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land, and large specimens are very powerful. When touched or 

 picked up, they drasv in their legs and hiss loudly ; when turned 

 on their backs, they sometimes utter a little plaintive cry. The 

 jaws of old individuals are of great strength and wonderfully 

 jagged at the edges, almost like a series of teeth. They are 

 vegetable-feeders. 



Colour (in life). Skin o£ head and neck very dark brown, closely 

 vermiculated with dark yellow-ochre, except cutting-edge of lower 

 jaw, which is yellow. The bare skin from angle of mouth to 

 tympanum is white. Iris pale yellow ; space round iris light red, 

 with dark brown radiating lines. Tongue flesh-coloured. 



Size. Out of about twenty individuals from Kedah examined, 

 the largest male measured : — 



Length of carapace following curve 383 mm. 



Breadth „ „ „ 329 „ 



The largest female measured : — 



Length of carapace following curve 320 mm. 



Breadth „ „ „ 278 „ 



However, a tortoise from Bangkok, which I believe belonged to 

 this species (which I had intended presenting to the Zoological 

 Society, but was unfortunately lost in the wreck of the P. & 0. 

 s.s. ' China ' at Perim when on its way to London), was much 

 larger, and measured : — 



Length of carapace following curve 457 mm. 



Breadth „ „ „ 387 „ 



In June 1898 young tortoises of this species appeared in 

 Kedah with the carapace only about 50 mm. long ; 'they are very 

 different in appearance from the adults. 



llab. Burma, Siam, Cambodia, Malay Peninsula. 



14. Testudo emts Schleg. & Miill. 



Manouria emys Giinth, Eept. Brit. Ind. p. 10. 



Testudo emys Blgr. Cat. Chel. etc. p. 158 (skull fig. p. 150). 



" Baning" of the Perak Malays, according to L. Wray. 



Localities. The upland Land-Tortoise does not seem to have 

 been met with in the Penaug Hills since Cantor's time, and there 

 were no specimens of it in the Ayer Etam Tortoise Temple when 

 I visited it. In the Larut Hills in Perak, however, it seems to 

 be not uncommon, and there are several specimens in the museum 

 at Taiping, The only other locality in the Peninsula that it is 

 recorded from is the Bindings (P. Z. S. 1896, p. 860). The 

 British Museum Catalogue mentions a specimen from Siam. 



Eah. Assam, Burma, Siam, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo. 



15. Testudo elongaxa Blyth. 



Testudo elongata Blgr. Cat. Chel. etc. p. 173. 



Localities. The Elongated Land-Tortoise seems to be a hill- 



