305 



jaw hooked, bicuspid. Fore limb with broad band-like shields 

 anteriorly; digits webbed, claws long, curved, five on the fore 

 limb, four on the hind limb. Tail short. 



Carapace reddish-brown or yellowish-brown with radiating 

 brown lines. Young specimens with one or two round black 

 spots on each vertebral and costal shield. Plastron yellow, 

 brown-spotted or brown with yellow sutures; head yellowish- 

 brown; neck brown with yellow streaks, one beginning at the 

 posterior corner of the eye. Length of shell 360 mm. 



Nom. indig. Beijogo (Borneo). 



Habitat: Sumatra (Deli, Sukaranda in Langkat, Indragiri, 

 Taluk!); Banka; Java! (Tengger Mts. 1200 M.); Borneo! (Sebruang 

 Valley, Limbang, Brooketon, Kuching, Baram in Sarawak, 

 Bongon). Malay Peninsula; Singapore; Tenasserim; Cochin 

 China; Philippines. 



Likes shallow water; herbivorous. 



9. Testudo L. 



(LINNE, Syst. Nat. I p. 350, 1766). 



Head covered above with small horny shields. Skull with 

 weak or moderately broad temporal and postorbitai arches; 

 alveolar surface of upper jaw with one or two median ridges; 

 choanae between the eyes. Neural plates usually alternately 

 tetragonal and octagonal; costal plates alternately narrower 

 and wider; supracaudal usually single. Plastron united to the 

 carapace by suture, front lobe not movable, hind lobe some- 

 times movable. Limbs club-shaped, covered with large scales 

 or tubercles. Tail short. 



Distribution. S. Europe; S. Asia; Africa; America. 



Terrestrial and herbivorous. 



Key to the Indo-Australian species. 



A. Nuchal present 5 supracaudals two; pectoral shields 

 usually widely separated; heel with conical bony tu- 

 bercles i. T. emys p. 305. 



B. Nuchal absent ; supracaudal single ; anal shields separ- 

 ated; tail with a large horny scale at the end. ... 2. T. forsteni p. 307. 



i. Testudo emys Schleg. & Mull. 



Testudo emys, Schlegel & Muller, in Temminck, Verh. Nat. Nederl. Ind. 1840, 

 p. 34, Pi- IV. 



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