264 DR. J. E. GRAY ON TWO NEW TORTOISES. ([Noy, 25, 
3, Notice or two New Species or BATAGUR IN THE COL- 
LECTION OF THE BritisH Musrum. By Dr. J. E. Gray. 
Dr. Giinther, who is re-examining the Indian Tortoises in the Bri- 
tish Museum, has drawn my attention to two young specimens of 
the genus Batagur, which he believes to be different from those that 
I have hitherto described; and as there appears every reason to believe 
that they indicaté species that has not hitherto been recorded in the 
Catalogue, I shall proceed to describe them provisionally until we 
receive more adult representatives of them. They both belong to 
the subgenus called Kachuga, as defined in my ‘Catalogue of 
Shield Reptiles in the British Museum’ (p. 35). 
BaATAGUR PICTA. 
Pale grey-brown, with three interrupted dark brown streaks on 
the back, and a more or less triangular dark brown spot on the front 
margin of the marginal shields; beneath uniform pale yellow. Nu- 
chal shield none. The first vertebral plate oblong, four-sided, rather 
longer than broad; the second, third, and fourth six-sided, second 
and third as long as broad, the fourth rather longer than broad. 
The margin entire, bent up behind. The pectoral and anal plate as 
long as broad. Head (when dry) pale olive, blackish on each side. 
Hab. Borneo, Sarawak (Wallace). 
Length 11, width 83 inches. Not full-grown, and with large inter- 
costal spaces on the sides, showing that this species grows to a much 
larger size. 
BaATAGUR ELLIOTI. 
Young state. Pale grey-brown, one-coloured when dry ; the hinder 
margin strongly and acutely serrated. Nuchal shield broad, short. 
Second, third, and fourth vertebral shields strongly keeled, and end- 
ing in an acute prominence; the first square, rather broader than 
long; second and third six-sided, broader than long; fourth six- 
sided, longer than broad. Underside uniform pale yellow. The 
gular plate triangular; the pectoral and anal shorter than broad. 
The head dusky brown; temple and beak yellow, with a blackish 
streak from the nostril to the orbit, and continued behind from the 
orbit over the tympanum. 
Hab. Southern India, River Kistna (Walter Elliot). 
The specimen is very young, with very large narrow intercostal 
spaces, showing that it grows to a considerable size. It is known 
from all the other species by its sharp dentated margin. This cha- 
racter may be obliterated in the adult specimens ; but I am not aware 
that it occurs in any other young Batagur, and we have most of the 
described species in a young state. The specimen here described was 
procured from Mr. Warwick, the dealer, witaout any habitat. But 
Dr. Giinther has shown me a drawing, which has been sent to him 
by my excellent friend Mr. Walter Elliot, of Wolfelee, with the above 
haWtat attached to it, which is so like the specimen described as 
