1G2 TESTtlDINID^. 



yellow raj-s radiate ; these rays usually narrow and very numerous ; 

 plastron likewise with black and yellow radiating streaks, 



Lcii;^'th of shell liG centim. 



India and Ceylon. 



a, h. $ k vg., shells. Sind. Dr. Leith [P.]. 



c. Yg., spiV. Ganjam. F. Day, Esq. [P.]. 



d, c, f. cf $ , stffd. India. 

 ff. Ugr., spir. India. 



h. Yg., shell. India. Dr. ralconer [P.]. 



t. 2, stffd. Ceylon. Dr. .J. E. Gray [P.]. 



k. 2, stffd. Cevlon. 



I. ? , stffd. Muscat, Arabia (im- A. S. G. Jayakar, Esq. [P.]. 



ported ':'). 



m, n, o, p, q. $ & yg., ? 



shells. 



10. Testiido platynota. 



Testudo platvnota, Bh/th, Journ. As. Soc. Benrj. xxxii. p. 8.", (ISHS) ; 

 Thcoh. Cat. Bvpt. Brit. hid. p. 2 (1870); Anders. Zool. Res. Yun- 

 nan, p. 712 (1871)). 



Peltastes platyuotus, Grcnj, Suppl. Cat. Sh. Bept. i. p. 8 (1870), and 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870, p. Goo, pi. xxxiii. 



Very closely allied to tlic preceding, but carapace more regularly 

 oval, posterior border not or but very sightly expanded, and more 

 feebly serrated ; vertebral shields flat. Y^ellow raj's on the discal 

 shields wider and fewer, usually three to the right and three to the 

 left of each shield ; plastron yellow, with some large black blotches 

 but without radiating streaks. According to Anderson, the scales 

 on the fore limb are fewer and all rounded, the sharp scales on the 

 heel are absent, and the conical scales on the posterior portion of 

 tlie thigh are very much smaller and not at all prominent. 



Upper Burma and Northern Pegu. 



a, b, c. Ad. & yg., shells. Burma. W. Theobald, Esq. [C.]. 



11. Testudo geometrica. 



Testudo geometrica, Zinn. S. N. i. p. .35;i (176G) ; Schocpf, Test. 



p. 49, pi. X. (1792) ; Daud. Rcpt. ii. p. 260, pi. xxv. fig. 1 "(1802) ; 



Bell, Mon. Test. pi. — (1835); Dum. ^- Bihr. ii. p. 57 (1835) ; 



Graif, Cat. Tort.T^. 8 (IMA), and Sh. Bept. i. p. 8 (1855); Strauch, 



Chelon. Stud. p. 74 (1862) ; Boulemj. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 541. 



luteola, Daud. I. c. p. 277, pi. xxv. fig. 3. 



Cliersine geometrica, Merr. Tent. p. 32 (1820). 



Peltastes geographicus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 173. 



geometricus, Gray, Suppl. Cat. Sh. Bept. i. p. 9 (1870). 



Shell very convex, the dorsal shields sometimes swollen and sub- 

 conical ; margin not forming an angle with the costal shields, not or 

 but feebly reverted or serrated ; shields very strongly striated con- 

 centrically; 11 marginals on each side, rarely 12; nuchal elongate, 



