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3. Trionyx leithii, Gray. 
T. leithit, Gray, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 40, fig. 3. T. gangeticus, id., 
ibid., pl. vii. 
Boulenger, Fauna, p. 12. Siebenrock, p. 597. 
DISTRIBUTION.— The limits of distribution of this form are 
very imperfectly known. It was described from Poona in the 
Western Ghats and was taken by the late Colonel Beddome in the 
Nelambar River, which is also in the Malabar zone. Mr. Boulen- 
Fic. 1.—Branchial Skeleton of Tvionyx gangeticus, x 2. 
A, of adult; B, of young. 
ger states that the species occurs in the Kistna River and that 
the figure of it reproduced by Gray in 1873 as representing T. 
gangeticus was a copy of a drawing of specimens from Fatteghar.! 
The late Dr. W. T. Blanford obtained specimens in the Upper 
Mahanaddi system and in the lower reaches of the Godavari. 
SPECIMENS :— 
16503 (spirit): juv. ? > 
] There are two places of this name in N.-W. India, one on the R. Ganges, 
the other in Patiala State and within the limits of the Indus system. Z 
