398 Mr. BELL on two new Genera of Land Tortoises. - 
cows Genus. KINIXYS. 
Pedes subclavati. - TR | à 
Testa expansa, subdepressa. - | 
Dorsi pars posterior mobilis. 
Spec. 1. Kinixys casTANEA. Tas. XVII. Fig. 1. 
Sterno anticè ultra testam superiorem prominente ; scutis margi- 
. nalibus 23. 
Habitat in Africa. 
|o Munie — eee COD es 
| — DESCRIPTION. -. Head rather long, somewhat depressed. Feet 
. -= compressed, less clavated, and the toes more distinct than 
-in the other species of the family. Shell of a rich chestnut- 
brown colour, the older specimens having patches of yellow 
principally towards the lower margin of the costal scuta ; 
broad-ovate, rounded and gibbous posteriorly, the anterior 
and posterior margins projecting and somewhat reflected : 
the marginal outline deeply denticulated. Dorsal scuta 
strongly marked with concentric striæ, and a raised line 
in the direction of each angle, radiating from the area: 
the vertebral scuta slightly carinated ; the first pentagonal, 
the anterior angle acute, the area having a sharp ridge ; 
the second, third, and fourth hexagonal; the fifth gibbous, 
quadrangular, the base very broad, and forming the seg- 
ment of a circle: the first costal scutum trapezoidal, elon- 
gated, the inferior margin rounded ; the second and third 
pentagonal; the fourth trapezoidal.. Marginal scuta 93 ; 
viz. 11 pairs, and a posterior single one ; the anterior ones 
urned up at the areæ, which are marginal, and have some- 
the appearance of being eroded ; the lateral and pos- 
r hollowed; the margin raised, projecting, and with the 
 arew reflected. The moveable hinge or joint commences 
EIN ! | immediately 
