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enlarged, band-like scales. Carapace dark brown or black; plastron 
yellowish, with a large blackish spot occupying the greater part of 
each shield, or entirely black. Soft parts dark brown; a yellow 
band across the prefrontal region, extending on each side, through 
the eye, to above the ear; another from below each eye, passing 
below the nostrils. 
Length of shell 45 centim.(@). Males much smaller. 
Northern India (Ganges and Indus systems). Fossil in the 
Pliocene Siwaliks. 
a. 9, stffd. Bengal. M. Picquot [C.]. 
b- Datiid: Bengal. R. McClelland, Esq. [C.]. 
e. Ye., stffd. Bengal. 
d. 9, skel. Bengal. 
e. 9, shell. Bengal. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [C. ]. 
Sg: 2, shells. Bengal. W. Theobald, Esq. | E. |]. 
h. Skull. Bengal. Prof. Oldham [P. ]. 
(Type of Kachuga oldhami.) 
z. 9, shell. Indus. Dr. Leith [P.}. 
(Type of Hardella indi.) 
5. MORENTA. 
Kmys, part., Dum. § Brbr. ii. p. 232 (1885); Gray, Cat. Tort. 
p. 14 (1844); Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 21 (1864). 
Batagur, part., Gray, Cat. Sh. Rept. i. p. 85 (1855) ; Anders. Zool. 
Res. Yunnan, p. 729 (1879). 
Kachuga, part., Gray, l.c., and Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 200. 
Clemmys, part., Strauch, Chelon. Stud. p. 28 (1862). 
Morenia, Gray, Suppl. Cat. Sh. Rept. 1. p. 62 (1870); Anders. 1. ¢. 
p. 759. 
Neural plates hexagonal, short-sided in front. Plastron exten- 
sively united to the carapace by suture, with short axillary and 
inguinal buttresses, just reaching the first and fifth costal plates ; 
entoplastron anterior to the humero-pectoral suture. Skull with a 
bony temporal arch ; alveolar surfaces very broad, of upper jaw 
with a strong tuberculate median ridge; edge of jaws strongly 
toothed ; choanze behind the level of the eyes. Upper surface of 
snout and crown covered with a single shield, behind which the skin 
is corrugated. Digits extensively webbed. ‘Tail short, not longer 
in the young than in the adult. 
Northern India and Burma. 
1. Morenia ocellata. 
Emys ocellata, Dum. § Bibr. ii. p. 829, pl. xv. fig. 1 (1885); Gray, 
Cat. Tort. p. 18 (1844) ; Blyth, Journ, As. Soc. Beng. xxii. p. 645 
(1853) ; Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 22 (1864). 
Batagur ocellata, Gray, Cat. Sh. Rept. i. p. 86 (1855), and Proc. 
Zool. Soe, 1856, p. 182, pl. x. 
Clemmys ocellata, Strauch, Chelon. Stud. p. 33 (1862). 
Emys berdmorei, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc, Beng. xxvii. p. 281 (1858). 
