Throat with round flat tubercles. Anterior surface of arm with large squarish scutes. Hinder side of thighs with large conical tubercles. Tail at least as long as the shell. Carapace and soft parts of adult olive-brown; plastron yellowish brown. Young more elegantly marked:—Upper surface of head and neck and carapace olive-brown, with a few dark brown dots on the crown and one in the centre of each costal scute; the edge of the carapace yellow; jaws yellow: a yellow black-edged streak on each side along the temple; sides and lower surface of neck and limbs whitish; upper surface of limbs blackish: plastron yellow, with a symmetrical black marking along the middle; tail blackish above, yellow with a black median line beneath.
Head and neck 3 inches, carapace 6, tail 6½.
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A rare tortoise, found in streams in Burma and Siam ; the specimens on record are mostly from Pegu and Tenasserim. It is also known from Southern China, where, according to Swinhoe (P.Z.S. 1870, p. 409), it occurs in the western parts of Kwangtung Province and in Kwangse.
