122 TESTUDINID &. 
Plastron large; the width of the bridge equals or a little exceeds 
the length of the posterior lobe, which is broadly notched ; front 
lobe truncate. Proportions of the plastral shields as in the prece- 
ding species; axillary and inguinal shields present. Upper jaw 
not hooked, notched mesially ; the width of the mandible at the 
symphysis is less than the diameter of the orbit. Digits distinctly 
webbed. ‘Tail shorter than the head. Shell brown, with a yellow 
band on each side of the plastron; keels sometimes yellowish. 
Head brown, in the young reticulated with yellowish (in spirit), 
and with a yellowish line from the eye to above the tympanum. 
Length of shell 22 centim. 
India. 
a,b. 2 & her.,shells. | Ramandroog, near Bel- Lord Dormer [P.]}. 
lary, 3000 feet. 
¢,. We, shell. Poonah. Dr. Leith [P.]. 
d. Yg., spir. Malabar. Col. Beddome [C.]. 
e. Her., stffd. India. Dr. J. E. Gray ([P.]- 
Je Yig- spin. India. Lord A. Russell [P. ]. 
g. Ad., skull. India. Prof, Oldham [ P. }. 
Var. thermalis. 
Emys thermalis, Lesson, Cent. Zool. p. 86, pl. xxix. (1880). 
Emys trijuga, Kelaart, Prodr. Faun. Zeyl. p. 177 (1852); Giinth. 
Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 29, pl. ii. fig. C (1864). 
Geoclemmys seba, Gray, Cat. Sh. Rept. i. p. 18. 
Clemmys thermalis, Strauch, Chelon. Stud. p.82, and Verth. Schildkr. 
. 66. 
Mcjoneekelss sebe, Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 12. 
Enys trijuga, var. sebze, Anders. 1. c. 
Shell dark brown in the young, with a broad yellow border to 
the plastron ; keels often yellowish ; shell of adult deep black, with 
a narrow yellow border to the plastron. Soft parts blackish; head 
of young and halfgrown with irregular bright-orange spots, which 
disappear in the adult. 
Length of shell 21 centim. 
Ceylon. 
a,b. 39, stffd. Ceylon. Zoological Society. 
cio. Spir: Ceylon. Zoological Society. 
d. Q, shell. Ceylon. Dr. Kelaart. 
e. 2, shell. Ceylon. 
f-g. Ye.) spir. Ceylon. B. H. Barnes, Esq. [ P.]. 
h. Yg., spir. Ceylon. Col. Beddome[C.].~ 
te leat. Elers & Ceylon. 
yg., Spir. 
m. Ye, spir. Trincomalee. 
n. Her., spir. Diego Garcia, Chandos G.C. Bourne, Esq. [C.]. 
Group (imported ?). 
o, p. 9 and her., —-? 
shells, 
