A NEW TORTOISE FROM TRAVANCORE. 561 



Length of shell 290 millimetres. 



This new species may be said to be intermediate between Testudo 

 elongata, Blyth., which inhabits Bengal, Burma, and. Siam, and T. 

 forsteni, Schleg. and Mull., from Celebes and Gilolo, being on the whole 

 nearer to the latter, from which it is distinguished, by the greater 

 extent of the median suture between the pectoral shields of the plastron, 

 whilst it differs from the former in the lesser extent of that suture, in 

 the absence of a nuchal shield, and in the much larger frontal shield. 



Mr. Ferguson informs me that this Tortoise is very common in the 

 Travancore hills between 500 and 1,000 feet altitude, but not higher, 

 so far as he can remember. 



