Qg TESTUDINID^. 



broad, narrower than the costals. Plastron large, angulated later- 

 ally, truncate anteriorly, notched posteriorly; the width of the 

 bridge exceeds the length of the hind lobe; the longest median 

 Buture is that between the abdominals ; suture between the gulars 

 as long as or shorter than that between the humerals ; axillary and 

 inguinal large. Head moderate; snout short, obtuse; upper jaw 

 notched mesially, denticulated ; lower jaw strongly serrated, flat 

 infcriorly, its width at the symphysis equalling the diameter of the 

 orbit. .Scales on limbs smaU ; 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 markings ; a yellow streak 

 running above the canthus rostralis, supraciliary edge, and temple, 

 and another from behind the eye to above the ear. 



Length of shell : $ , 22 centim. ; J , 15. 



Burma. 



a-b. Yg., spir. Pegu. W. Theobald, E.-^q. [C.]. 



c, d, e, f, (/. d $ & yg., shells. Pegu. W. Theobald, Esq. [C.]. 



h. 2 , shell. Mergui. Prof. Oldham [P.]. 

 i,k. cS 2> skel. Burma. 



2. Morenia petersii. 



Emys ocellata {non D. ^- B.), Bhjth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxvii. 



p. 281 (1858). 

 Batagur ocellata, BIyth, Journ. As. Soc. Benq. xxxii. p. 82 (1863) j 



Theoh. Cut. Rept. As. Soc. Mus. p. 13 (1868). 

 Morenia ocellata, Theoh. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 18 (1876). 

 Batagur (Morenia) petersi, Anders. Zool. Res. Yunnan, p. 761, pi. lix. 



(1879). 



Yery closely allied to the preceding. Snout much more pointed 

 and relatively longer *. Suture between the pectorals not shorter 

 than that between the abdominals. Carapace black, each vertebral 

 with a narrow yellowish mesial line; the lour last vertebrals with a 

 yellowish linear horseshoe mark with the ends directed forwards ; 

 each costal with an ocellus placed rather low and formed b}' a 

 narrow yellowish line, above which are some irregular looped lines 

 of similar colour ; the nuchal and each marginal with a vertical 

 narrow 3X'llowish mesial streak ; plastron yellow. Three yellow 

 streaks on each side of the head, the lower extending from below 

 the nostril to the angle of the mouth. 



Length of shell : c? , 125 millim. ; $ , 200. 



Bengal. 



* The character dcriverl from (he connections of the axillary sliiclrl, indicated 

 by Anderson, is not constant in our series of J/, ocellata, and therefore cannot 

 serve to distinguish the two species. 



