66 TESTTJDIKID^. 



enlarged, band-like scales. Carapace dark brown or black ; plastron 

 yellowish, with a large blackish spot occupying the greater part of 

 each shield, or entirely black. Soft parts dark brown ; a yellow 

 band across the pra-fronial region, extending on each side, through 

 the eye, to above the ear ; another from below each eye, passing 

 below the nostrils. 



Length of sliell 45 centim. ( $ ). Males much smaller, 

 Northern India (Ganges and Indus systems). Fossil in the 

 Pliocene Siwaliks. 



rt. SjStflPd. Bengal. M. Picquot [C.]. 



h. §,stffd. Bengal. R. McClelland, Esq. [C.]. 



c. Yg., stfl(l. Bengal. 



d. 2, skel. Bengal. 



e. 5 , shell. Bengal. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [C.]. 

 /, y. $, shells. Bengal. W. Theobald, Esq. [E.J. 

 h. Skull. Bengal. Prof. Oldham [P.J. 



(Type of KacluKja oldhami.) 

 e. $, shell. Indus. Dr. Leith [P.J. 



(Type of Hardella indi.) 



5. MORENIA. 



Emys, part., num. Si- Bihr. ii. p. 232 (1835); Gray, Cat. Tort. 



p' 14 (1844)5 Giinth. Rept. Brit. Lid. p. 21 (1864). 

 Batagur, part., Orai/, Cat. tSh. Bepf. i. p. 35 (18-j5j ; Ander-'^. Zool, 



Bus. Ywiiian, p. 7i'9 (1879). 

 Kachuga, part., Grat/, I. c, and Pi-oc. Zool. Sac. 1869, p. 200. 

 Clemmys, part., Strauch, Chelon. Stud. p. '2S (1862). 

 Morenia, Gray, Suppl. Cat. Sh. Bept. i. p. 62 (1870) ; Aiiders. I. c. 



p. 755. 



Neural plates hexagonal, short-sided in front. Plastron exten- 

 sively united to the carapace by suture, with short axillary 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, of upper jaw 

 with a strong tuberculate median ridge ; edge of jaws strongly 

 toothed ; choanal 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, not longer 

 in the young than in the adult. 



Northern India and Burma. 



1. Morenia ocellata. 



Emys ocellata, Bum. Sf Bihr. ii. p. 329, pi. xv. fig. 1 (1835) ; Gray, 

 Cat. Tort. p. 18 (1844) ; Bh/th, Joiirn. As. Sac. Beny. xxii. p. 645 

 (1853) ; Giinth. Bept. Brit.' Ind. p. 22 (1864). 



Batagur ocellata, Gray, Cat. Sh. Bept. i. p. 36 (1855), and Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1856, p. 182, pi. x. 



Clemmys ocellata, Strauch, Chelon. Stud. p. 33 (1862). 



Emys berdmorei, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxvii. p. 281 (1858). 



