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R. 943. A terminal phalangeal. Cauiley Collection. 



R. 944. A terminal phalangeal. Apparently belongs to the fifth 

 digit of the left manus. Cauiley Collection. 



36729-30. Two dermal scutes of the limbs. Cautley Collection. 



Testudo, sp. 



The undermentioned epiplastrals, which indicate a tortoise nearly 

 as large as T. atlas, are distinguished from the corresponding bones 

 of the latter by their relatively thinner cornua and the absence of 

 the ventral carina. The nuchal, No. R. 882, indicates a species 

 distinguished from T. atlas by the presence of a nuchal shield ; and 

 since that specimen agrees in relative size with the epiplastrals, it 

 might well belong to the same form. If this should prove to be 

 the case, we should have decisive evidence that the undermentioned 

 epiplastrals are not referable to female individuals of T. atlas. The 

 nuchal would appear to be too large to be referable to T. cauileyi. 



Hab. India (Siwalik Hills). 



The following specimens are from the Pliocene of the Siivalik Hills. 



R. 930. The imperfect epiplastral cornua, probably referable to an 

 adult male. Nearly the whole of the right cornu and 

 the extremity and posterior border of the left one are 

 broken away. When entire the cornu must have been 

 larger and more divergent than in any of the specimens 

 referred to T. atlas, and the absence of the inferior carina 

 is well shown. A specimen of nearly equal size, but with 

 less developed cornua, is figured by the writer in the 

 ' Palaeontologia Indica/ ser. 10, vol. iii. pi. xviii. fig. 4. 



Cautley Collection. Presented, 1840. 



R. 931. The imperfect epiplastral cornua. This specimen, in which 

 a large part of the right cornu remains, is of the same 

 general type as the preceding, but the cornu is even more 

 expanded, its characteristic thinness being well shown. 



Cautley Collection. 



R. 932. An imperfect bone which appears to be part of the epiplas- 

 tral cornua of the same type as the preceding. 



Cautley Collection. 



R. 928. The imperfect epiplastral. These specimens, in which the 

 cornua are very slightly developed, are probably referable 



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