500 DR. A. GUNTHER ON INDIAN REPTILES. [Nov. 1], 
from it in the form and length of the head, in the markings on the 
head and neck, and in having a more depressed shell. 
This Terrapin (Emys fuliginosa) differs so much in the form of 
the jaws, that it is necessary to consider it the type of a new genus, 
characterized by the depth and length of the groove of the upper 
jaw, and the sharp simple edge of the lower jaw. It may be called 
MAuvREMYS. 
The head elongate, covered with a smooth skin; nose with the 
nostrils near the upper edge; crown flat; eyes lateral, large, and 
very prominent ; pupils circular. 
Upper beak high, lower edge slightly arched, with an acute notch 
in the centre. 
Lower beak convex, rounded below in front, scarcely reaching the 
angle of the mouth. 
Palate slightly concave; inner‘ nostrils near the middle of the 
palate, oblong, with a concavity behind each; alveolar edge of the 
upper jaw with a deep groove, with a strong acute ridge on the 
underside, extending nearly the whole length of the margin. The 
alveolar edge of the lower jaw sharp and. narrow, broader, shelving 
inwardly in front. 
(1) MavREMYS FULIGINOSA. 
Emys fuliginosa, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 228, t. xxx, 
(2) Mauremys LANIARIA. 
4. Report on two Collections of Indian Reptiles. 
By Dr. Atsert Gtntuer, F.R.S., F.Z.8: 
(Plates XXXVIII., XXXIX., XL.) 
The British Museum has lately received two most valuable col- 
lections of Indian Reptiles. One was presented by Dr. A. H. Lerrn, 
who collected for a number of years at several localities, of which the | 
following require notice :— 
1. Deesa, a military station in Ghozerat. 
2. Matheran, a hill 2500 feet high, thirty miles east of Bombay. 
3. Mahabuleshwur, 4500 feet above the level of the sea, some fifty 
miles south of Bombay. 
4. Kotree, on the western bank of the Indus, opposite to Hy- 
derabad. 
This collection contained, beside several of the most common Rep- 
tiles, sixty-four species (most of them in numerous examples), which 
are enumerated in the following list. Four are undescribed. 
The second collection was made by R. H. Barnes, Esq., in Ceylon. 
I do not give a list, as it would not advance our previous knowledge 
