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Genus MORENIA, 

 Gray, Suppl. Cat. Sh. Eept. i, p. 62, 1870. 



Neural plates hexagonal, anterior lateral margins shortest. Plas- 

 tron extensively united to the carapace by suture, with short axil- 

 lary and inguinal buttresses, just reaching the first and fifth costal 

 plates ; entoplastron anterior to the humero-pectoral suture. Skull 

 with a bony temporal arch ; alveolar surfaces very broad, that of 

 upper jaw with a strong tuberculate median ridge ; edge of jaws 

 strongly toothed ; choanse behind the level of the eyes. Upper 

 surface of snout and crown covered with a single shield, behind 

 which the skin is corrugated. Digits extensively webbed. Tail 

 short. 



Distribution. Northern India and Burma. Aquatic ; herbivorous. 



Synopsis of the Species. 



Suture between abdominal shields longer than that 



between pectorals .......................... M. ocellata, p. 3". 



Suture between abdominal shields not longer than 



that between pectorals ...................... M. petersii, p. 36. 



32. Morenia ocellata. 



Emys ocellata, Dum. Sf Bibr. Erp. Gen. ii, p. 329, pi. xv, fig. 1 ; 



Giitith. Eept. B. 1. p. 22. 



Emys berdmorei, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxvii, 1858, p. 281. 

 Morenia berdmorei, 'Gray, Suppl. Cat. Sh. Reft, i, p. 62 ; Theob. Cat. 



p. 17. 

 Batagur (Morenia) ocellata, Anders. An. Zool. Res. Yunnan, p. 755, 



pis. Ix & Ixi. 

 Morenia ocellata, Bouleng. Cat. Chel. $c. p. 66. 



Carapace moderately depressed, with a strong, interrupted, 

 tubercular keel in the young, which becomes fainter in the adult ; 

 margin not serrated ; nuchal narrow ; first vertebral not or but 

 little broader anteriorly than posteriorly, lateral borders usually 

 sinuous ; second, third, and fourth vertebrals broader than long 

 or as long as broad, narrower than the costals. Plastron large, 

 angulate laterally, truncate anteriorly, notched posteriorly ; the 

 width of the bridge exceeds the length of the hind lobe ; the 

 longest median suture is that between the abdominals ; suture 

 bet\veen the gulars as long as that between the numerals or 

 shorter ; axillary and inguinal large. Head moderate ; snout 

 short, obtuse ; upper jaw notched mesially, denticulated ; lower 

 jaw strongly serrated, flat beneath, its width at the symphysis 

 equalling the diameter of the orbit. Scales on limbs small ; digits 

 broadly webbed. Tail very short. Carapace brown, each shield 

 of the disk with a large central blackish ocellus encircled with 

 yellowish ; lower surface uniform yellow. Head olive, with yellow 



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