1869.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON A NEW FRESHWATER TORTOISE 499 
the male, the horns may be those of an individual monstrosity, and 
not of the normal form; but this I consider to be very doubtful. 
If they are not quite of the normal form, it is clear they are not a 
monstrosity of the regularly forked horns of Furcifer. 
3. Description of Mauremys laniaria, a New Freshwater 
Tortoise. By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. &c. 
(Plate XXXVIL.) 
Mr. Bartlett has kindly obtained for me from a dealer a small 
young living freshwater Tortoise which had passed through several 
hands, and was therefore without any reliable history or habitat. 
MAUREMYS LANIARIA, sp. nov. (Plate XXXVII., young.) 
The head short, broad; nose very short, broad, rounded; the 
eyes very large and prominent, on the side of the head; front of face 
high; beak thick, convex; lips convex on the edge; central notch 
simple; lower beak short, convex externally ; crown dark olive; 
neck minutely granular, blackish olive above, with some very narrow 
reddish lines underneath; sides and underside reddish, with many 
more or less wide black and green lines, those on the back of the 
throat widest. 
Legs dark olive; fore legs olive, with large, irregular, prominent 
tubercles in front, and with a broad irregular streak on the lower 
half of the front side; the front toes or fingers short, thick, united 
by a narrow fleshy web to the claws, each finger with a series of 
larger triangular scales on the upper surface; claws short, acute. 
Hind feet large, square, the toes thick, united by a narrow fleshy web 
to the claws, and with one or two scales on the upper part of the 
base. Tail short, thick, granular, with some whorls of distant minute 
spines near the base (tip injured); the hinder part of a dark olive, 
with reddish streaks and minute spines. 
Thorax depressed, rounded above, the side margin slightly revo- 
lute, dark olive-green above; the shields blackish horn-coloured, 
smooth or slightly annulated, and irregularly convex; the third, 
fourth, and fifth vertebrae slightly keeled; the marginal shields 
blackish olive, very obscurely and irregularly varied with reddish 
brown above and blackish beneath. 
The sternum flat, truncated in front, and notched behind, raised 
on the sides, black, more or less varied with white on the margin of 
the front and hinder lobes, and on the sides of the central plates. 
This animal is strictly carnivorous, and eats most ravenously in 
confinement. 
This Terrapin agrees in the dull dark plain colour with a species 
described by me in the ‘ Proceedings’ of the Society for 1860, under 
the name of Emys fuliginosus (p. 232, Rept. t. xxx.), which differs 
Proc. Zoou. Soc.—1869, No. XXXIII. 
