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branes. Not haying carefully exammed either of these, I am unable 

 to offer any positiye opinion respecting their affinity wi h the senera 

 above descnbed. If appears, howeverrprobable that other ohafacters 

 would be d,scovered common to HyonycterU and Murina Ta Toli 

 examination were mstituted. 



2. NOTICE OF SOME INDIAN ToRTOISES (iNCLUDING THE DE- 

 mZ?.^''"' "^ v ^^^ ^^^"^^ PKESENTED TO THE BrITISH 



(Reptilia, PI. IX. X.) 



InSn rTl >*"''"«*^°S ^P^"™^'^ «f the verj curious senes of 

 Indian Tortoises presented to the British xMuseum by Professor 



re ei\?r 'S'l""" '^'T''' «^^ «P-^- -hich^o strong y 

 co ours h«t^. \^'"'T1^'*'^^^ '^^"^'^^«' i" «i^«^ fo™ and 



^S'^^a^t^^ss.^ z^z ii: -r B^r 

 bXTiroSr;;;iis^^^^^^^ ^-" ^^^ ^™-^- ^^^ 



First It belongs to the Old World divisions of the genus or true 

 genns Testudo characterized by the lašt vertebral pTarLeing as 

 wide on y as the caudal, and the hinder half of each of the Snder 

 marginai platės instead of being of the width of the cial ani the 

 hinder marginai platės, as is the case with the American "GoTkers' 

 mcludmg the species Testudo tabulata and Testudo gopher' 



Secondly. It has a large, elongated, well-marked nuchal plate 

 which is never found in Testudo tabulata. ^ ' 



Thirdly. The hinder notch is more angular and acute 



The specimen sent from India has the deeply concaye sternum 



specimens of T tabulata. It is sent under the name of ' Testudo 

 e/o«,a «/ which I ^illinglyadopt; as it may have been noticed 



1. Testudo elongata. (PI. IX.) 



bin^^M^'' J'^'T-^'iT^'^n' 'i^P'-essed, truncated in front, rounded be- 

 S f '. '^'''•^1 yf "ow-edged. Sternum rather narrow, trun- 

 cated m front, angularly notched behind, yellow, largely black/varied 

 Nuchal plate elongate. The hinder vertebral plate as wide Is the 

 caudal and the hinder half of the hinder marginai platės. 

 JJao. India, "Mergui." 



iSTo^e.— Since the above was writteii, I have received a Part of 

 the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for 1856, and I find 



