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Show 1873.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE TRIONYCHID.E. 67 * Head and forehead with radiating black lines. 1. A S P I L U S G A T A G H O L . The Gataghol. Testudo gataghol, B. Hamilton, icon. ined. Trionyx javanicus, Gray, Illustr. Ind. Zool. tab. (copied from Hamilton). Aspilus gataghol, Gray, Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. 1873. Hab. India. I have never seen a specimen of this species, but describe it on the authority of Dr. Hamilton's drawing. The black radiations on the head are very like the rays on the head of T. gangeticus ; but the original drawing and the copy in the ' Illustrations' show only two very narrow lateral callosities, which are characteristic of the genus Aspilus. ** Head white-spotted. 2. A S P I L U S J A V A N I C U S . The Boulousse. (Fig. 13.) Amyda javanica, Schweigger's MSS., quoted by Geoffroy. Trionyx javanicus, Trionyx de Java, Geoff., Ann. d. Mus. vol.iv. p. 15, tab. iv. fig. 2. Trionyx cariniferus, Gray, Cat. Sh. Rept. B. M . p, 67, t. 32 (from spirit). Aspilus cariniferus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 84, figs. 4-6 (skull), 1869, p. 213 ; Gray, Suppl. Cat. Sh. Rept. p. 101, fig. 33 (skull). Aspidonectes javanica, Wagler, Amphib. Atlas, tab. 2. figs. 3-13 (fig. 3 copied from Geoffroy). Gymnopus javanicus, Dumer. et Bibr., Erpet. Gen. ii. p. 493. Hab. Java. Fig. 13. Aspilus javanicus. Schlegel, in the ' Fauna Japonica' (tab. v. fig. 6), figures the head of a Mud-tortoise under the name Trionyx stellatus, var. javanicus which is mottled above and below; it probably represents this species. |