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half a minute, during wliicli it made a long expiration, followed by a deep inspiration, 

 the creature then slowly subsiding, tail backwards, to the bottom. The animals, 

 unless they were much irritated, never attempted to bite, but when so treated, they 

 sluggishly seized any object put in their way holding it between their jaws with 

 considerable tenacity, at the same time withdrawing the head into the shell. They 

 moved about on the ground with considerable agility, supporting their heavy bodies 

 erect on their legs, like a land tortoise. 



There seems to be little doubt that this species is a vegetable-feeder, as I placed 

 in the vessel in which the specimens were kept quantities of the common pond 

 weeds of Calcutta, which they eat freely, and which I removed from their intestines 

 in large dark green masses, whilst the fish and prawns that were supplied to them 

 were never eaten. 



+ Batague. lineata, Gray. 



Emys dhor. Gray (pars), Syn. Rept., 1831, p. 20. 



Umi/s dentata, Gray, Syn. Rept., 1831, {vide errata), plates viii and ix, juv. ; 111. Ind. Zool., vol. ii, 



1834, tab. 58, fig. 1 only. 

 Fymys lineata, Gray, Syn. Rept., 1831, p. 23; Cat. Tort., B. M., 1844, p. 16; Dum. & Bib., Erpe't. 



Gdnl., t. ii, 1835, p. 335 (pars) ; Dumeril, Cat. Method. Col. Rept., 1851, p. U,pars. 

 Emi/s kacJmga, Gray, 111. Ind. Zool., vol. i, 1833, tab. 74. 

 Batagur iaska, Gray {pars), Cat. Shd. Rept., 1853, p. 35. 

 Bata-giir lineata, Gray, Cat. Sh. Rept., 1853, p. 33, pi. xvii ; Giinther, Proc. Zool. See, 1861, 



p. 214; Theobald, Journ. As. Soe., Bengal, vol. xxxvii, 1868, ex. No., p. 12. 

 Batagur dhongoka, Gray, Cat. Sh. Rept., 1855, p. 36 {pars), plate xxxvi, skull only. 

 Batagur tentoria. Gray {pars), Cat. Sh. Rept., 1855, p. 37 (specimen c.) 

 Batagur ellioti. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1862, p. 264; id., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1863, vol. xii, 



p. 75; Giinther, Rept. of Brit. Ind., 1863, p. 40, pi. iii, figs. A, Al. 

 Clemmys lineata, Strauch, Verth. der Schildkr., 1865, p. 87. 

 Clemmys ellioti, Strauch, Verth. der Schildkr., 1865, p. 88. 

 Kachuga hardwickii. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1869, p. 202. 

 Kachuga lineata. Gray, Suppl. Cat. Sh. Rept., 1870, p. 56. 

 Kachuga dentata. Gray, Suppl. Cat. Sh. Rept., 1870, p. 56. 

 Batagur trilineata, Gray {pars), Suppl. Cat. Sh. Rept., 1«70, p. 55. 

 Bhongoka hardwickii. Gray, Suppl. Cat. Sh. Rept., 1870, p. 57 {pars) ; App. Cat. Sh. Rept., 1S72, 



p. \%,pars. 

 Batagur kachuga, Theobald, Descr. Cat. Rept., B. Ind., 1876, p. \^,pars. 



Dr. Gray, in his work entitled Synopsis Heptilkmn, published January 1831, 

 described this species under the name of Emys dhor (p. 20), and referred to the 

 lU. Ind. Zool. for a figure of the species. On looking over this last mentioned work, 

 it will be found that no Chelonian is figured under such a name. The explanation, 

 however, is to be found in the list of erraia appended to the first mentioned work 

 before the Index, in which we read, " p. 20, Hues 31 and 36, for dhor read dentata^ 

 Bearing this in mind, and turning to the Mst of Plates in the Syn. Eept., we find 

 two figures given of the species (Tables viii and ix) under its corrected name 

 Emys dentata. Eeferring again to the 111. Ind. Zool.,i we find three figures and 



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