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have hitherto vainly sought for it, however, among the many hun- 
dreds of Emypes from this neighbourhood which I have seen in the 
course of more than twenty years of collecting.* Length of the 
Ava specimen, which I consider to be full grown 9$ in. The young 
of this species is figured as H. Belangeri, Lesson, in the Atlas to 
Belanger’s Voyage aux Indies Orientalis ; and in the Society’s copy 
of that work, purchased at the sale of the late Dr. H. Walker’s 
library, #. Belanger is identified by that naturalist (in a pencil- 
note) with Geomyda tricarinata, nobis (J. A. 8S. XXIV, 714), from 
Chaibasa, central India; but this is a mistake. I doubt if Emys 
TRICARINATA, nobis, attains to nearly so large a size as HE. TRIUUGA, 
and it is readily distinguished by the uniform yellowish-white colour 
of the plastron, the second, third, fourth and fifth pairs of plates upon 
which are of about equal size, constituting a strongly marked dis- 
tinction from E. trijuga. The carapace of our only specimen is 5} 
in. long. Another (forwarded many years ago to the India-house 
museum) was quite similar. The palms and soles of this species 
are much dilated (or roundly heeled, it might be termed), indicating 
terrene habits (whence I formerly placed itin Gromypa). Another 
species which has been confounded with H. TrisuG@a, is the Gro- 
CLEMYS S1Ba, Gray, from Ceylon, of which we possess two speci- 
mens presented by Dr. Kelaart. 
Mr. Blanford’s other Tortoise from ‘ Arakan hills,” is the adult 
of CYCLEMYS DENTATA, Gray, ibid, p. 42 and pl. XIX.; but with 
age this species elongates and loses the dentate appearance of the 
posterior margin, so as to be hardly,if at all, recognisable from Gray’s 
plate. Length of adult 83 by 53 in.; of another less elongated and 
retaining the posterior denticulation 8 by 6 in. 
In the same collection is also a large skull of Baragar BAsKar, 
Gray (v. Tetronyx Lessoni, D. and B., &c. &c.). 
A common Emys of the southern Tenasserim provinces is the E. 
CRASSICOLLIS, Bell, as figured in Hardwicke’s ZU. Ind. Zool. This 
species I designated #. nigra in J. A. S. XXIV, 713, having mis- 
* The commonest Calcutta species is EK. rectum; next E. Haminroni and 
H. Toursit; EH. ocrnpata, D. and B., is much more rare; E. tenrorta (closely 
akin to TECTUM) belongs to the Indus river-shed, and is very doubtfully Gange- 
tic; BaraguR BaskaR, Gray (TETRonyx LussoniI, D. and B.,) is brought 
abundantly to Calcutta to be eaten by certain classes of natives; Hmypa punc 
TATA and TRIONYX GANGETICUS are common, and of Carrra rnpica I have obtain 
ed one specimen only, 
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