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12. On THE Genus MANovuRIA AND ITS AFFINITIES. 
By Dr. Jonn Epwarp Gray, F.R.S., V.P.Z.S., erc. 
(Reptilia, Pl. XXXI.) 
In the ‘ Proceedings’ of this Society for 1852, p. 133, I described, 
and in the quarto Catalogue of the ‘Shield Reptiles in the Collec- 
tion of the British Museum’ I described at greater length and figured, 
the imperfect shield of a Tortoise which had long been in the posses- 
sion of the Society, under the name of Manouria fusca. 
Dr. Cantor, in his ‘Catalogue of the Reptiles of the Malayan 
Peninsula,’ describes a specimen of the same Tortoise under the name 
of Geoemyda spinosa, considering it as the adult of that curious and 
interesting species, and most unjustifiably copies my description of 
the animal of that Tortoise as that of the animal belonging to the 
shell which he was describing. 
Dr. Cantor sent the specimen here referred to, to the East India 
Company, and it has passed from them into the Collection of the 
British Museum, so that there can be no doubt about the identity 
of the two animals. 
Mr. Le Conte, in the ‘ Proceedings of the Academy of Natural 
Sciences of Philadelphia’ for October 1859, vol. vii. p. 187, describes 
a Tortoise from Java under the name of Teleopus luxatus, which 
evidently belongs to the same genus, and is probably the same spe- 
cies which I had previously described and figured under the name 
of Manouria fusca. 
When I first described the genus from a shell in a very imperfect 
condition, I referred it to the family Hmydide, on account of its 
«depressed form and the divided caudal plate.” 
Dr. Cantor, in the Catalogue above quoted, not only refers it to 
that family, but considers it a species of the genus Geoemyda, and 
describes the animal as having the feet of that genus, which are 
provided with strong, separate toes. . 
Mr. Le Conte seems to have had a perfect animal, for he de- 
scribes the feet thus:—‘Toes and claws 5:5; fore-claw long and 
rather sharp: hind-feet clavate ; claws nearly globular, the inner 
one wide and flat, the edge sharp-edged:” yet he places the genus 
Teleopus, in his arrangement published in the same volume of the 
‘ Philadelphia Proceedings,’ between Platysternon and Lutremys with 
the true Emydes, observing that “it possesses a strong mixture of 
the characters of this family with those of the next.” 
The British Museum has just acquired from Mr. Gould a very 
fine and perfect specimen of the genus, which he received with a 
series of skins of Kangaroos and other Australian mammalia and 
reptiles from Australia, thus enabling me to lay before the Society a 
- completion of the character of the genus before established from the 
examination of an imperfect specimen of the shell alone, to correct 
the position of the genus in the order, and to show the geographical 
arrangement of the single species on which it is founded. 
The genus Manourta is a typical Land Tortoise (Testudinide), 
which verifies the fact stated by Dr. Cantor, that it is “found on 
