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8. Upper Alum Shales. 



9. Upper JNummulite Limestone with flints. 



10. Tertiary Miocene strata with the usual fossils. 



A . A. (a.) a fault occurs to the South, of which at the entrance of 

 the Pass the beds, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, are seen in reversed 

 order. The nummulite limestone and oolitic strata are much shat- 

 tered and compressed, the strata of the former being often remark- 

 ably contorted. 



Table No. X. 



Sketch of a slab of carboniferous limestone from Musahkhail in 

 the Salt Eange, containing Orthoceratites and Ceratites. 



Catalogue of Reptiles inhabiting the Peninsula of India. — By T. C. 

 Jeedon, Esq. Madras Medical Service. 



CHELONIA. 



Tarn. TESTUDINIDJS— or Land Tortoises. 

 Gen. TESTUDO. 

 Eore feet with 5 fingers, hind do. with 4 nails — Carapax of one 

 piece — Sternum fixed in front. 



Testudo actinodes, Bell. 

 Syn. T. stellata, Schw. and Gray — T. geometrica, Daud. and 

 Shaw — T. elegans, Schoepf. and Shaw — T. geometrica apud Hutton, 

 J. A. 8. VI. 689, and plate XXXVIIL— Kagnchwa, K.—Dasari, 

 Tambel, Teloog ; vulgo Adavi Moonigadoo, or Jungle deaf-fellow — 

 Indian Land Tortoise. 



This Tortoise is tolerably common in the low jungles of the Car- 

 natic, and I believe throughout the whole of the Peninsula. Length 

 of the shell of one about 6 inches.* 



* Capt. Tbos. Hutton gives much larger dimensions loc. cit. supra; and we have 

 a specimen which I picked up dead in a street of Calcutta, the length of carapax 

 of which (in a straight line) exceeds 12 inches. Three living specimens which I 

 received from Vizagapatam 5 or 6 years ago, certainly did not grow much in the 

 interim, and the carapax of one of these recently dead, and added to the Society's 

 museum, measures 8f in. It also inhabits Ceylon ; but not Lower Bengal. — E. B. 





