614 MK. STANIiET S. FLO WEE. ON THE [May 16, 



10. Ctclemts moijhotii Gl-ray. 



Cydemys mouliotii, Blgr. Cat. Chel. etc. p. 132. 

 The type specimens collected by M. Mouhot in the Laos Moun- 

 tains are in the British Museum. 

 Hah. Siam, Cochinchina, Cachar. 



11. Ctclemts amboinensis (Daud.). 



Cistudo amboinensis, Cantor, p. 5. 



Cuora amboinensis, Griinth. Eept. Brit. Ind. p. 12, pi. iv. figs. 

 A, B. 



Cydemys amboinensis, Blgr. Cat. Chel. etc. p. 133 (skull fig. 

 p. 128 ; shell fig. p. 129). 



" Baning " of the Malays, according to Cantor. 



" Kura kura patah " of the Perak Malays, according to L. "Wray. 



Localities. The Box-Tortoise is the chelonian most frequently 

 met with in the Straits Settlements, and seems generally distri- 

 buted in the low country, living in ponds, streams, and paddy-fields. 

 I have seen specimens from Alor Star in Ivedah, from Peuang, 

 from Taiping in Perak, from Malacca, and from Singapore. There 

 are a score or more living in the Ayer Etam Tortoise Temple. I 

 did not meet this species myself in Siam proper, but the British 

 Museum Catalogue mentions a specimen from Siam. 



Habits. When first caught they are very shy ; for some weeks 

 on being touched they will at once shut themselves up in their 

 shells, but they gradually get used to people being about them. 

 They feed fairly regularly on vegetables, preferring bananas, but 

 only eat small quantities at a time (a great contrast to the greedy 

 C. platynota). 



Size. An adult male from Kedah measured : — 



Leneth of carapace following curve 216 mm. 



Breadth „ „ „ 214 _ „ 



Hah. Burma, Siam, Malay Peninsula, Borneo (I met this species 

 at Brunei), Celebes, (iilolo, Amboina, and Philippines. 



12. GrEOEMTDA SPINOSA Gray. 



Oeomyda spinosa, Blgr. Cat. Chel. etc. p. 137 ; S. Plower, P. Z. S. 

 1896, p. 859. 



Localities. The Spinous Tortoise is found in jungle-streams 

 apparently only in the hills, in Penang and Perak at elevations of 

 some thousand feet above the sea, but in Singapore it is found on 

 Bukit Timah at less than 500 feet. It is one of the mountain 

 forms which are thus found at a low elevation in Singapore, as if 

 Bukit Timah had once equalled the more northern granite hills in 

 height, and when it gradually sank by subsidence or denudation the 

 animals and plants on it had to accommodate themselves to this 

 lower level. I find that Cantor noticed this, having written in 

 1847 of Singapore : — " In the valleys occur vegetable and animal 

 forms which at Pinang have been observed at or near the summit 

 of the hills, but not in the plains. Thus, at Singapore occur Also- 



