56 



TEBTUDINIDiE. 



Auderson, who makes a distinct species (B. iravadica) for the 

 specimens ( 2 and yg. J ) without bands. 



Length of shell 55 ccntim. 



Burma ; Borneo ? 



W. Thoohakl, Esq. 

 ^^'. Tkeubakl, Esq. 

 W. Theobald, Esq. 



[P.]. 



W. Theobald, Esq. 



K. iiUineata.) 

 W. Theobald, Esq. [C.]. 



Dr. Falconer [P.]. 



(Type of 

 (Type of 



3. Kachuga dhongoka. 



Eniys dhongoka, dray, III. Lid. Zool. ii. pi. Ix. (1834). 



^ duvaucelii, Bum. Si Bihr. ii. p. 335 (1835) ; Gray, Cat. Tort. 



p. 15 (1844). 

 Batagur dhongoka, Gray, Cat. SJi. Rept. i. p. 36, pl. xviii. (1855); 



Giinfh. Rept. Brit. Lid. p. 42 (1864) ; Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Lid. 



p. 22 (1876). 

 Clemmys dhongoka, part., Strauch, Chelon. Stud. p. 33 (1862). 

 Dhongoka hardwickii, part.. Gray, Suppl. Cat. Sh. Rept. i. p. 56 



(1870). 

 Pangshura leithii, Gray, I. c. p. GO. 



Batagur duvaucelii, Anders. Zool. Res. Yunnan, p. 738 (1879). 

 duraudi, Lydekker, Pal. Ind. (10) iii. p. 192, pl. xxiv. fig. 2 



(1885). 



Carapace much depressed, keeled in the young, the keel reduced 

 to a knob on each of the anterior vertebrals in the adult ; posterior 

 margin crenulated. Xuehal shield small, trapezoid, broadest behind : 

 first vertebral usually narrower in front than behind, M'ith sinuous 

 lateral borders ; second vertebral broader than long in the young, 

 longer than broad in the adult, posterior border pointed or more or 

 less produced, fitting into an emargination of the third vertebral, 

 which is shorter than either the second or the third. Plastron 

 angulated laterally in the young ; front lobe truncate, hind lobe 

 angularly notched, shorter than the width of the bridge ; the longest 

 median suture is between the abdominals ; suture between the 

 gulars as long or nearly as long as that between the humerals ; the 

 suture between gulars and humerals forms a right angle and that 

 between humerals and pectorals a straight transverse line ; inguinal 

 large, axillary smaller. Jaws and soft parts as in K. trivittata. 

 Brown above, yellowish inferiorly ; carapace with three more or less 

 distinct black longitudinal bands. 



Length of shell 65 centim. 



India. Fossil in the Pliocene Siwaliks of the Punjab. 



a, b. Ad., shells. Nepal. 

 c. Ad., skull. Nepal. 



B. H. Hodgson, Esq 



B. H. 



Hodgson, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 2sq. fp.J. 



