400 Mr. Bert on Two new Genera of Land Tortoises. 
Spec. 2. Kinixys Homeana. Tas. XVII. Fig. 2. 
Dorso posticè abrupté gibbo ; scuto marginali antico impari. 
Habitat in Africà occidentali. | 
Mus. nostr. et Brit. 
Testudo Homeana. Gray MS. in Mus. Br. 
This species very much resembles the former in all its general 
characters, not only of form but of marking: the outlines, how- 
ever, are more strongly marked, the general appearance ruder, 
and the shape more flattened and expanded. It is of a dull 
brown colour, with yellowish blotches along the sides, and the 
internal part of the marginal plates, where the head and extre- 
mities pass, of a rich deep red. "The gibbous projection of the 
back is so considerable as to form a right angle. The second, 
third and fourth vertebral scuta are very irregularly hexagonal, 
and the second and third costal as irregularly pentagonal, the 
sides of each figure being extremely unequal. The anterior 
marginal plates project to a greater extent than in K. castanea, 
and the whole of the marginal scuta are more horizontal and 
more expanded. They are 24 in number, having, in addition 
to those of the other species, a long, linear, pointed, single one 
between the first pair. The joint which renders the hinder 
part of the back moveable is similar in its structure and 
situation to that of K. castanea, but is even more strongly 
marked. The anterior part of the sternum does not project, 
as in that species, beyond the upper shell, nor is its bifid ex- 
tremity so long and pointed. 
Mr. Gray informs me, that the specimens which are in the 
British Museum came from Sierra Leone, and were collected by 
Lieut. M. C. Friend, R.N. He states, that according to that 
gentleman's account the back part moved considerably when 
the animal was alive. | 
Dimensions. 
