. Palaeontological memoirs and notes of H. Falconer, with a biographical sketch of the author . 1 and 2. Ee present the upper and tinder surfaces of the shell ofEv^ys tecta, a species of Tortoise still existing in India, but alsofound fossil in the Sewalik Hills. The specimen appears to bethe identical one described in Dr. Falconers memoir (page 382).It has been drawn by Mr. Dinkel from the original in the Bri-tish Museum (Cat. No. 39,837), one-third of the natural fossil specimen, apparently of the same species, isniunbered 17,435 in the Brit. Mus. Cat. Fig. 3. Is a diagrammatic
. Palaeontological memoirs and notes of H. Falconer, with a biographical sketch of the author . 1 and 2. Ee present the upper and tinder surfaces of the shell ofEv^ys tecta, a species of Tortoise still existing in India, but alsofound fossil in the Sewalik Hills. The specimen appears to bethe identical one described in Dr. Falconers memoir (page 382).It has been drawn by Mr. Dinkel from the original in the Bri-tish Museum (Cat. No. 39,837), one-third of the natural fossil specimen, apparently of the same species, isniunbered 17,435 in the Brit. Mus. Cat. Fig. 3. Is a diagrammatic view of the same specimen, endwise, to showthe roofed shape of the shell. Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7. Lower end of humerus, with articulating surface, ofVaranus Sivalensis, or fossil Monitor of the Sewalik Hills, two-thirds of the natural size. This specimen appears to be specimen itself, with drawings, was foimd thus designated inDr. Falconers handwriting in his private collection, and hasbeen deposited in the Palffioutological Gallery of the BritishMuseum. VOL. I. Toil Plate ?)^ Jigs i-i-cnr/s tecta. Varamis bivaLensis. EMYS TECTA. 385 amount of alar to marginal surface, there is tlie closestagreement between the fossil and the recent forms. Thepectoral scutes in the recent form are rectangular and oblongtransversely, and the abdominal scutes nearly square; theanterior edge of each makes a sweep forwards as it risesover the lateral keel, and then bends back to join on with thecorresponding marginal scute at an angle. In all thesethere is a very close agreement between the plastron of thefossil and of the recent form. The last point to be noticed concerns the interior of theshell. In the Land Tortoises and the genera allied to Eniysthe hyposternal pieces of the plastron give off, on either side,an apophysis which ascends on the inside of the third sterno-costal piece as far as the first rib, and acts as a b^-ace orbuttress
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