68 TESTUDINID 2. 
broad, narrower than the costals. Plastron large, angulated later- 
ally, truncate anteriorly, notched posteriorly ; the width of the 
bridge exceeds the length of the hind lobe; the longest median 
suture is that between the abdominals; suture between the gulars 
as long as or shorter than that between the humerals; axillary and 
inguinal large. Head moderate; snout short, obtuse ; upper jaw 
notched mesially, denticulated; lower jaw strongly serrated, flat 
inferiorly, its width at the symphysis equalling the diameter of the 
orbit. Scales on limbs small; digits broadly webbed. ‘Tail very 
short. Carapace brown, each shield of the disk with a large central 
blackish ocellus encircled with yellowish ; lower surface uniform 
yellow. Head olive, with yellow markings; a yellow streak 
running above the canthus rostralis, supraciliary edge, and temple, 
and another from behind the eye to above the ear. 
Length of shell: 9, 22 centim.; 3, 15. 
Burma. 
ab. Ye., spir. Pegu. W. Theobald, Esq. [C.]. 
c,4ef,9.3 2 & yg. shells. Pegu. W. Theobald, Esq. [C.]. 
h. 9, shell. Mergul. Prof. Oldham [ P. }. 
i,k. 3 9, skel. Burma. 
2. Morenia petersii. 
Emys ocellata (non D. & B.), Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxvii. 
p- 281 (1858). 
Batagur ocellata, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxxii. p. 82 (1868) ; 
Theob. Cat. Rept. As. Soc. Mus, p. 13 (1868). 
Morenia ocellata, Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 18 (1876). 
Batagur (Morenia) petersi, Anders. Zool. Res. Yunnan, p. 761, pl. lix. 
(1879). 
Very closely allied to the preceding. Snout much more pointed 
and relatively longer *. Suture between the pectorals not shorter 
than that between the abdominals. Carapace black, each vertebral 
with a narrow yellowish mesial line; the four last vertebrals with a 
yellowish linear horseshoe mark with the ends directed forwards ; 
each costal with an ocellus placed rather low and formed by a 
narrow yellowish line, above which are some irregular looped lines 
of similar colour; the nuchal and each marginal with a vertical 
narrow yellowish mesial streak; plastron yellow. Three yellow 
streaks on each side of the head, the lower extending from below 
the nostril to the angle of the mouth. 
Length of shell: ¢, 125 millim.; 9, 200. 
Bengal. 
* The character derived from the connections of the axillary shield, indicated 
by Anderson, is not constant in our series of J. oce//ata, and therefore cannot 
serve to distinguish the two species. 
