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Show |.,1 DR. J. ANDERSON ON INDIAN REPTILES. [Feb. 21, BATAGUR ELLIOTTI, Gray ; Gthr. /. c. p. 40. A specimen from the Jumna River, Agra, agrees in every particular with this species. It is immature, and the sternum is only imperfectly joined to the carapace. Length 3" 9'". TRIONYX PHAYREI, Theobald, Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. x. (1868) p. 18. Trionyx jeudi, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 217, fig. 19, ct Suppl. Cat. Shield Rept. B.M. 1870, part 1, p. 97, fig 32. Sternum of Trionyx phayrei. I have lately received a specimen of this fine species from Penang. It measures along the curve of the carapace 27" 6'" ; osseous portion of carapace 19" 6'". Breadth in middle 22" 3'"; osseous portion at same point 20" 6'". Sternum, length of osseous portion 21" 6'". Greatest breadth of abdominal plates 21". Seven osseous plates, of which five are visible and granular ; the anterior pair long and linear, 5" 9'" x 1", in contact behind, divergent anteriorly. Odd osseous plate semicircular, 7" 5'" along the curve, 1" 3'" in diameter in the mesial line; anteriorly in contact with the anterior pair, and posteriorly with the abdominal ones. Greatest length of abdominal plates 8" ; they enclose an hour-glass-shaped cartilaginous area, the anterior portion being the largest, and measuring 4" 3'" in diameter and 6" 8'" in length from the posterior contraction to the odd plate. |