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Show 72 DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE TRIONYCHlDcE. [Jan. 7, Testudo granulata, Daudin, Rept. ii. p. 81, t. 19. f. 2; Shaw, Zool. iii. p. 68, t. 14. f. 1. Testudo granosa, Schcepf, Test. p. 1 27, t. 30 a, b. Trionyx coromandelicus, Geoffr. Ann. d. Mus. iv. p. 16, t. 5. f. 1. Trionyx granosus, Schweigg. Prod. p. 208; Wagl. Syst. Amphib. p. 134, t. 2. f. 2, 33 ; Gray, Illustr. Ind. Zool. ii. t. 64 ; Schlegel, Faun. Japon. p. 35, t. 5. f. 4 (not Cuvier). Cryptopus granosus, Dum. et Bibr. Erpe't. Gen. ii. p. 501. Emyda punctata, Grfyy, Syn. Rept. p. 50 ; Illustr. Ind. Zool. ii. t. 62 (young) ; Cat. Tort. B. M . p. 46 ; P. Z. S. 1855, p. 201 ; Cat. Sh. Rept. p. 63 • Suppl. p. 117 ; Tort. Terrap. & Turt. t.; Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1872, x. p. 340. Emyda granosa, Theobald, Journ. Linn. Soc. 1868, x. p. 18. Emyda vittata, Peters, Monatsb. 1854, p. 216. Emyda scutata, Peters, Monatsb. 1868, p. 440; Gray, Suppl. Cat. Sh. Rept. p. 117. Potamochelys stellata, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 85, figs. 7 & 8 (skull only); Suppl. Cat. Sh. Rept. p. 105, f. 34 (skull only). General Hardwicke figures a spotted example of this species from life, which is copied as T. punctata, junior, Gray, Illustr. Ind. Zool. tab. His drawings also contain the figure of a much larger specimen from Futtehghur, which he says is " Bungoma," the country name for the land Tortoise commonly called Terrapin. Back uniformly olive-green, upper part of head, neck, and limbs green, with two pale orange spots on each side of the crown of the head. Lower side with sternal callosities well developed. These figures are copied in m y Illustr. Ind. Zool. under the name of Trionyx granosus. It seems to be a very generally distributed animal in all parts of India ; and the size of the tubercular plates on the sternum increases and alters in shape with age ; and the Tortoise varies considerably in colour, both from age and also, perhaps, from other causes. 2. EMYDA CEYLONENSIS. Caudal callosities angular, parallel; inner edge straight. Trionyx granosus, Cuvier, Oss. Foss. v. p. 206, t. 12. f. 47. Emyda ceylonensis, Gray, Cat. Sh. Rept. p. 64, t. 29a; P. Z. S. 1855, p. 201, 1864, p. 98; Suppl. Cat. Sh. Rept. p. 117. Hab. Ceylon. Dr. Peters, in the Monatsb. 1854, p. 216, describes an Emyda vittata, and in 1868, p. 440, of the same work, describes an Emyda scutata. I had thought that the former was the same as my Ewyda ceylonensis ; but in a letter which Dr. Peters wrote to m e (on the 26th February, 1871), he observes, " m y Emyda vittata is quite different from Emyda ceylonensis, having the abdominal plates much smaller, and being in this respect more like Emyda punctata. My E. scutata, on the contrary, more resembles E. ceylonensis." Dr. Kelaart describes the Ceylonese species as marked with indistinct brown stripes on the back and head, characters which Dr. Peters gave to E. vittata. |