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yellow rays radiate; these rays usually narrow and very numerous ; 
plastron likewise with black and yellow radiating streaks. 
Length of shell 26 centim. 
India and Ceylon. 
a,b. 9 & yg., shells. Sind.  . Dr. Leith [P.]. 
Cr VES Spits Ganjam. F. Day, Esq. [ P.]. 
def. 6 9, stiid. India. 
g. Her., spir. India. 
h. Yg., shell. India. Dr. Falconer [P. j. 
a. 9, stffd. Ceylon. Dr. J. HE. Gray [P.]. 
k. Q, stffd. Ceylon. 
lO stir. Muscat, Arabia (im- A. S.G. Jayakar, Esq. [P. ]. 
ported ?). 
? 
m,n, 0, p,q. P9&Ye., 
shells. 
10. Testudo platynota. 
Testudo platynota, Blyth, Journ, As, Soc. Beng. xxxii. p. 83 (1863) ; 
Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 2 (1876); Anders. Zool. Res. Yun- 
nan, p. 712 (1879). 
Peltastes platynotus, Gray, Suppl. Cat. Sh. Rept. i. p. 8 (1870), and 
Proc. Zool. Soc, 1870, p. 655, pl. xxxiil. 
Very closely allied to the preceding, but carapace more regularly 
oval, posterior border not or but very sightly expanded, and more 
feebly serrated ; vertebral shields flat. Yellow rays on the discal 
shields wider and fewer, usually three to the right and three to the 
left of each shield ; plastron yellow, with some large black blotches 
but without radiating streaks. According to Anderson, the scales 
on the fore limb are fewer and all rounded, the sharp scales on the 
heel are absent, and the conical scales on the posterior portion of 
the thigh are very much smaller and not at all prominent. 
Upper Burma and Northern Pegu. 
a,b,c. Ad. & yg., shells. Burma. W. Theobald, Esq. [C.]. 
11. Testudo geometrica. 
Testudo geometrica, Linn. S. N. i. p. 353 (1766); Schoepff, Test. 
p- 49, pl. x. 1792) ; Daud. Rept. 11. p. 260, pl. xxv. fig. 1 (1802) ; 
Bell, Mon. Test. pl. — (1885); Dum. & Bibr. ii. p. 57 (1835) ; 
Gray, Cat. Tort. p. 8 (1844), and Sh. Rept. i. p.8 (1855); Strauch, 
Chelon. Stud. p. TA (1862) ;. Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 541. 
luteola, Daud. lc. p. 277, pl. xxv. fig. 3. 
Chersine geometrica, Merr. Tent. p. 32 (1820). 
Peltastes geographicus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 173. 
geometricus, Gray, Suppl. Cat. Sh. Rept.i. p. 9 (1870). 
Shell very convex, the dorsal shields sometimes swollen and sub- 
conical ; margin not forming an angle with the costal shields, not or 
but feebly reverted or serrated ; shields very strongly striated con- 
centrically ; 11 marginals on each side, rarely 12; nuchal elongate, 
