14. NICOKIA. 123 



Var. edeniana. 



Moliuioclielvs edenian.a, Theoh. I. c. 



Einys trijiiga, var. bunnana, Anders. I. c. p. "I'O, pis. Ivii. & Iviii. 



A larger race, with the slicll deep black, with a sternal border, 

 and sometimes also the keels, yellowish. Light markings on the 

 head, if ])resent, small. 



Lengtii of shell 40 centim. 



Burma. 



«-/•. Ilgr. & yg., spir. Bhamo. M. L. Fea [C.l. 



ffy'h. d ? , shells. Burma. W. Theobald, Esq. [C.]. 



3. Nicoria punctularia. 



Testudo scabra {non L.), Daud. llept. ii. p. 129 (1802). 



punctularia, Daiid. I. c. p. 240. 



Emys puuctularia, Schiceit/f/. Pvodr. p. 30 (1814) ; Dum. S, Bihr. ii. 



p. 243 (1835) ; GUnth. BioJ. C.-Ain., Itepf. p. (1885). 

 Chersine punctularia, Men: Tent. p. 20 (1820). 

 4]mys dorsualis, Sjn.v, Test. Bras. p. 11, pi. ix. figs. 1 &2 (1824). 

 scabra, Gray, Syn. Rept. p. 24 (1831 ) ; Bell, Mon. Test. p. — , 



pis. xxix. & XXX. (1834); Gray, Cat. Tort. p. 20 (1844), and Cat. 



Sh. Kept. i. p. 31 (1855). 

 Clemmvs punctularia, Strauch, Chelon. Stud. pp. 33 & 128 (1862), 



and Verth. >'SchilJkr. p. 81 (18G5). 

 Geoclemmys callocephalus, Gray, Proc. Zool, Soc. 1863, p. 254, and 



Suppl. Cat. Sh. Rept. i. p. 27 (1870). 

 Rhinoclemmys scabra, Gray, Ann. ^- May. N. II. (3) xii. p. 182 



(1863), and Suppl. Cat. Sh. Rept. i. p. 30, and Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870, 



p. 722, tig. 



bellii, Gray, II. cc. 



? Chelopus punctularius, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1865, p. 185. 

 Rhinoclemmys lunata. Gray, Ann. ^- Mag. N. H. (4) xi. p. 144 



(1873). 



callocephala. Gray, I. c. 



ventricosa, Gray, I. c. p. 145. 



Carapace moderately depressed, unicarinate, often openly emargi- 

 nate anteriorly. Vertebral shields, in the adult, about as broad 

 as long, and much narrower than the costals ; nuchal very small, 

 sometimes absent. Plastron large ; the width of the bridge exceeds 

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

 lobe truncate or openly emarginate anteriorly. Axillary and in- 

 guinal shields present, small. Dorsal shields granular, rough, in the 

 young. Head small, snout projecting ; upper jaw not hooked, with 

 a sli"ht, sometimes indistinct notch ; the width of the mandible at 

 the symphysis is much less than the horizontal diameter of the 

 orbit. Digits shortly but distinctly webbed. Tail not longer than 

 the head. Shell dark brown, plastron bordered with yellowish. 

 Head dark brown above, with an obli(iue yellowish (red) band on 

 each side, from above the orbit to above the ear, sometimes uniting 

 with ita fellow across the forehead ; a pair of roundish red spots in 

 front of the orbits and another on the occiput ; sides of head and 



