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Now, with regard to E. lineata, this species was at first " estahlished on the 

 drawings of a nearly adult animal of this genus in Hardwicke's collection in the 

 British Museum^ which is of uniform pale olive colour." The crown of the head is 

 brown, and the upper part of the neck is pale brown, with seven red-brown streaks, 

 the sides of the face and temple are bluish, and the chin with two yellow spots on 

 the sides near the glandular orifices. Dr. Gray states that the same species is 

 evidently figured by Dr. Hamilton under the name of JEmys kachuga, but the 

 stripes on the sides of the neck are much brighter red-brown. A copy of his 

 drawing is pubhshed in the 111. Ind. Zool. as Batagur hacliuga, Gray. In the 

 Oat. of Shd. Rept., 1855, p. 35, four specimens are referred to this species, and 

 a specimen from Nepal is figured at Plate xvii. 



This specimen shows no lineation on the neck, and from its general characters 

 I am disposed to regard it as a female. I have received from Purneah a male 

 tortoise exactly resembhng this figure of Bmys Tcachuga in all its details, and for 

 which I am indebted to Mr. G. W. Shillingf ord. The form of the vertebral plates is 

 the same as those of the tortoise figured in the Shd. Eept., Plate xvii. Moreover, 

 I have received, as I have already said from Patehgarh, about 200 miles to the north- 

 west of Purneah, a tortoise of the same size, and presenting all the characters of 

 the specimen first figured from the same locality by Gray, but considerably smaller 

 and very much younger than the Purneah animal. 



The form of the shell and plates, and the characters of the upper surface of 

 the palate, and the coloration of the neck, seem to me, all to point to the Patehgarh 

 Batagur, described along with a Cyclemys under the name JE. dentata, as being the 

 young of Emys lineata. I have also from the Godavery the shell of a young 

 Batagur, 6 inches long, agreeing with Giinther's^ figure of B. ellioti, and the 

 resemblances of this shell to the shell of the Patehgarh specimen are so great that 

 I cannot but consider the two as identical, or that the Godavery form is only a sub- 

 species. Dr. Gray, however, while at last^ allowing that the term Bmys dentata 

 was applicable to this Batagur and not to a Cyclemys, separated between Kachuga 

 lineata and K. dentata, restricting the former term, B. lineata, to the animal 

 depicted by General Hardwicke's drawing and figured from Buchanan Hamilton's 

 drawings as Emys kachuga, and limiting the latter term to the upper figure on 

 Tab. 58, Vol. II, of the 111. Ind. Zool., with which he regarded B. ellioti to be 

 identical, and to the specimen d which he had referred^ to B. lineata. I have, 

 however, carefully examined this specimen d, and I cannot see that it differs from 

 B. lineata. 



In connection with B. lineata, I may mention that under Kachuga fusca two 

 specimens were referred by Dr. Gray to this latter species, one from Burma, col- 

 lected by Theobald, and the other from Nepal, collected by Hodgson. The latter 



1 Gray, Suppl. Cat. Shd. Kept., 1870, p. 56. 

 » Eept., Brit. Ind., PL III, figs. A, Al. 

 3 supp|_ to the Cat. of Shd. Kept., 1870, p. 56. 

 * Cat. of Shd. Eept., 1855, p. 36. 



