta. 
Family TES TUDINIDAE. 
Testudo travancorica, Boulenger. 
1906. Testudo ivavancorica, Boulenger, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. 
Soc., XVII, p. 560, 2 pls 
Mr. F H. Gravely recently obtained further specimens in the 
forests on the western slopes of the Western Ghats in Cochin, 
while Mr. F. Hannyngton, I.CS., has presented to the Indian 
Museum one from Coorg on the eastern side of the Ghats. The 
known range of the species may, therefore, now be stated thus :— 
Travancore and Cochin on the western sloves of the Western 
Ghats and Coorg on the eastern slopes. It is probable that the tor- 
toise also occurs on the western side of the hills in the western 
districts of the Madras Presidency, and also in parts of Travancore 
and the adjacent districts situated on the eastern side, but no 
records as yet exist. The common land-tortoise over the greater 
part of the Presidency is certainly T. elegans, which as Mr. 
Sundara Raj informs me, occurs in the Eastern Ghats in the 
Kurnool district. 
Geoemyda trijuga (Schweigg.) 
1913. Geoemyda trijuga, Annandale, Rec. Ind. Mus., IX, p. 67. 
It is probable that the range of the typical form of this 
species is confined to ‘he east-central part of the Madras Presidency, 
but specimens from Mysore, the northern part of the Presidency 
and other parts of the I eninsular Area must be examined before 
