IQI5.| N. ANNANDALE: Notes on Indian Chelonia. 193 
different from the colour of that of specimens of the typical form 
of the species that have been even Jonger in alcohol. 
The iris is pale chestnut. There are a number of small tuber- 
cles on the side of the head between the eye and the tympanum. 
I can detect no constant peculiarity in the skull or in the 
shell, except that the dorsal keels appear to be blunter than in 
specimens of the same size from Madras. Possibly this is corre- 
lated with the fact that the race is a very small one and that 
shells of small size are therefore more worn and belong to older 
individuals than their dimensions would suggest. The concentric 
rings on the dorsal shields are, however, very distinct. 
Carapace. 
Reg. No. Reg. No. 
177 task) |Z 7 ESS) 
Total length with the callipers . 155 mm. 162 mm. 
Total length with the tape el Osere EGS: vee 
Total breadth with the callipers LOO % sah ae Saray 
otal breadth withthe tape « “<5 125./—,, I44 ;; 
Depth of the shell .. igre * Oa Ss SVeeey 
Plastron. 
Total length with the callipers. TE aes 145-3, 
Length of the bridge Beieiats aye OG" S5; 
Skull, 
Total length e Meee: tear 
Zygomatic breadth .. BES 
Types. No. 17712 (skeleton) and No. 17715 (spirit), Ind. Mus. 
I have examined three living specimens which Dr. Henderson 
has been kind enough to send me. ‘They were collected by his 
" assistant Mr. Sundara Raj ina pond. One has been returned to 
the Madras Museum, one skeletonized and one preserved in alcohol. 
All are apparently adult females of approximately the same size; 
they are very uniform as regards their racial characters. 
Subsp. coronata ( Anderson ). 
1913. Geoemyda trijuga coronata, Annandale, op. cit., p. 68, pl. 
vi, figs. 3, 3. 
It is strange that there is no reference to this very distinct 
race in the “‘ Fauna”, but, to judge from the labels on specimens 
in the British Museum, it seems possible that it was regarded by 
Dr. Boulenger as the fully adult or possibly aged phase of the 
typical! Madras form, to which Anderson gave the name madras- 
patana. 
We have received from Dr. Henderson specimens of this race 
from Chalakudi in Cochin and from a locality about 25 miles N.E. 
of Calicut in the Malabar district of the Madras Presidency. 
