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North Cachar, where fine and large specimens were obtained by 

 Major Godwin-Austen, and from enquiries I made, it extends 

 still farther west to the Jaintia lulls. This gentleman has present- 

 ed some specimens to the Indian Museum, one of which measures 

 22 inches. This Tortoise, hitherto recorded from Burma, differs 

 from all other forms in the pectoral plates not meeting in the centre 

 of the plastrum. 



The same zealous naturalist also obtained a few shells of what 

 appears to be Pyxidea Moichotii, figured by Dr. G ii n t h e r, and 

 recorded as from Siam. He has presented specimens of this also *fco 

 the Indian Museum. 



Cyclemys dentata of B e 1 1, the prior name of which appears to be 

 JEmys dhorj G r a y* per Buchanan Hamilton's MS. name, and which 

 was afterwards called Emys dentata by Gray in Hardwicke's 

 HI. Ind. Zoology, must be added to the Indian Fauna. It is by no 

 means rare in the upper provinces. I first saw it at Delhi, where 

 it was called Dhad, (evidently a form of the same word as B. 

 Hamilton's), and afterwards at other places. 



Giinther has figured with Gray's MS. name, a Tortoise 

 as Cyclemys Oldhami from Burmah. Theobald says that the 

 very specimen figured was taken by himself, and is merely 

 an old specimen of orbiculata. It was 8 inches long, and the 

 figure in Giinther shows a more oval form than the largest 

 specimen in the Indian Muse um, and the vertebral plates differ 

 slightly. — I have quite recently obtained in the Sylhet district a 

 very fine specimen of a Cyclemys which is of a still more elongated 

 form, the sides being almost parallel, and, though differing in some 

 parts, much more resembles Giinther's figure than any specimens - 

 of true orliculata, the name of which, as given by Bell, announces its 

 very rounded form. This specimen is 15f inches long on a straight 

 line, and 10$ broad, by about 5^- in height. It is of an uniform 

 blackish colour above and below. 



It differs from G ii n t h e r ' s figure in being a more elongated oval 

 form, but agrees very nearly with the description, with the following 

 exceptions. The first two of the middle vertebral plates are difl 



* Described and figured in Gray's Synops. Kept, p. 20, pi. 8 and 9. A work 



not, in Calcutta, I believe. 



