746 REPTILIA. 



the head of a tortoise all placed under one name, Emys dentata, said to have 

 come from Fatehgarh in the North-West Provinces of India. It is evident, how- 

 ever, that two distinct generic types are represented under the one generic and 

 specific name, and that the uppermost figure is a representation of the species first 

 figured in the Synopsis Reptilium, under the name of Umys dentata, and that the 

 other animal of which there are two figures, and one of its head, is a Cyclemys, with 

 its plastron separated from the carapace hy a soft pliahle interval as in that genus. 



Another tortoise was described^ under the name of Emys lineata, and again 

 the 111. Ind. Zool. was referred to, hut no species is there figured under such a 

 name, hut in the Catalogue of Tortoises,^ the information was supplied with regard 

 to this reference, and Emys lineata is found figured^ under the name of Emys 

 kachuga. 



In the first Catalogue of Tortoises,* one species named The DJior, was included 

 under the genus Cyclemys, and the specific term E. dhor or E. dentata applied to it, 

 and the two figures in the Syn. Rept., to which I have already referred, were quoted 

 with the description, as applicable to the species, and the figures of the two 

 generic types in the 111. Ind. Zool., were still considered as representing one and 

 the same animal. A specimen from Java presented by Mr. Bell is mentioned, and 

 this is probably one of the specimens figured at Tab. 58, Vol. II of the lU. Ind. 

 Zool. In the Syn. Eept., p. 20, it is stated that Emys dhor, afterwards corrected, 

 as I have said, to E. dentata, was " only known from three young specimens, " 

 one of which Dr. Gray received from Mr. BeU. It is not stated in the last 

 mentioned work from whence this young specimen was obtained, but in the 

 Catalogue referred to above, this information is supplied, and Java is given as the 

 habitat of the species, whereas, on the plate in the 111. Ind. Zool., Eatehgarh, in 

 the North-Western Provinces of India, is said to have been the source of the speci- 

 mens there figured. 



I have received from Mr. Andrew Anderson a specimen the exact equivalent 

 of fig. 1 of the 58 Tab., Vol. II, 111. Ind. Zool., from the very same locality, 

 Eatehgarh, and which agrees also in every particular with the tortoise first figured 

 under the name of E. dentata in the Synopsis Reptihum. It is therefore evident 

 that the term E. dentata is applicable to the Eatehgarh tortoise, and to the 

 Cyclemys from Java which was afterwards figured along with it. 



A further complication, however, arises, because the upper figure on Tab. 58 

 was afterwards regarded' as the young of Batagur basJca, but more recently 

 Dr. Gray pointed out" that the Emys dentata of his Syn. Eept., and of the 111. Ind. 

 Zool., is not the young of E. baska, hut is the same as was afterwards described 

 as E. ellioti from the Kistna river. 



' Syn. Eept., p. 23. 



" Cat. Tort., B. M., 1844, p. 16. 



" lU. Ind. Zool., vol. i, 1832, Tab. 74. 



' 1. c, p. 32. 



' Cat. Shd. Eept., 1855, p. 35. 



" Suppl. Cat. Shd. Eept,, 1870. 



