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TESTUDlNID^. 



Plastron largo ; the width of the bridge equals or a little exceeds 

 the length of the posterior lobe, which is broadly notched ; front 

 lobe truncate. Proportions of the plastral shields as in the prece- 

 ding species; axillary and inguinal shields present. Upper jaw 

 not hooked, notched mcsially; the width of the mandible at the 

 symphysis is less than the diameter of the orbit. Digits distinctly 

 webbed. Tail shorter than the head. Shell brown, with a yellow 

 band on each side of the plastron ; keels sometimes yellowish. 

 Head brown, in the young reticulated with yellowish (in spirit), 

 and with a yellowish line from the eye to above the tympanum. 



Length of shell 22 centim. 



India. 



a, 5. $ & hgr., shells. 



c. Yg., shell. 



d. Yff., spn-. 



stfl'd. 



-6V 



e. Hgr.. 



/. Ig., spir. 

 ff. Ad., skull. 



Ramandroog, near Bel- 



lary, 300U feet. 

 Poonah. 

 Malabar. 

 India. 

 India. 

 India. 



Lord Dormer [P.]. 



Dr. Leith [P.]. 

 Col. Beddome [C.]. 

 Dr. J. E. Gray [P.]. 

 Lord A. Paissell [P.]. 

 Prof. Oldham [P.]. 



Var. thermalis. 



Emys thermalis, Lesson, Cent. Zool, p. 8G, pi. xxix. (18.30). 



Emys trijuga, Kelaart, Prodr. Faun. Zeyl. p. 177 (18o:J); Gunfh. 



Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 'I'd, pi. ii. fig. C (1864). 

 Geocleniniys seba, Gray, Cat. Sh. Hept. i. p. 18. 

 Clemuiys thermalis, Strauch, Chelon. Stud. p. 32, and VertJi. Schildkr. 



p. 60. 

 Melanochelys sebse, TJieob. Cat. liept. Bi-it, Ind. p. 12. 

 Emys trijuga, var. sebse, Anders. I. c. 



Shell dark brown in the young, with a broad yellow border to 

 the plastron ; keels often yellowish ; shell of adult deep black, with 

 a narrow yellow border to the plastron. Soft parts blackish ; head 

 of young and halfgrown with irregular bright-orange spots, which 

 disappear in the adult. 



Length of shell 21 centim. 



Ceylon. 



Zoological Society. 

 Zoological Society. 

 Dr. Kelaart. 



B. H. Barnes, Esq. [P.]. 

 Col. Beddome [C.]. ' 



G. C. Bourne, Esq. [C.]. 



