676 MR. THEOBALD ON CERTAIN SPECIES OF TORTOISES. [ Nov. 1, 
derm, and by Fischer in 1839 for an Orthopteron. The habitat of 
this species was given by Dr. Gray as “India,” but should stand 
“from Arakan to Mergui”’ as already stated by Blyth (J. A. S. B. 
XXxil. p. 83). 
4, CycLemys orpicuata (Gray, l. c. p. 178). 
Mr. Theobald repeated the observations made by him with regard 
to the synonymy and sternal suture cf this species in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. Zool. vol. x. p. 12, 1869. 
5. KacuuGa PeGuEnsis (Gray, l. c. p. 200). 
The habitat of this species was given by Dr. Gray as “ India ;’’ but 
the specimen had probably come from Pegu. Mr. Theobald, how- 
ever, could confidently say that he had brought home no heads of 
Tortoises from Pegu of which the “thorax ”’ was ‘‘ unknown ;”’ and 
his impression was that this species had been founded on a skull 
(possibly aberrant) of either Tetraonyx lessoni or Batagur trivittata. © 
6. ‘ KacuuGa TRILINEATA, Theobald” (Gray, J. c. p. 209). 
Mr. Theobald denied that he had either named, described, or 
so much as admitted any Kachuga trilineata. The habitat was 
said to be “India;’’ but Mr. Theobald had brought home no skull 
of a three-streaked Emys from India, though he had brought some 
from Pegu. In 1867 Mr. Theobald had brought home specimens 
of two species of three-streaked Emydes, and had exhibited them 
to Dr. Gray at the British Museum. These were, according to Mr. 
Theobald’s identification, Hmys duvaucelii, Dum. & Bibr., from the 
Ganges, and &. trivittata, Dum. & Bibr., from the Irrawaddy ; of 
the latter he had brought home many skulls, including that of a 
fine female now in the British Museum. This skull differed greatly 
from that of the male, which was a smaller and more finely coloured 
animal, and would therefore probably prove to be that upon which the 
species called Kachuga trilineata by Dr. Gray had been established. 
7. KacHuGa OLDHAMI (Gray, l. c. p. 200). 
This species, from Pegu, Mr. Theobald considered to be likewise 
very doubtful, being based on a skull only, upon the distinctness 
of which Mr. ‘Theobald had no confidence whatever. 
8. KacHUGA BERDMORET, Blyth (Gray, 7. c. p. 204). 
Dr. Gray had rightly admitted this species (which had been 
wrongly identified by Dr. Giinther with the very distinct Z. ocel- 
lata, Dum. & Bibr.), but had left the habitat unknown, although it 
had not only been given by its describer, Mr. Blyth (J. A. S. B. 
xxvii. p. 281), but likewise by the author in his ‘Catalogue of the 
Reptiles of Pegu’ (p. 12), and although there were specimens of it 
in the British Museum both from Pegu and the Tenasserim pro- 
vinces, where it was abundant. JZ. ocellata, of which Mr. Theo- 
bald believed there was no specimen in the British Museum, was 
strictly confined to the region of the Ganges, just as ZL. berd- 
