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base of claws ; four digits on hind foot with strong curved claws ; 
enlarged scutes on upper edge of hind leg and a few small ones 
on heel, none on sole ; two or three enlarged scutes above digits 
near ends; tail very short, without enlarged scales above or 
below ; skin on legs, body, and neck with minute tubercles, giving 
it a feel like sandpaper. 
Color in alcohol . — Above reddish rusty brown, darker on an- 
terior marginals; uniform reddish brown on plastron, darkest 
on bridge and on anterior part; head uniform dark brown, 
slightly lighter posteriorly; a narrow transverse yellow line 
crossing posterior part of head and continuing to posterior bor- 
der of ear ; upper part of neck dark ; lighter, more or less reddish 
brown on sides and underside of neck; legs dark above, lighter 
below. 
Measurements of Heosemys leytensis sp. nov. 
Total length, tip of snout to end of tail 
330 
Length of carapace 
210 
Width of carapace 
145 
Height of carapace 
70 
Length of plastron 
180 
Width of plastron 
115 
Length of head 
55 
Width of head 
42 
Depth of head 
3L 
Eye to ear 
15 
Eye to tip of snout 
13 
Variation . — A second specimen from the same locality is 
medium-sized and differs in a number of characters from the 
adult. A dim keel in posterior part of carapace ; distinct diag- 
onal grooves in upper part of costal shields, parallel to their 
sutures with vertebrals; all shields of carapace showing lines 
of growth ; carapace dimly serrate anteriorly, nuchal notch rather 
shallow; marginals bordering nuchal not extending anterior to 
nuchal more than half its length (in the adult they extend beyond 
the nuchal a distance about equal to its length) ; a distinct notch 
between supracaudals ; plastron similar to that of adult ; carapace 
brown; plastron yellow; top of head brown, dimly mottled in 
temporal region; two very distinct transverse yellow lines on 
sides of head which barely fail to meet dorsally, these lines 
continuing below ear; a yellow spot on each side of lower jaw. 
Length of carapace, 126 millimeters; of plastron, 118. 
Remarks . — Only these two specimens are known. Both are 
from the same locality in Leyte. The species can be readily 
