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behind in the adult ; second vertebral shortest, broader than long, 

 with straight posterior border ; third vertebral considerably longer 

 than broad, pointed behind, and forming a very narrow suture 

 with the fourth, which tapers anteriorly and equals in length the 

 first and second together ; fifth vertebral not broader than fourth, 

 pointed posteriorly. Plastron large, feebly angulate laterally, 

 truncate anteriorly, angularly notched posteriorly ; the longest 

 median suture is that between the abdominals ; suture between the 

 gulars as long as or shorter than that between the numerals; 

 suture between gulars and humerals forming a right angle ; inguinal 

 and axillary large. Carapace olive-brown, usually with a lighter 

 streak along the keel ; plastral shields dark brown with a broad 

 yellow border. 



Length of shell 7 inches. 



Hob, Sylhet and Assam. 



41. Kachuga intermedia. 



Emys (Pangshura) tectum, var. intermedia, Blanf. J. A. S. . xxxix, 



1870, pt. 2, p. 339, pi. xiv, and xlviii, 1879, p. 110. 

 Kachuga intermedia, Bouleng. Cat. Chel. fyc. p. 58. 



Shell as in K. tectum, but second vertebral shield shortest and 

 broader than long. Carapace brown ; plastral shields black, with 

 yellow anterior and lateral margins. Head dull oh' ve, paler below ; 

 a ferruginous spot behind the eye, and three others, less well 

 marked, in a convex line on the occiput ; limbs uniform olive. 



Length of shell 4| inches. 



Hob. Hasdo river, Bilaspur, Central Provinces ; Godavari. 



This Tortoise is only known to me from Blanf ord's description. 



42. Kachuga tectum. 



Emys tecta, Gray, Syn. Kept. p. 23, pi. v ; id. III. Ind. Zool. i, 



pi. Ixxii. 



Emys tentoria, Gray, P. Z. S. 1834, p. 54. 

 Pangshura tecta, Gunth. Rept. B. 1. p. 33 ; Theob. Cat. p. 13. 

 Pangshura tentoria, Gunth. Rept. B. 1. p. 34, pi. iv, figs. C, C'; Theob. 



Cat. p. 14. 



Pangshura flaviventer, Gunth. Rept. B. I. p. 35 ; Theob. Cat. p. 15. 

 Kachuga tectum, Bouleng. Cat. Chel. $c. p. 58. 



Carapace elevated, tectiform, the keel ending in a nodosity on the 

 third vertebral shield ; posterior margin not or but very slightly 

 serrated ; nuchal shield small, square or trapezoidal ; first vertebral 

 very variable in shape, usually with straight lateral borders diverg- 

 ing forwards in the half-grown specimens, narrower in front and 

 with sinuous lateral borders in the adult ; second vertebral as long 

 as or a little longer than second, frequently obtusely pointed 

 behind ; third vertebral pointed behind, in contact with the point 

 of the very elongate fourth ; fifth vertebral broader than the 

 others. Plastron large, strongly angulated laterally in the young, 

 truncate anteriorly, angularly notched posteriorly ; proportions of 



