1880.] 



Tlitifori/ of 111 c Fossil Vertelratci of India. 



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Tlicobakl* under the name of B. sivalensis. This species, according to 

 Mr. Theobald, is very closely allied to B. crassicolHs, which, according to 

 the same write]', f inhabits Tenasserim, Siam, and Sumatra. The other 

 living species fl). jiwcArtZis) inhabits Java. Another carapace of a Siwalik 

 emydine, in the Indian Museum, seems to belong to a second species of 

 Bellia. In labels on the casts of Siwalik fossils from the British Museum^ 

 a three-ridged carapace of an emydine bears the name of JEmys liamiltonoides 

 (Falc. and Caut.) : this name was doubtless given from the resemblance of this 

 carapace to that of the living Damonia {Emys) luimiJtonii, now inhabiting 

 Lower Bengal : the generic name of the fossil should probably he Damonia. 

 An imperfect carapace, collected by Mr. Theobald in the Siwaliks of the 

 Punjab, and now in the collection of the Indian Museum, seems to belong 

 to Eniijs proper. Mr. Theobald has lately described,]: under the 

 name of Cautlcija ammliger, a gigantic Siwalik emydine, from the evi- 

 dence of a single marginal bone ; the genus is said to be distinguished 

 from all other emydines by the cartilaginous, in place of osseous, union 

 of the marginal with the adjoining bones. In the family Bata- 

 (juridce, Br. Falconer determined the identity of a Siwalik emydine with 

 Pungshura (^Emys) tectum of- Bell§ ; subsecpiently, the species was 

 shown bj' Br. Stoliczkaj] to occur in the newer Narbada deposits also: 

 Panyshura tectum now inhabits Lower Bengal. Of the genus Batagur, a 

 part of a plastron irom the Narbada has been thought by Br. Stoliczkaj 

 to belong very probably to B. dJiongoha, now found living in the Narbada. 

 Eemains of a large Batagur, from the Siwaliks, are contained in the collec- 

 tion of the Indian Museum, but have not yet been si^eoifically determined. 

 A small carajiace, M'ith a ridge on the vertebral plates, lately presented by the 

 liiirki Museum to the Indian Museum, very probably belongs also to Batagur. 

 Of the soft-shelled river-tortoises, a Trionyx from the Narbada has been 

 thought by Br. Stoliczka** to be not improbably identical with the living 

 T. gangeticus. Plates of an undetermined Trionyx have been obtained in 

 considerable numbers from the Sub-Himalayan Siwaliks, and from those of 

 Burma and Perini Island A carapace of anMmyda in the British Museum, 

 from the Siwaliks, has been identified by Br. Gray with the living Binyda 

 vittuta (ceyloncnsis, Gray). This S2)ecies, according to Mr. Theobald, inha- 



* R. G. S. I. Vol. X, p. 43. 

 t Catalogue of Ecptilcs of India, p. 10. 

 t 11. G. S. I. Vol. XII, p. 18G. 

 § Pal. Mom. Vol. I, p. 382. 

 II R. G. S. I. Vol 1 1, p. 39. 

 f Loc (at. 

 ** Loc. c-it. 



