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nuchal broad behind; second to fourth vertebrals a little more 

 broad than long, narrower than the costals. Plastron smaller 

 than the opening of the shell, flat in both sexes, truncate 

 anteriorly, angularly notched posteriorly, angulate laterally; 

 width of bridge almost equals length of hind lobe; longest 

 median suture between the abdominals; suture between the 

 gulars about as long as that between the humerals; axillary 

 and inguinal shields present. Head large, covered with smooth 

 skin and small shields posteriorly; snout projecting; upper 

 jaw emarginate in the middle; mandibular symphysis broader 

 than the diameter of the orbit. Digits entirely webbed, fore 

 limb with five claws, hind limb with four. Tail very short. 



Carapace brown with an indistinct black spot on each shield; 

 plastron yellow, a large black blotch on each shield; soft parts 

 dark brown; a yellow band from the tip of the snout along 

 the canthus rostralis and the supraorbital edge to the temple, 

 another on the lores to the angle of the mouth; two or four 

 vertical streaks below the nostrils; a V~ or Y-shaped marking 

 on each side of the mandible; neck streaked with yellow; 

 limbs marked with yellow. Length of shell 200 mm. 



Habitat: Java! (Depok, Bantam, Duri, Batavia). Malay 

 Peninsula; Cambodja; Siam; Cochin China. 



Aquatic tortoise; carnivorous. 



5. Bellia Gray. 

 (GRAY, Proc. Zool. Soc. London p. 197, 1869). 



Head covered with small shields posteriorly only. Skull with 

 a -bony temporal arch; alveolar surfaces moderately broad, no 

 median ridge ; choanae between the eyes. Neural plates hexa- 

 gonal, short-sided in front. Plastron united to the carapace 

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

 limbs, four on the hind limbs. Tail very short. 



Distribution. Burma; Siam; Malacca; Philippines; Sumatra; 

 Borneo; Java. 



A single species. 



i. Bellia crassicollis (Gray). 



Emys crassicollis, Gray, Syn. Rept. 1831, p. 21. 



Bellia crassicollis, Boulenger, Cat. Chel. 1889, p. 98 (s. syn.). 



Bellia crassicollis, Siebenrock, Zool. Jahrb. Suppl. X 1909, p. 478. 



Orlitia crassicollis, Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harv. Coll. XLIV 1912, p. 142. 



