404 ' NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXII. 1915. 



adult. It shows traces of growth between the scutes, but this must not be taken 

 as a sign of immaturity, as my very large c? Testiido clarwini, which is at least 

 a hundred years old, was growing between the scutes to the day of his deatli. This 

 ? can at once be distinguished from ? S of ephippitim by the much more com- 

 pressed front third of carapace and the more strongly everted secimd and third 

 pairs of marginals. From my ? of Testudo becki it differs much, as that, uidike 

 the ? of becki in the California Academy of Sciences' Museum, is of the broader, 

 more dome-shaped tj'pe of which there is one S at Triug and one at San Francisco. 



Testudo becki Rothsch. 



Testudo becki Rothschild, Xov. Zool. viii. p. 372 (1901) (Cape Berkeley). 



The type was taken by R. H. Beck early in 1901 at (Jape Berkeley, North 

 Albemarle, and, though large, is a fairly young individual. 



The four other S S and the ? were taken at Banks Bay, North Albemarle, 

 early in 1902 by Beck. The fifth c? obtained on that occasion is now in the Peabody 

 Museum, Salem, Mass. 



The ? is the least saddle-backed of any of the fourteen known specimens of 

 this race, and resembles much T. galapagoensis. The five c^cj in the Tring 

 Mnseam are mounted, but the ? is not. 



Testudo ephippium Giinth. 



Testudo ephippium Gunther, Trans. Roy. Sue. Lnml, clxv. p. 271, pis. 34, .35f. B, 37 f. c, 381 c, 

 39 f . c, 42 f . B, 44 f. B, 45 f . B. (1875) (?). 



Of the twenty-six specimens in the Tring Museum, Nos. 92 and 96 were 

 collected by Dr. Banr, and the rest by the Webster-Harris expedition, the Leland 

 Stanford (Heller and Snodgrass) expedition, the Johnson-Green expedition, the 

 Captain Noyes second expedition, and by Mr. R. H. Beck. Of the twenty-nine 

 original ones got by the Webster-Harris expedition, two are in the Britisii Museum, 

 two in the Vienna Museum, and several were exchanged with other museums and 

 institutions. Of the eight collected by Ur. Baur, four only came to the Tring 

 Mnseum, and of these two are now in the British Museum. The small 2:?-inch cJ, 

 which is still living, was one of the fonr collected by ("aptain Noyes in 1900, and 

 therefore has lived fifteen years in England — a record, I believe, for any Giant 

 Tortoise. 



Nos. 11 to 23 are unmounted, the rest mounted. One S is mounted on plaster 

 carapace, and the skeleton mounted comjileto. 



Testudo galapagoensis Baur 

 (Plates XXIII. — XXVIII.) 

 Testudo galripagoensis Baur, Amer. Nat. xxiii. p. 1044 (1889 [1890]) (Charles Liland). 



The two specimens in the Tring Museum were formerly the property of the 

 Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass., and were lent to me for study. They were deposited 

 in the British Museum, and were in the care of Charles Barlow, mason. Owing to 

 his long illness and death, together witli the retirement of Dr. Gllnther, tliey got 

 mislaid, and could not be found when the Peabody Mnseum Trustees requested 

 their return. I replaced them by mounted specimens of Test/tr/o becki tj, and 

 T.microphyes <S. Subsequently, on going through some old packing-cases. Barlow's 

 son fonud the two tortoises. No. 39 is a complete carajiace of an old J ; No. 40 

 has the plastron and portions of the plastral-bridges wanting. Tlie large living 



