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Show 1899.] REPTILES OF THE MALAY PENINSULA AND SIAM. 615 phila, Schizcea, Tacca cristata, Gnetum, Nepenthes, Begonia, Eurycoma, and others, which at Pinang appear to affect a much greater elevation. Instances of reptiles in common to the plains of Singapore and the hills of Pinang are:-Ptychozoon homalocephalum, Gymnodactylus pulchellus, Lygosoma chalcides, Pilidion lineatum, Typhlops nigro-albus, Calamaria lumbricoidea, var., Leptophis caudalineatus, Elaps intestinalis, E. nigromaculatus." Dr. Hanitsch (Rep. Raffles Libr. & Mus. 1897, p. 9) records this species from Ulu Legeh. Habits. Lives day and night in the water and feeds on fruit and vegetables. Size. A fine specimen from Government Hill, Penang, with a remarkably depressed carapace measures :- Length of carapace following curve .... 198 m m. Breadth „ „ „ .... 190 „ Hab. Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo (I met this species at Sandakan and Brunei). 13. GEOEMYDA GRANDIS Gray. Geoemyda grandis, Blgr. Cat. Chel. etc. p. 138. Localities. This grand Tortoise was originally described from specimens from Pachebone (Siam) and Cambodia collected by M . Mouhot; since then it has been recorded from Burma, and now three States in the Malay Peninsula can be added. 1st, Penang. On visiting the Ayer Etam Tortoise Temple in April 1898, we saw many of these fine tortoises there, said to have been caught on the island. 2nd, Province Welles!ey. In the same month Mr. Bowen, Sheriff of Penang, when on a shooting expedition in the Province, caught a tortoise which be kindly gave me, which proved to belong to this species. 3rd, Kedah. In M a y and June 1898 I found it very numerous in the neighbourhood of Alor Star, living in ponds, ditches, and flooded paddy-fields. I have not seen it wild near Bangkok, but a very large water-tortoise which is kept in some old palace and temple tanks (together with the species, apparently Callagur picta, mentioned above) probably is Geoemyda grandis, but these old individuals are so covered with a thick slimy green vegetable growth that they are difficult to identify. The " sacred " tortoise I saw at Ayuthia, mentioned above, also apparently belongs to this species, as does a carapace I picked up in the bed of a dried-up pond at Pachim, on the Bangpakong River, in March 1897. Dr. Hanitsch (Rep. Raffles Libr. & Mus. 1897, p. 9) records Geoemyda grandis from two localities in the Malay Peninsula • the specimens, which he kindly allowed me to examine when passing through Singapore, are, however, in one case Bellia crassicollis, and in the other Cyclemys platynota. Habits. Freshwater tortoises, but active when walking on 40* |