16. OEOEMYDA. 



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1. Geoemyda spinosa. 



Emys spinosa, Gray, Syn. Eept. p. 20 (1831), and III. Ind. Zool. i. 



pi. Ixxvii. fig.s. 1, 2 (1832) ; Bell, Mon. Test. p. — , pis. xxvi. & 



xxvii. (1834) ; Dum. .y Bibr. ii. p. 327 (1834). 

 Geoemyda spinosa, Gray, Proc. Zool. S'oc. 1834, p. 100, and III. Iml. 



ZooLii. pi. Ivii. fig. 2 (1834), and Cat. Tort. p. 14(1844), and >Sh. 



Bept. i. p. U; (18oo) ; Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 18 (1804) ; Theoh. 



Cat. Bupt. Brit. Ind. p. 5 (1870). 

 Clemmvs spinosa, Strauch, Chelon. Stud, p. 32 (1862), and Verth. 



Schifdlo: p. 63 (1805). 



Carapace of adult much depressed, with broad flat vertebral 



Fig. 39. 



Shell of Geoemyda grandis. 



region and an uninterrupted obtuse keel ; anterior and posterior 

 margin serrated; of young more regularly arched, -with a short 

 keel or spinose tubercle on each costal shield, and the border 

 strongly serrated all round, each marginal being produced in a 

 spine, with or without smaller denticulation on each side ; the 

 vertebral keel stronger than in the adult. Vertebral shields (2-4) 



