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shell is black, with a slight admixture of whitish underneath : in the young 

 the shell is black above, yellowish-white below, with black radiating 

 from the exterior hind corner of each plate. A common species along the 

 valley of the Tenasserim ; but an inhabitant of marshy jungles, rather 

 than of the river. 



E. platynota (?), Gray : var. ? Carapax only ; the plastron wanting. 

 Length 13 in., by 9 in. Above black, with yellow mesial ridge, which is 

 distinct, though not prominently developed : marginal ridge prominent ; 

 and below this the colour is bright yellow, handsomely rayed with black : 

 posterior marginal shields each terminating in an obtuse point, occasion- 

 ing the hind margin of the carapax to be deeply serrated : nuclei of 

 costal shields placed high, as near to the summit as the middle?* 



Cistudo dentata, Gray ; Cyclemys orbiculata, Bell ; &c. A specimen 

 of this was presented by Major Phayre from the Irawadi (p. 481, ante) j 

 another and small living example, since dead and mounted, by Capt. 

 Berdmore, from the Sitang river; and the shell of an adult, from the 

 Tenasserim, by Mr. Theobald : length of the last 8 in., breadth 6 in., and 

 height 3| in. 



Calotes mystaceus, D. and B. Upon minutest comparison of Burmese 

 with Cinghalese examples, we can detect not the slightest difference 

 between them. 



C. emma, Gray. This pretty species, distinguished by its post-orbita 

 spine, is subject to considerable variation of colour. In general, there is 

 a strongly marked broad white or rosy-white lateral band, continued from 

 the setting or of the head to that of the tail; which in some is inter- 

 rupted more or less, in others scarcely interrupted, by a series of 7 or 8 

 black transverse bands : sometimes the white longitudinal band is strongly 

 developed, whilst the black transverse bands are scarcely visible ; and vice 

 versa : and sometimes, again, neither is strongly marked. There is 

 always a black line through the eye, extending to the tympanum ; and in 

 general more or less black on the throat, especially in the adult males : 

 but familiar experience of the changes of colouring assumed by the com- 



* Geomyda tricauinata, nobis, n. s. A small land Terrapin from Central 

 India (Chaibasa). Shell 5£ by 3£ in ; obovate, broader posteriorly : of a dark 

 reddish-brown colour above, with three yellow longitudinal ridges, which are fiat 

 and obtuse j below pale dull-yellow. Claws long, stout, and considerably hooked. 

 Soles expanded, indication of terrene habits. Dorsal shields hexagonoid ; the third 

 and fourth broader than long ; the fifth approximating a triangular form, with 

 posterior base : nuclei of costal shields placed high, and traversed by the low 

 lateral ridge. 



