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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![The adult (if the ‘ Chhlm' ofBuch. Ham.) is rich olive brown uniformly spotted with small equal and equidistant lenticular spots, with their long axes arranged more or less longitudinally. Two yellow ragged blotches on the temples, but no band before the eyes. Inhabits the Ganges. T. stellatus, var Javanicus, Geoffrey, S. H. Siebold, Fauna Japonica, Chel., Tab. 5, f. 6. Theobald, Proc. As. Soc., Bengal, March 1874, p. 79, pi. 3. T. Javanicus 8chiu.,u])\id Gunther in part not of Gray. T. huTum, Gray. An. Mag., N. H., 1872, p. 366 as T. Phayrei. ' Leikhivaif of the Birmese. Head taper, mandible, inside furnished with a median ridge. Head and neck grey, profusely yellow mottled. Shell brown with vermiculate markings in the young. The specimen figured by me, 1. c., was taken at Moulmein. Inhabits Pegu, Tenasserim, and Java. T. Phayrei, Th., Jour., Lin. Soc., ZooL, Yol. X, 1868. T. ca.rniferus, Gray. Cat. S. R., p. 67, pi. 32 not Asiyilus cariniferus, Gray. Sup. Cat., S. R., p. 102, f. 33. T. cariniferus, Th. Pro. As. Soc., Bengal, March 1874, p. 80, pi. 4. T. Jeudi, Gray. P. Z. S., 1869, p. 217. T. formosus, Gray. P. Z. S., 1869, p. 217. (?) T. Phayrei, Th. apud Anderson. P. Z. S., 1871, p. 154. ‘ Leik-heyiuoon’ of the Birmese. Skull of the general form of Gangeticus. Sternum excessively cartilaginous, the odd osseous plate being only well develojied in aged individuals, vide Anderson, f. 1. c. The T. fo7'‘mosus of Gray is not improbably the ocellated livery of this species. Adults brown handsomely vermiculately marked, very much in the style of Ch/itra. Grows to over 24 inches in a straight line. Inhabits the Irawadi, Tenasserim, and the Malayan Peninsula.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28058215_0046.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
