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Art. XLIV. Descriptions of three nezo Species of Land 

 Tortoises; 5y Thomas Bell, Esq.^ F,L,S,, F.G.S, 



Ordo. Testudinata. Merrem. 

 Fam. TESTUDiNiDiE. nobis. 

 Gen. Testudo. Auct. 



AcTiNODEs. T. scutis dorsalibus elevatis, nigris, luieo radiatis : 

 scuto antico marginali impart nullo. 



Habitat in Africa. Mus. nostr. 

 Tab. Suppl. XXIII. 



Description. Head large, thick, black with yellow spots. Fore 

 feet furnished anteriourly with numerous, large, black and yellow 

 scales. The thighs with a few similar ones, but larger and of a 

 conical form. Tail short, tuberculated. Shell elevated, ovate, 

 the margin anteriourly notched, posteriourly denticulated. The 

 whole of the scuta sulcated, black with regular yellow radiations, 

 and with large yellow areolae. The dorsal scuta, especially the 

 vertebral, elevated, somewhat conical, and slightly turned back- 

 wards. Marginal scuta xxiii, viz. : eleven pairs, and a posteriour 

 single one. The nine posteriour projecting and acuminated, thus 

 forming a deeply serrated outline. The last marginal plate very 

 broad, nearly vertical, but slightly incurved. Sternum yellow with 

 distinct black radiations passing from the areola of each plate to 

 its circumference; anteriourly bifid, posteriourly with a deep 

 lunate emargination. 



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