<j J TESTUDINIDiE. 



of the snout and the crown ; one round the upper jaw and one on 

 each side between the eye and the ear. Digits webbed to the claws. 

 Tail extremely short. Shell dark brown or blackish, elegantly 

 marked witli yellow spots and radiating streaks. Soft parts dark 

 brown or blackish, with round yellow spots, largest on the head 

 and neck. 



Length of shell 22 ccntim. 



Bengal, Tunjab, Upper Siud. Fossil in the Siwaliks of the Punjab. 



a. Yg., stffd. 



b. Ad., siicU & skull. 

 c-d. Yg., spir. 

 e. Yg., skel. 

 /. Yg., shell & skull. 



2. Damonia siihtrijuga. 



Emys trijuga {non Schweiyg.), Sclileg. Faun. Japon., Rept. p. 64 



(i83;3)." 

 subtrijuga, Schley. S) Miill. in Temminck, J^cr/t. Naturk. 



Ncderl. IiuL]). uO (1844); Hubrecht, Notes Leyd. Mils. iii. p. 48 



(1881). 

 Geoclemmys niacrocephala, Gray, Proc. Zool, Soc. 1859, p. 479, 



pi. xxi.. ami 1861, p. 139. 

 Clemmys niacrocephala, Strauck, Chelon. Stud. p. 32 (1862). 

 Emys nuchalis, Blyfh, Jviirn. As. Soc. Beny. xxxii. p. 82 (1863). 

 macrocephala (no« Gray, 1844), Gibdh. liept. Brit. Ind. p. 31 



(18G4). 

 Damonia macrocephala, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc, 18G9, p. 194, atid 



Sappl. Cat. Sh. licpt. i. p. 43 (1870). 

 Bellia michalis, Gray, Suppl. p. 41. 

 Damonia oblonga, Gray, Ann, S^- May. N. H. (4) viii. 1871, p. 367, 



ayid xi. 1873, p. 299. 



Carapace depressed, tricarinato, the lateral keels not extending to 

 the fourth costal shields ; posterior border not serrated ; nuchal 

 moderate, broadest behind ; vertebrals 2 to 4 a little broader than 

 long, much narrower than the costals. Plastron smaller than the 

 opening of the shell, flat in both sexes, angulated laterally, truncate 

 anteriorly, angularly notched posteriorly ; the width of the bridge 

 nearly ccpials the length of the hind lobe ; the abdominal shields 

 form the longest median suture ; the suture between the gulars as 

 long as or. shorter than that between the hiimcrals ; axillary and 

 inguinal present, llead very large: snout projecting; up2)er jaw 

 emarginate mesially ; the width of the mandible at the syraj)hysis 

 exceeds the horizontal diameter of the orbit ; four large shields on 

 the head — one round the upper jaw, another covering the snout and 

 the crown, and one on each side between the eye and the ear. 

 Digits webbed to the claws. Tail extremely short. Shell brown 

 above, with a more or less distinct black spot on each shield ; plas- 

 tron yellow, each shield with a large black blotch. Soft parts dark 

 brown ; a yellow streak from the end of the snout to the temple, 

 following the canthus rostralis and the supraorbital edge ; another 



