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fig. 2 (1835); Gray, Cat. Tort. p. 30 (1844); Giebel, Zeitschr. f. 
ges. Naturw. xxvii. p. 11 (1866). 
Cuora amboinensis, Gray, Cat. Sh. Rept. i. p. 41 (1855) ; Giinth. Rept. 
Brit. Ind. p. 12, pl. iv. figs. A, B (1864); Gray, Suppl. Cat. Sh. 
Rept. i. p. 21 (1870), and Append. p. 10 (1872); Theob. Cat. Rept. 
brit. Ind, p. 7 (1876). 
Carapace depressed and tricarinate in the young, usually very 
convex and without or with a single keel in adult females; verte- 
bral shields as long as broad or a little longer than broad in the 
adult, broader in the young, much narrower than the costals. 
Plastron as large as the opening of the shell in the adult, without 
distinct bridge; no anal notch; the line of junction between the 
hyoplastron and the carapace shorter than that between the hypo- 
plastron and the carapace; pectoral shields as long as or shorter 
than the abdominals, as long as or slightly longer than the humerals ; 
axillary and inguinal small or absent. Head rather small; upper 
jaw scarcely hooked, without any emargination. Front part of 
arm with large transverse scales. Digits moderately webbed, with 
sharp claws. Carapace brown or blackish; plastron yellow with 
large black spots, or dark brown with the suture between the shields 
yellow ; in the very young the black spots of the plastron are con- 
fluent into a broad longitudinal zone, the borders of the plastron 
being yellowish ; head and neck brown above, yellow inferiorly ; a 
yellow band borders the head and neck superiorly, meeting its 
fellow above the nostrils; a second yellow band passes through the 
eye and is separated from the upper jaw by a dark brown band: 
ear yellow. 
Length of shell 20 centim. 
Burma, Siam, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago eastwards to 
the Moluccas. 
a. 9, stffd. Siam. 
b. 9, stfid. Malacca. Capt. Ince [ P.]. 
ce. Her., stffd. Singapore. 
d,e,f,g. 2, hgr., & yg., Borneo. Dr. Bleeker. 
spir. 
h. Yg., spir. Borneo, A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 
t,k. Hgr. & yg., spir. Philippines. H. Cuming, Esq. [C.]. 
l-m. Hegr., spir. Laguna del Bey. Dr. A. B. Meyer [C.]. 
n. ete specs., 2, her, Dinagat Id. A. Everett, Esq. [C. ]. 
& yg., spir. 
o. Yg., spir. N. Celebes. Dr. A. B. Meyer [C.]. 
p. 3, skel. Manado. 
q. 3, stfid. Gilolo. 
ee Spies Amboyna. Leyden Museum. 
s. 9, skel. Amboyna. Leyden Museum. 
t. 3, stfid. ? T. Bell, Esq. [P.]. 
u. Yg., shell. —? J. E. Gray, Esq. [P.]. 
v. Her., stftd. -——P 
w, v. 3B, skels. —? 
y. &, shell, —? 
