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black, with j-ellow borders. Giinther likens this species to 

 T. grcBca. Length of Sir A. Burne's specimen in the Asiatic 

 Society's Museum, 6 inches. 



Inhabits Afghanistan, and according to Giinther, Nipal, on the 

 authority of a drawing belonging to Brian H. Hodgson, Esq. 



Manoueia, Gray. 



Assuming the correctness of Dr. Anderson's views (P. Z. S., 

 Lon., May 1S71) the emended characters of the genus will stand 

 thus. 



General characters much as in Testudo, but with the caudal 

 plate divided. Pectoral plates separated in males, but tangential 

 to each other in females. Claws five before, four behind. Hind 

 toes webbed. 



M. emys Miill et Schl. 



Testvdo Phayrei, Blyth. J. A. S., B., 18.53, p. 639. 

 Teetudo Phayrei, Blyth. Anderson, P. Z. S., May 1871. 

 Scaphia Falconeri, Gn^ay. P. Z. S., 1869, p. 167. 

 Testudo emys Mull et Sch. Anderson, P. Z. S., Feb. 1S7-2. 

 Scaphia gigantea, Gray. Cat. S. R., p. 18. (P. Z. S., 1873, 

 p. 725) ! ! 



Nuchal plate broad. Four first vertebrals hexagonal; the 

 last septagonal, owing to the double caudal. Vertebral and 

 costal plates, with a central areola, surrounded by concentric 

 strise of growth. Colour of young shells dull, olive brown, 

 with horny areolae ; of adults, wholly black. Grows to 20 inches 

 length. 



Inhabits Assam, the Naga HiUs, Kachar, Arakan, the 

 Malayan Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, fcc. 



Those who desire -to follow the controversy which followed my 

 identification of the type skull of Gray's genus Scaphia with the 

 missing skuU of Blyth's T. Phayrei, may consult the pages of the 

 Athenceum for November 1870, and February and March 1871 ; 

 the Proceedings, Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1874, p. 75 ; and the 

 Appendix to the Catalogue of Shield Reptiles, p. 7, 



