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tinctly longer than broad, whilst Gr ii n t h e r says " the three middle 

 vertebral plates as long as Iroad" which applies exactly only to 

 the third in the series. The postgulars are shorter, the suture be- 

 tween them not being nearly so long as the postgulars ; the pec- 

 torals are not nearly so long as the abdominals, and the suture be- 

 tween them is not so much arched as in Grunther's figure ; the 

 preanals are little shorter than the abdominals ; the anals are 

 rather longer than broad, and bluntly pointed behind, whilst in 

 two specimens noted by Dr. Gr ii n t h e r, they are as broad as long 

 in one, and broader in the other. On the whole I do not consider 

 that the differences here noticed suffice for specific separation 

 from C. Oldhami as described by Gf ii n t h e r, but the whole aspect 

 and structure of the shell appears to point out a difference from 

 C. dlior or C. orbiculata. However, till young specimens of various 

 ages from the same localities are obtained, no satisfactory conclu- 

 sion can be arrived at. Dr. Gr ii n t h e r entirely ignores G. dhor, or 

 orbiadata, as a species of British India, and therefore does not point 

 out the differences from that species which his adoption of Gr r a y ' s 

 MS. name of Oldhami would imply him to believe in. 



The margin of Geoemgda carinata, Blyth, is entire behind. The 

 type specimen so completely resembles the figure of PJmgs Pelangeri, 

 Lesson, figured in B e 1 a n g. ' s voyage (Rept. pi. 1), that I am 

 constrained to believe them identical. This figure has been hitherto 

 usually assigned as a synonym of JEmys trijuga ; the original was said 

 to have been taken near Calcutta, which Blyth doubted, never 

 having seen that species in lower Bengal, though it abounds in 

 Southern India and Burma. The figure, if intended for JE. trijuga, is 

 certainly, as Gr ii n t h e r remarks, not good ; but on the contrary it is 

 a very fair representation of B 1 y t h ' s species, and as such I 

 shall accordingly consider it, and note in my Reptiles of India. 



Pangshura Sylhetensis, n. sp. 



I lately procured from the stream that runs from the Terria Ghat 

 at the foot of the Khasi hills several specimens of a new tortoise 

 closely resembling P. tecta, but differing in the following points. The 

 posterior margin of the shell is very strongly serrated, this 

 effect being added to by a division of the hinder marginal plates ; 



