Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal . ls—Carapax of onepiece—Sternum fixed in front. Testudo actinodes, T. stellata, Schw. and Gray—T. geometrica, Daud. andShaw—T. elegans, Schoepf. and Shaw—T. geometrica apud Hutton,J. A. 8. VI. 689, and plate XXXVIIL—Kagnchwa, K.—Dasari,Tambel, Teloog; vulgo Adavi Moonigadoo, or Jungle deaf-fellow—Indian Land Tortoise. This Tortoise is tolerably common in the low jungles of the Car-natic, and I believe throughout the whole of the Peninsula. Lengthof the shell of one about 6 inches.* * Capt. Tbos. Hutton gives much larger dimensions loc. cit. supra
Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal . ls—Carapax of onepiece—Sternum fixed in front. Testudo actinodes, T. stellata, Schw. and Gray—T. geometrica, Daud. andShaw—T. elegans, Schoepf. and Shaw—T. geometrica apud Hutton,J. A. 8. VI. 689, and plate XXXVIIL—Kagnchwa, K.—Dasari,Tambel, Teloog; vulgo Adavi Moonigadoo, or Jungle deaf-fellow—Indian Land Tortoise. This Tortoise is tolerably common in the low jungles of the Car-natic, and I believe throughout the whole of the Peninsula. Lengthof the shell of one about 6 inches.* * Capt. Tbos. Hutton gives much larger dimensions loc. cit. supra; and we havea specimen which I picked up dead in a street of Calcutta, the length of carapaxof which (in a straight line) exceeds 12 inches. Three living specimens which Ireceived from Vizagapatam 5 or 6 years ago, certainly did not grow much in theinterim, and the carapax of one of these recently dead, and added to the Societysmuseum, measures 8f in. It also inhabits Ceylon ; but not Lower Bengal.—E. B. TABLE N° 1i 0) CI a. AT I T 3E WISS S IE a ATB T H 2A SLAB OF CARBONIFEROUS LIMESTONE FROM MOOSAKHAIL IN THE SALT TVJSJAUB. March .... ISSZ. f^.^ 1853.] Catalogue of Reptiles inhabiting the Peninsula of India. 463 Earn. ELODnLE—or Marsh EMYS.*Emys tbijuga, Schw. Syn. E. Belangeri, Lesson—Goonta, Tambel, Tel. Carapax olive or brown, three-keeled, edges smooth. By no means common in the south of India, and chiefly to befound in deep tanks and large Length of shell of one 8 inches. [Col. Sykes procured another Emys in the Bombay Dukhun, , Gray, P. Z. S. 1834, p. 54, and the supposed adult of Hardwickes Illustrations. The Societys museumcontains an adult procured by Sir A. Burnes in Sindh, and we havealso a young specimen from the river Hughly. The species is mostnearly affined to E. tectum, Bell, and has the same peculiar form ofthe fifth vertebral plate ; but the fourth is quadrilateral and elongat
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