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Front part of fore legs and the hinder part of the lower hind legg 

 covered with large, flat triangular scales. A group of large conical 

 turbercles on the hinder side of the thigh. Head and feet yellowish, 

 more or less marbled with brown. Shell black with yellow areolas, 

 yellow streaks radiate from the areolie. The streaks on the sternum 

 are broader than those of the upper parts. 



Length. — 12 to 14 inches. Oviposits in October and November, 

 laying 4 eggs, usually beneath shrubs or tufts of grass. 



Hah, — In Smd this species has been found in the vicinity of the 

 Hubb. It has also been found in Kutch and Central India. Dr. 

 Gunther gives other authenticated localities, as Madi-as, Coromandel, 

 the low jungles of the Carnatic, Pondicherry, Ceylon, and the hilly 

 tracts of Meywar, where Captain Hutton says they are found in the high 

 grassy jungles skirting the base of the hills. According to Blyth it 

 does not occur in Lower Bengal. Graiy gives the Himalaya on the 

 authority of Captain Boys. 



Testudo Leithi, Guntli. Pro. Zoo. Soc. 1869, p. 502, f. 1, 2, 3; 

 Theoh. Rep. Brit. Ind., p. 3. Peltastes Leithii, Gray, Sup. Cat. Sh. 

 Hep. Br. Mus., p. 11; Murr. ZooL, Sfc, Sind, p. 255. — The Sind 

 Tortoise. 



Shell broadly ovate, arched, the convexity of the upper shell stopping 

 at the caudal plate, which is almost flat and forms a convex curve 

 with the last vertebral. Posterior margin of the shell slightly serrated. 

 Plates smooth, but with concentric strife distinct. Abdominals as 

 long as the gulars, post-gulars and pectorals together. Nuchal plate 

 triangular, pointed in front. Colour yellow, each of the vertebral and 

 costal plates with a black margin in front and on the sides, but not 

 posteriorly. Marginal plates black -margined anteriorly. Sternum 

 truncated in front, with a shallow obtuse-angular incision behind ; it 

 is entirely yellow with a broad cuneiform longitudinal black band in 

 the middle of each abdominal plate with its apex behind. 



Length. — 4" 75 to 5 inches. 



Hah. — Sind. 



Testudo horsfieldi. Gray. 



The Afghan Tortoise, which is common throughout Beloochistan, in the 

 Bolan, Afghanistan, and Persia, will probably be found to occur in Sind. 



Family, EMYDID^. 



Fresh Water Tortoises. 



Shell convex, more or less depressed, shields horny, caudal shields 

 separate. Toes distinct, webbed. Feet for walking or swimming- 

 Sternum flat in both sexes. Claws 5 before and 4 behind. 



Pangshura, G^-ay. 



Thorax and sternum solid, bony, united into an immovable carapace. 

 Upper shell angularly elevated, compressed ; the fourth vertebral shield 



