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263-5 (spirit) Travancore Prince Rama Varma. 
254-0) 9, 1 Madras Madras Museum. 
1022 (skl.) \ 
16689 (spirit) : juv. Bangalore (3,000 ft.) Dv. N. Annandale. 
BOMBAY PRESIDENCY. 
1660 (skl.) : 1043 (skull) Cutch. Dr. Stoliczka. 
247-8 (spirit): 566 ,, Goa Purchased ;. Dr. J. 
Anderson. 
1774 (skull) Sind Dr. W. T. Blanford. 
Emyda granosa ceylonensis, Gray. 
280-2 (spirit) Ceylon Dy J. Anderson. 
1025-6 (skl.) Ke Dr. Kelaart. 
1043 (skull) Colombo Dy. J. Anderson. 
Emyda granosa scuéata, Peters. 
1705-7 (skL.) Burma Hon. A. Eden. 
783 (skull) e + Ds 
266-7, 269, 3885, ee Hon. A. Eden, Maj. 
(spirit) : juv. Sladen, Dr. W. 
Theobald, Dy. F. 
Stoliczka 
268 (spirit): juv. Moulmein, Lower Dr. W. T. Theobald. 
Burma. 
1708 (skl.) Bhamo, Upper Bur- Capt. Lowndens. 
ma 
OOM 55 Mandalay, ,, ,, Maj. Strover. 
Lydekker (Pal. Ind. 111 (ser. x), p. 197 (43), 1886) states that 
Emyda vittata, Peters, occurs as a fossil in the Siwalik deposits of 
the Punjab and suggests that the Indo-Gangetic form (granosa) 
had not been produced when these beds were formed. 
The shell he figures as that of the former, however, resembles 
the race ceylonensts (which he did not distinguish from vittata) in 
having the xyphoplastral callosities in contact for the whole of 
their length, agreeing in other respects well enough with vittata. 
It is not improbable that it actually represents a form from which 
both of the southern races have been evolved. The other fossil 
remains figured by the same author appear to have belonged to 
forms that were both less highly specialized and considerably 
larger than the modern ones. They show, however, that in Post- 
Tertiary times two types of plastral sculpturing had already 
become fixed. The North Indian and Burmese races may be 
descended from Emyda sivalensis or E. palaeindica, and there are 
indications that scutafa possibly represents the latter species. If 
it could be proved that the different races of the one surviving 
species were derived from comparatively recent fossil forms that 
were specifically distinct from one another, it would be permissible 
