TESTUDINIDJ3. 



R. 937. The epiplastrals, imperfect posteriorly ; from the Pliocene 



{Fig.) of the Siwalik Hills. The type; figured in woodcut 



fig. 15. Cautley Collection. Presented, 1840. 



Fig. 15. 



Testudo cautleyi. — Anterior extremity of the epiplastrals, viewed from the 

 dorsal aspect ; from the Pliocene of the Siwalik Hills. \. (From the 

 ' Rec. Geol. Surv. Ind.') 



R. 955. The thickened portion of the epiplastrals of a somewhat 

 smaller individual ; from the Siwalik Hills. The complete 

 anchylosis of the two component bones in this and the 

 preceding specimen indicates maturity. 



Cautley Collection. 



The following specimens indicate Tortoises agreeing more or less 

 nearly in relative size with this Species. 



22150 x. The proximal half of the left humerus ; from the Siwaliks 

 of Perim Island, Gulf of Cambay. This specimen is con 

 siderably smaller than the humerus of T. elephantina 

 figured in Giinther's ' Gigantic Land-Tortoises,' pi. xvi. 



Presented by Br. Beust, 1849. 



R. 951. The distal extremity of the right humerus of a smaller 

 Tortoise ; from the Siwaliks. Cautley Collection. 



R. 953. The proximal half of the right femur of a Tortoise of con- 

 siderably larger dimensions than the one to which the 

 humerus No. 22150 x pertained : from the Siwaliks. 



Cautley Collection 



Testudo punjabiensis, Lydekker, n. sp. 



About one fourth smaller than the existing T. elephantina, with 

 the epiplastrals much thickened, and produced anteriorly after the 

 manner of the existing T. emys (fig. 16, A), but apparently without 



