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Rh behind in the adult; second vertebral shortest, broader than long, with straight posterior border; third vertebral considerably longer than broad, pointed behind, and forming a very narrow suture with the fourth, which tapers anteriorly and equals in length the first and second together; fifth vertebral not broader than fourth, pointed posteriorly. Plastron large, feebly angulate laterally, truncate anteriorly, angularly notched posteriorly; the longest median suture is that between the abdominals; suture between the gulars as long as or shorter than that between the humerals; suture between gulars and humerals forming a right angle; inguinal and axillary large. Carapace olive-brown, usually with a lighter streak along the keel; plastral shields dark brown with a broad yellow border.

Length of shell 7 inches.

Hab. Sylhet and Assam.


 * Emys (Pangshura) tectum, var. intermedia, Blanf. J.A.S.B. xxxix, 1870, pt. 2, p. 339, pl. xiv, and xlviii, 1879, p. 110.
 * Kachuga intermedia, Bouleng. Cat. Cliel. &c. p. 58.

Shell as in K. tectum, but second vertebral shield shortest and broader than long. Carapace brown; plastral shields black, with yellow anterior aud lateral margins. Head dull olive, paler below; a ferruginous spot behind the eye, and three others, less well marked, in a convex line on the occiput; limbs uniform olive.

Length of shell 4½ inches.

Hab. Hasdo river, Bilaspur, Central Provinces; Godávari.

This Tortoise is only known to me from Blanford's description.


 * Emys tecta, Gray, Syn. Rept. p. 23, pl. v; id. Ill. Ind. Zool. i, pl. lxxii.
 * Emys tentoria, Gray, P.Z.S. 1834, p. 54.
 * Pangshura tecta, Günth. Rept. B. I. p. 33; Theob. Cat. p. 13.
 * Pangshura tentoria, Günth. Rept. B. I. p. 34, pl. iv, figs. C, C'; Theob. Cat. p. 14.
 * Pangshura flaviventer, Günth. Rept. B. I. p. 35; Theob. Cat. p. 15.
 * Kachuga tectum, Bouleng. Cat. Chel. &c. p. 58.

Carapace elevated, tectiform, the keel ending in a nodosity on the third vertebral shield; posterior margin not or but very slightly serrated; nuchal shield small, square or trapezoidal; first vertebral very variable in shape, usually with straight lateral borders diverging forwards in the half -grown specimens, narrower in front and with sinuous lateral borders in the adult; second vertebral as long as or a little longer than second, frequently obtusely pointed behind; third vertebral pointed behind, in contact with the point of the very elongate fourth; fifth vertebral broader than the others. Plastron large, strongly angulated laterally in the young, truncate anteriorly, angularly notched posteriorly; proportions of