Descriptive catalogue of the reptiles of British India / by William Theobald.
- William Theobald
- Date:
- 1876
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Descriptive catalogue of the reptiles of British India / by William Theobald. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![on the sides which just invade the masticating area of tlie jaw. In large individuals the lunate bone of the sternum is granular like the other plates, a character noticed by neither Gunther or Gray, but present in a greater or less degree in old animals. Grows to probably 150 lbs. Inhabits Bengal and the North-Western Provinces. Cantor says also ‘ Pinang,’ but I have been unable to verify its occurrence in Burmah, though from Cantors observing it to the south, I included it in my catalogue of Burmese Reptiles, and if Cantor was not mistaken, it no doubt must occur in the intermediate Burmese Provinces. T. ocellatus. Gray. 111. Ind. Zool. T. Buchanani, Th. Pro. As. Soc., Bengal, March 1874, p. 78. T. Jiurum auct. in part. T. hurum B. IL, apud Anderson, Annals, and Mag., N. H., 1872, Vol. IX., p. 382. Kdla kachim of the Bengali fishermen. Skull more elongate or taper than in Gangeticus, with the mandible almost spatulate in front, and traversed inside bj^ a median groove very strongly marked. Young handsomely eyed, and the species at all ages is marked by the transverse yellow bar across the nose in front of the eyes, and by conspicuous yellow spots on the gape and temples. General colour “ green, darker on the occiput, where it is mottled with paler. Throat and neck plumbeous white. Eyelids red.” Cartilaginous ]:»ortion of carapace almost devoid of tubercles, save 3 or 4 indistinct ones behind. Osseous pittings of the sternal bones coarser than in Gangeticus, and tlie lateral plates more bent than is usually seen in other species. The above description was furnished me from life by A. Anderson, Esq. of Futtehgarh ; the shell being figured by me in Proc. As. Soc., Bengal, 1875. T. sewaare, Buch. Ham. (Young), Gray. P. Z. S., 1873, p. 50. T. chJdm, Bach. Ham. (adult ?). Young animals closely resemble ocellatus, but have no yellow band across the snout, and the face is sliorter, and the profile more like Gangeticus.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28058215_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
