BEPTILES OF BRITISH BIRMA, 11 



GrKOMTDA, Gray. 

 G. aiiANDTS, Griintlier. 



Colour of the animal pale muddy-olive, profusely spotted with 

 dull orauge. Colour of the shell ahove very dark brown, almost 

 black, below finely black- and yellow-rayed. In adult shells very 

 little ray-marking is to be seen on the thorax, save towards the 

 edges ; and the sliell is usually much eroded or incrusted with 

 weeds. 



a. Adult male, from Pegu. I. Adult female. 

 1500 13 75 



11-00 1200 



1300 11-50 



This species is not abundant either in Pegu or Tenasserim. 

 The eggs are laid in December, and are exceedingly large and 

 strong, four iu number ; and the empty shell weighs 1G5 grains, 

 measurement 2-5G X 1-GO. The female digs a hole about 9 inches 

 deep in the most unfrequented forest, often in very stony soil, 

 and, although she deposits many eggs in the season, yet only lays 

 four at one time, differing in this respect from the more typical 

 Emydidaj, and approaching Testudo. Pegu specimens would 

 seem to run uniformly smaller than the Gamboja race, as I have 

 never noted one so large as Gilnther's type, viz. 17 inches. 



Cfora, Graif. 

 C. Amboinensis, Daud. 



Colour above bhick (Q iintlicr says brown ; but botli my speci- 

 mens arc rather black tlian brown) with pale vertebral lines. Below 

 pale primrose-yellow, with a black blotch at the outer posterior 

 angle of each plate, both ventrals and marginals. Giinther says 

 that this species attains 8 inches, without specifying if straight or 

 round the shell ; but two specimens procured by me measured as 

 below, botli from Pegu. 



a. Adult male .... 975 h. Adult female . . . 10-00 



900 9-50 



6-75 8-00 



This species is not an abundant one in Pegu ; and the above 

 are the only two I ever procured. 



Family EMTDIDiE. 

 BitvydincG with the sternum flat iu both sexes. 



