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bb. Width of bridge one third or more than one third of the 
length of the plastron; nuchal shield present or 
absent “9 PS " ae 3. subglobosa, 
aa. Upper surface of neck with conical erect tubercles. 
d. Nuchal shield present ; intergular shield thrice as long 
as wide ae ars es fe 4. novee-quinee. 
8. EMYDURA MACQUARII. 
Hydraspis macquarii, Gray, Synops. Rept., p. 40, 1831, Macquarie 
River. 
Chelymys victoria, part:, Gray, Proc. Zodl. Soc., 1872, p. 506, pl. xxvii, 
Victoria River. 
OChelymys macquaria, McCoy, Prodr. Zoél. Vict., dec. 9, pls. Ixxxii and 
Ixxxiii, 1884. 
Emydura macquarie, Boulenger, Catal. Chelon., p. 230, 1889. 
THe Macquarie Mup TorrTo!se. 
Carapace more or less depressed, greatly expanded but 
not or only feebly serrated posteriorly, ornamented with 
longitudinal or sinuous rugosities or vermiform impressions, 
and bearing a more or less distinct linear vertebral groove. 
Intergular shield not twice as long as wide, larger than the 
gulars. A pair of small mental barbels. Carapace olive or 
olive-brown ; plastron pale olive or yellowish green; soft 
parts dark brown or olive ; a yellow band from the angle of 
the mouth along the side of the neck, passing across the lower 
border of the ear. (Named for Colonel Lachlan Macquarie, 
seventh Governor of New South Wales). 
Length of carapace to 12 inches. 
South-eastern Australia ; north-western Australia (Vic- 
toria River) ; southern New Guinea (Fly River). 
Type of Chelymys victorie in the South Kensington 
Museum. 
Dr. J. E. Gray, in his synonymy of this tortoise (Proc. 
Zo6l. Soc., 1872, p. 506), quotes as its earliest name “ Hmys 
macquaria, Cuvier, Régne Anim., . p. 11”; in this he is 
followed by McCoy. Boulenger, however, omits all mention 
of Cuvier’s name, and I have, therefore, employed Gray’s 
original orthography (less the unnecessary additional “r” 
as written by himself. Hmys macquaria is probably a nomen 
nudum, and as such must be ignored. 
