OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



JULY, 1847. 



CATALOGUE OF REPTILES 



Inhabiting the Malayan Peninsula and Islands, 



Collected or observed by Theodore Cantor, Esq. M. D., Bengal 



Medical Service. 



[Localities printed in Italics signify those from whence the animals of the Catalogue 

 were obtained ; in ordinary type those previously given by authors. The descriptions are 

 in most cases taken from life ; in the few in which it is expressly noted, shortly after death ; 

 in none from specimens preserved in spirits of wine.] 



CHELONIA. 

 FAM. ELODID^l, OR MARSH-TORTOISES, Dum. and Bibr. 

 Sub-Fam. Cryptoderin^e, Bum. and Bibr. 

 Gen. Geoemyda, Gray. 

 Head covered with thin continued skin ; chin not bearded. Legs 

 strong, not fringed behind. Toes 5-4, strong, short, free, covered 

 above by a series of shields ; claws short. Tail tapering ; shell depress- 

 ed, three-keeled; hinder edge strongly toothed. Sternum solid, 

 broad truncated before, notched behind ; gular plate linear, band-like, 

 small ; axillary and inguinal plates small. 



Geoemyda spinosa, (Bell.) 



Syn. — Emys spinosa, Bell apud Dum. and Bibr. 

 Emys bispinosa, Schlegel. 

 Testudo emys, Miiller ? 

 Geoemyda spinosa, Gray. 



Shell oblong, subquadrate, keeled, flattened above, chestnut coloured, 

 front and hinder edge strongly serrated ; vertebral plates broad, first 

 suburceolate ; costal plates with a posterior, subsuperior areola, with a 

 slight subconic tubercle ; beneath yellow, brown rayed ; young depress- 

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