295 

 4- Damonia Gray. 



(GRAY, Proc. Zool. Soc. London p. 193, 1869). 



Head covered with small shields on its posterior part only. 

 Skull with a bony temporal arch; alveolar surface broad, no 

 median ridge; choanae behind the eye. Neural plates hexagonal, 

 short-sided anteriorly. Plastron united to the carapace by 

 suture. Digits entirely webbed, with five claws on the fore 

 limb, four on the hind limb. Tail short. 



Distribution. India; China; Japan; Malacca; Java. 



A single species. 



i. Damonia subtrijuga (Schleg. & Mull.). 



Emys subtrijuga^ Schlegel & Miiller, in Temminck, Verb. Natuurk. Ned. Ind. 



1844, p. 30. 



Damonia subtrijuga^ Boulenger, Cat. Chel. 1889, p. 94 (s. syn.). 

 Geoclemys stibtrijuga^ Siebenrock, Zool. Jahrb. Suppl. X 1909, p. 476. 

 Geoclemys subtrijuga, Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harv. Coll. XLIV 1912, 



p. 142. 



Fig. 108. Damonia subtrijuga (Schleg. & Miill.). 



Carapace depressed, with three keels, the lateral keels not 

 reaching the fourth costal shield; posterior margin not serrated ; 



