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rayed ; the first vertebral plate is nearly square, and the 

 second and third broad six-sided, the fourth long six-sided. 

 The sternum is truncated before and nicked behind ; the tail 

 short, length two and three-quarters, and breadth two inches. 

 This may be the young of the preceding, as the vertebral 

 plates alter their form by age ; but both the animal and shell 

 are yellow-spotted, and the shell is less toothed behind, 

 which is not the case with a young dry specimen of E. cras- 

 sicolUs in Mr. Bell's Collection. 



6. Emys Thurjii, (Thurgy Terrapin.) Testa oblonga 

 sub-convexa nigra, margine lutescente postice subdentato, 

 sterno nigro, lateribus subcarinatis, scutellis vertebralibus primo 

 quadrato, secundo et tertio late hexagonalibus ; capite nigres- 

 cente, superciliis mentoque lineolis luteis ornatis, pedibus 

 viridibus luteo maculatis. 



Testudo Thurjii, Hamilton, Icon. ined. (v. Mus. Ind.) 

 cop. Emys Thurjii, n. lUust. Ind. Zool. t. 



Habitat in India, Dr. Hamilton and General Hardwicke. 



Length six, breadth four inches ; the head blackish, with 

 a yellow band from the nostril over the eyes, and another 

 from the chin to the back of the throat. Is this Test, mela- 

 nocephala Daud. from Van Ernest's notes ? 



This may be the adult of E. crassicollis, but Mr. 

 Bell's stuffed specimen of that species has no appearance 

 of any yellow on the head. It was doubtless one of these 

 species that is represented in the Indian Sculpture, formed 

 out of Jade, formerly in possession of Dr. Flemming, and 

 lately presented to the British Museum. 



7.? Emys oculifera, (Eyehearing Terrapin.) Testa puUi 

 hemispherica depressa postice dentata, scutellis annulis nigris, 

 suturalibus connexis, sterno luteo, macuhs lineisque fuscis 

 ornato. 



Test, oculifera, Kulll. Beytr. 



Shell hemispherical, strongly toothed behind, shields ele- 

 vated, furrowed, granulate, grooved; each two connected 

 longitudinally by a largish round black spot, and horizon- 

 tally by a largish black circle, consequently each displaying 

 laterally two half eyes, and anteriorly and posteriorly two 

 half spots, except in the three last ones, which show only 

 the three half spots ; margin with a spot on each suture, the 

 point of which corresponds with the spot on the costal 

 shields, sternum yellow, with dark brown spots and streaks. 



