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Show 1870.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON INDIAN TORTOISES. 709 surface of the typical Batagurs. 2nd. A series of the Pangshura flaviventris of Gunther, from Delhi, where it is common ; but all the specimens, like the one we recently received from Cuttack from Mr. Day, have the sternum spotted, varied with black like the other species of the genus; the specimens only vary in some having the first vertebral more or less distinctly urn-shaped or contracted on tbe sides than others. 3rd. Two adult specimens of Pangshura smithii from Punjab, where it is abundant, which show the permanence of the characters assigned to this species. Besides these it contains two species which had hitherto not occurred to me :- 1. PANGSHURA SYLHETENSIS, Jerdon, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 1870, p. 69. Shell olive-brown, strongly and sharply dentated behind. The sides of the back shelving, but ventricose and with a central dorsal prominence. First vertebral plate five-sided, truncated behind, rather produced in front, with a blunt keel ending in a tubercle behind ; the second broadly hexangular ; the third elongate, narrowed Fig.l. Pangshura sylhetensis. |