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lines between shallow sculptures ; towards the lower borders. 
on the sides these take an elongated form sometimes parallel 
to the sutures. Head large, with five to seven shields, the 
anterior and median pairs coalesced, lower jaw strong. An- 
terior margin of forelegs covered with from seven to ten 
narrow, band-like, unequal shields. ‘Tail short, with from 
fourteen to sixteen narrow curved shields on the upper surface” 
—Boulenger. (insculpta, engraved.) 
Length of carapace 18 inches. 
Fly River. 
Tvpe in the Australian Museum, Sydney. 
Family F. TRIONYCHID. 
THE EnerpHant TorTO!sEsS. 
Shell without epidermal shields. Jaws concealed under 
fleshy lips; snout ending in a proboscis. Head and neck 
completely retractile. Ear hidden. Only the three inner 
digits clawed.—Boulenger. (7px, three ; dvv€, a claw.) 
Rivers of Africa, Asia, New Guinea, and North America. 
Genus VIII. PELOCHELYS. 
Pelochelys, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1864, p. 89 (cantoriz) ; 
Boulenger, Catal. Chelon., p. 262, 1889. 
Jaws weak. Orbit nearer the nasal than the temporal 
fossa; bony choanz between the orbits; postorbital arch 
as wide as the diameter of the orbit.  (7mAds, clay, mud; 
xeAvs, a tortoise.) 
Eastern India to New Guinea. 
13. PELOCHELYS CANTORII. 
Chitra indica, part., Gray, Catal, Tort., p. 49, 1844 ; Giinther, Pept. 
Brit. Ind., p. 59, pl. vi. 1896; fig, C, L864. 
Gymnopus indicus, Cantor, Catal, Malay, Rept’, p. 10, 1847. 
Pelochelys cantorii, Gray, Proc. Zodl, Soc. 1864, p. 90, Malacea ; 
Lydekker, Roy. Nat. Hist., v. p. 100, fig., 1896. 
Pelochelys cantoris. Boulenger, Catal. Chelon., p. 263, 1889; Waite, 
Rec. Austr. Mus. v. 1903, p. 50. 
CANTOR’S SOFT-SHELL TORTOISE. 
Costal plates in eight pairs, the last well developed and 
forming a median suture; a single neural between the first 
pair of costals; plates coarsely pitted and vermiculate. 
Head moderate ; snout short and broad ; proboscis very short; 
interorbital space broader than the greatest diameter of the 
