1899.] REPTILES OF THE MALAT PENINSTTLA AND SIAM. 6l0 



phila, Schizcea, Tacca crisiata, Gnetum, Nepenthes, Begonia, Evrymma, 

 aud others, which at Pinang appear to affect a much greater 

 elevation. Instances of reptiles in common to the plains of Singa- 

 pore and the hills of Pinang are : — Ptychozoon homalocephalum, 

 Gymnodactylus pidchellus, Lygosoma cJmlcides, Pllidion lineatum, 

 Typhlops niyro-alhus, Calamaria lumbricoidea, var., Leptophis 

 caudalineatus, Elaps intestinalis, E. niyromacidatus." 



Dr. Hanitsch (Eep. Eaffles Libr. & Mus. 1897, p. 9) records 

 this species from UIu Legeh. 



Habits. Lives day and night in the water and feeds on fruit and 

 vegetables. 



Size. A fine specimen from Government Hill, Penang, with a 

 remarkably depressed carapace measures :— 



Length of carapace following curve .... 198 mm. 

 Breadth „ „ „ . . . . 190 „ 



Rab. Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo (I met 

 this species at Sandakan and Brunei). 



13. G-EOEMYDA GBANDis Gray. 



Geoemyda grandis, Blgr. Cat. Chel. etc. p. 138. 



Localities. This grand Tortoise was originally described from 

 specimens from Pacheboue (Siam) and Cambodia collected by 

 M. Mouhot ; since then it bas been recorded from Burma, and now 

 three States in the Malay Peninsula can be added. 



1st, Penang. On visiting the Ayer Etam Tortoise Temple in 

 April 1898, we saw many of these fine tortoises there, said to have 

 been caught on the island. 



2nd, Province Wellesley. In the same month Mr. Bowen, 

 Sheriff of Penang, when on a shooting expedition in the Province, 

 caught a tortoise which he kindly gave me, which proved to belong 

 to this species. 



3rd, Kedah. In May and June 1898 I found it very numerous 

 in the neighbourhood of Alor Star, living in ponds, ditches, and 

 flooded paddy-fields. 



I have not seen it wild near Bangkok, but a very large water- 

 tortoise which is kept in some old palace and temple tanks 

 (together with the species, apparently Callagur piicta, mentioned 

 above) probably is Geoemyda grandis, but these old individuals are 

 so covered with a thick slimy green vegetable growth that they 

 are difficult to identify. 



The " sacred " tortoise I saw at Ayuthia, mentioned above, also 

 apparently belongs to this species, as does a carapace I picked up 

 in the bed of a dried-up pond at Pachim, on the Bangpakong 

 Eiver, in March 1897. 



Dr. Hanitsch (Eep. Eaffles Libr. & Mus. 1897, p. 9) records 

 Geoemyda grandis from two localities in the Malay Peninsula ; the 

 specimens, which he kindly allowed me to examine when passing 

 through Singapore, are, however, in one case Bellia crassioollis, and 

 in the other Cydemys platynota. 



Habits. Freshwater tortoises, but active when walking on 



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