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transversely banded with about 75 bands in all, the black of the 

 back descending and the yellowish-white of the lower parts ascend- 

 ing alternately, and the former continued irregularly across the 

 lower-parts where the two colours are about equally distributed. 

 Head black, irregularly variegated with yellowish-white ; the rostral 

 and labials of the latter hue, and all except the last three inferior 

 labials having a medial black spot. Most of the shields of the chin 

 and throat are also thus spotted. Scutse 200 ; scutellse 37 pairs. 

 Length of specimen 4 ft., of which tail 4 in. Head If in. in great- 

 est breadth. 



H. parviceps, nobis. Form moderately thick, attenuating towards 

 the head, which is small and not broader than the neck ; body 

 covered with 19 rows of smooth shining imbricated scales, which 

 on the sides are much broader than upon the back ; tail with only 8 

 rows of hexagonal scales besides the scutellse. Two anterior fron- 

 tals, half the size of the posterior. Teeth minute. Colour black 

 above, yellowish-white beneath, the latter extending over 2-| rows 

 of scales on either side. Three yellowish-white dorsal stripes, one 

 median extending from the occiput to the middle of the tail, the 

 others lateral and occupying part of the 5th and 6th rows of scales. 

 On the lower parts, also, two lines are formed of broad black spots, 

 one on either side of each scuta, and along the middle of the body 

 is a third and median row. The shields of the head are margined 

 and variegated with yellowish-white, and each labial except the 

 posterior three lower are whitish having a large black spot. Scutse 

 161 ; scutellae 45. Length of specimen 2i ft., of which tail 5| in. 



Addenda. Since the former part of the foregoing paper was 

 published, the author has had an opportunity of shewing the So- 

 ciety's specimens of Burmese Tortoises to the Eev. J. Mason of 

 Maulmein, who has long devoted considerable attention to the zoo- 

 logy of the Tenasserim provinces. This gentleman immediately 

 recognised the Testudo megaloptjs {J. A. S. XXII, 640,) as the 

 species with which he was most familiar in Burma : at once distin : 

 guishing it from the Indian T. stellata : and as his judgment is 

 worthy of confidence, we may pretty safely now rank T. megalopus 

 as a third Burmese species of the genus. 



