16 Mil. W. TIIEOI^ALD, JUN., ON THE 



existence. Should no purchaser appear, the fisherman will take 

 the animals to his home, and perhaps turn them loose for the 

 night. If any escape, well and good ; if not, the animals are 

 sacrificed to the Nats, and the flesh eaten Avithout compunction. 

 The dead animals they will freely dispose of; but it is supposed 

 that the Nats would deeply resent the sale for slaughter of one of 

 these animals to a foreigner or Kalit. By a strange omission, 

 Giinther, though he alludes to this species (Eept. Brit. Ind. p. 41), 

 does not include it in his list; doubtless the recorded habitat, 

 " Bengal," of the type specimen is an error due to the specimen 

 havingbeen shipped from Bengal — unless the term " Bengal " must 

 be liberally interpreted as a synonym of British India, by no means 

 an unlikely supposition. 



B. I/INEATA, Gray. 



This species is somewhat scarce in Pegu, thougli perhaps 

 commoner atMaulmain ; but I refer a young animal to it which 

 Capt. Poster shot near Tonghu, and obligingly presented me with. 



a. Half-grown 12-GO 



IIGO 

 10-GO 

 Colour above smoky olive-grey. Below pale yellow. 



B. AEFiNis, Cantor * *. 



This species probably ranges into Tcnasscrim or Pegu, though 

 I have never met with it. It is evidently most closely allied to 

 JB. triviUata ; but the sexes have not been described in detail, and 

 the absence of a nuchal plate sufficiently proves its specific dis- 

 tinctness. It pi'obably afl^ords an instance of a closely allied 

 representative species, as Testuclo platynotus, Blyth, does of the 

 Indian T. elegans, Sch. 



B. Beudmoeet, Blytli. 



Emys ocellala, D. et B. apud Blyth, J. A. S. xxiv. (545. 



E. ooellata, D. ct B. apud Giinther, Reptile Catalogue, p. 24. 

 Nuchal oblong, twice as long as broad. Pirst four vertebrals 

 subequal, squarish ; second and tliird the largest, broader than 

 long. Shell high, round, and smooth, with wavy surface ; pattern 

 of the bony plates showing through the extremely thin liorny 

 covering. Sternum flat, obtusely but distinctly keeled at the 

 sides, the outward sloping surface of the sternum being three- 

 fourths as broad as its ventral portion between the keels. A 



