20 TESTUDINID.^:. 



no transverse hinge ; axillary and inguinal shields large ; the 

 suture between the pectoral shield and the marginals longer than 

 that between the abdominal and the marginals ; the suture between 

 the pectoral shields as long as or a little shorter than that between 

 the abdominals, the suture between the humerals shorter than that 

 between the gulars, and that between the anals shorter than 

 that between the femorals. Upper jaw hooked, the hook very 

 strongly bicuspid in the adult, and with a very distinct den- 

 ticulation along the whole border. Digits extensively webbed ; 

 claws long, curved, sharp. Front part of the arm with broad 



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Fig. Q.—Cydemys annand(dii. (From Fascic. Malay., Zool.) 



baud-like shields. Carapace dark brown, spotted with black in 

 the young, black in the adult; plastron of young yellowish, with 

 symmetrical dark brown markings, of adult black, with yellow 

 markings. Head and neck, in the young, dark brown, with a 

 yellowish streak on each side from the upper surface of the snout 

 to the neck, passing above the eye and the tympanum, parallel 

 with another on the temple and neck ; in the adult, blackish, 

 vermiciilate with yellowish, but without light streaks. 



Leugth of shell 380 miUim. 



The types of this species, obtained at Kampong Jalor, Siamese 

 Malay States, were brought to Messrs. Annandale and Eobinson 

 by natives, who frequently keep this tortoise in captivity. The 

 adults appear to be largely terrestrial in habits, but it is probable 

 that the young are more aquatic. 



16. Cyclemys dhor. 



Emijs dhor, Gray, Syn. Kept. p. 20 (1831). 



Cyclemys oldhmni, Gray, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 178 ; Giinth. Rept. Brit. 



Ind. p. 15, pi. V, %. B(1864). 

 Cyclemys dhor, Bouleiig. Cat. Chelou, p. 131 (1889) ; id. Faun. Brit. 



Ind., Rept. p, 30 (1890). 



Carapace depressed, with a single obtuse keel ; posterior margin 



