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brown carapace, with dark brown markings. Length of shell 

 540 mm. 



N o m. i n d i g. Baning (Borneo). 



Type-specimens examined in the Leyden Museum. 



Habitat: Sumatra! (Pulo Telang and Sukaranda in Langkat, 

 Kotta Sani near Solok!, Singalang 1600 1800 feet!, Padang!, 

 Padang Highlands, Tarat); Borneo (Simanggang, Batang Lupar, 

 Akar river!, Baram river, Mt. Dulit, Sambas!, Madi-plateau!); 

 Java? 1 ). Malay Peninsula; Penang; Burma; Siam; Assam; 

 S. China. 



Lives in dry parts of the woods. 



2. Testudo forsteni Schleg. & Mull. 



Testudo forstenii, Schlegel & Miiller, in Temminck, Verh. Nat. Nederl. Ind. 



1844, p. 30. 



Testudo forstenii, Boulenger, Cat. Chel. 1889, p. 174. 

 Testudo forstenii^ Siebenrock, Zool. Jahrb. Suppl. X 1909, p. 539. 



Carapace somewhat depressed, with a flat vertebral region, 

 more than twice as long as high; posterior margin with 

 rounded lobes; nuchal absent; vertebrals much more broad 

 than long, about as broad as the costals; supracaudal single; 

 dorsal shields with concentric lines. Plastron large, deeply 

 notched posteriorly; suture between the pectorals half that 

 between the numerals; anals separated by the anal notch; 

 axillary and inguinal shields moderate. Head moderate; prae- 

 frontals large, frontal almost as large; upper jaw feebly hooked, 

 tricuspid. Fore limbs covered anteriorly with unequal, imbricate 

 scales, the outmost largest, five claws; hind limbs with four claws. 

 Tail short, with a large horny scale at the end. 



Brown above and below, with a few black spots; on the 

 abdominal shields a large black blotch. Length of shell 170 mm. 



Type-specimen examined in the Leyden Museum. 



Habitat: Celebes! (Mt. Boliohuto near Sulamatta, Buol); 

 Halmahera!. 



3. Fam. CHELONIIDAE. 



Shell covered with epidermal shields. Neck incompletely 

 retractile; ear hidden. Plastron large; inframarginalia present; 



i) See Notes Leyden Mus. XVII 1895/96 p. 197, where Dr. van Lidth de 

 Jeude discusses the synonymy of this species. 



