14 TESTUDINID.E. 



weak or moderately broad postorbital and temporal arches ; 

 alveolar surface of upper jaw with one or two median ridges ; 

 clioanse between the eyes. Head with horny shields above. 

 Limbs club-shaped, covered with large scales or tubercles. Tail 

 short. 



Eepresented in every part of the world except Australasia. 



Habits terrestrial and herbivorous. 



All the Malayan species are inhabitants of dry hill jungle, but 

 are by no means abundant. 



Malay name, Baning (generic) or kura-lura. 



Si/noj)sis of the Sjiecies. 



Supnicaudal shield single, more or less incurved ; 



no enlarged tubercles on the thighs T. elonyata, p. 14. 



Two supracaudal shields, embracing a deep notch ; 

 antero-lateral border of second and third ver- 

 tebral shields not or but slightly shorter than 

 postero-lateral T. emys, p. 15. 



Two supracaudal shields, embracing a deep notch ; 



antero-lateral border of second and third ver- [p. 15. 



tebral shields much shorter than postero-lateral. 2\ latinuchalis, 



9. Testudo elongata. 



Blyth, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, xxii, p. 639 (1853) ; Giinth. 

 Kept. Brit. Ind. p. 8 (1864) ; Bouleng. Cat. Chelon. p. 173 (1889) ; 

 id. Faun. Brit. Ind., Rept. p. 20 (1890) ; S. Flower, P. Z. S. 1899, 

 p. 616 ; Bouleng. Fascic. Malay., Zool. i, p. 147 (1903), 



Shell cousidei^ably depressed, more than twice as long as deep 

 in the adult, with flat vertebral region ; anterior and posterior 

 margins slightly reverted, strongly serrated in the young, feebly 

 in old specimens : shields concentrically striated, except in old 

 specimens : nuchal present (rarely absent), narrow and elongate ; 

 supracaudal undivided, more or less incurved ; second and third 

 vertebrals broader than long and nearly as broad as the costals. 

 Plastron large, truncate anteriorly, deeply notched posteriorly ; 

 suture bet\^'een the pectoral shields as long as or longer than that 

 between the humerals ; anal shields foruiing a very short suture, 

 or entirely separated by the anal notch ; axillary and inguinal 

 moderate. Head moderate ; a pair of large prpei'rontal shields, 

 usually followed by a nearly equally large frontal ; beak feebly 

 hooked, tricuspid ; alveolar ridge of upper jaw short and rather 

 feeble. Anterior side of fore limbs with moderate, unequal-sized, 

 imbricate scales ; no enlarged tubercles on the thighs. Tail ending 

 in a claw-like horny tubercle. Carapace and plastron pale yel- 

 lowish brown or greenish yellow, each shield with an irregular 

 black spot or blotch, which may occupy its gi'eater portion, 

 or may be much broken up or indistinct ; head and neck pale 

 green. 



Length of shell 270 millim. 



