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of the snout and the crown; one round the upper jaw and one on 
each side between the eye and the ear. Digits webbed to the claws. 
Tail extremely short. Shell dark brown or blackish, elegantly 
marked with yellow spots and radiating streaks. Soft parts dark 
brown or blackish, with round yellow spots, largest on the head 
and neck. 
Length of shell 22 centim. 
Bengal, Punjab, Upper Sind. Fossil in the Siwaliks of the Punjab. 
a. Yg., stffd. India. (Type.) 
b. Ad., shell & skull. Bengal. ' R. Lydekker, Esq. [ E.]. 
c-d. Yg., spir. p Zoological Society. 
en Nios tskel. —? 
f. Yg., shell & skull. —? 
2. Damonia subtrijuga. 
Emys trijuga (non Schweigg.), Schleg. Faun. Japon., Rept. p. 64 
(1853). 
subtrijuga, Schleg. § Mill. in Temminck, Verh. Naturk. 
Nederl. Ind. p. 30 (1844) ; Hubrecht, Notes Leyd, Mus. iii. p. 48 
(1881). 
Geoclemmys macrocephala, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859, p. 479, 
pl. xxi., and 1861, p. 189, 
Clemmys macrocephala, Strauch, Chelon. Stud. p. 82 (1862). 
Emys nuchalis, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxxii. p. 82 (1863). 
—— macrocephala (non Gray, 1844), Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 31 
(1864). 
Damonia macrocephala, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1869, p. 194, and 
Suppl. Cat. Sh. Rept. 1. p. 48 (1870). 
Bellia nuchalis, Gray, Suppl. p. 41. 
Damonia oblonga, Gray, Ann. § Mag. N. H. (4) viii. 1871, p. 367, 
and xi, 1875, p. 299. 
Carapace depressed, tricarinate, the lateral keels not extending to 
the fourth costal shields; posterior border not serrated; nuchal 
moderate, broadest behind; vertebrals 2 to 4 a little broader than 
long, much narrower than the costals. Plastron smaller than the 
open.ng of the shell, flat in both sexes, angulated laterally, truncate 
anteriorly, angularly notched posteriorly ; the width of the bridge 
nearly equals the length of the hind lobe; the abdominal shields 
form the longest median suture; the suture between the gulars as 
long as or shorter than that between the humerals ; axillary and 
inguinal present. Head very large; snout projecting; upper jaw 
emarginate mesially ; the width of the mandible at the symphysis 
exceeds the horizontal diameter of the orbit ; four large shields on 
the head—one round the upper jaw, another covering the snout and 
the crown, and one on each side between the eye and the ear. 
Digits webbed to the claws. Tail extremely short. Shell brown. 
above, with a more or less distinct black spot on each shield ; plas- 
tron yellow, each shield with a large black blotch. Soft parts dark 
brown ; a yellow streak from the end of the snout to the temple, 
following the canthus rostralis and the supraorbital edge ; another 
