406 NOVITATKS ZOOLOGICAE XXll. 11115. 



sknll of a Testiulo vicina from Old Cobos Settlement (No. 61), measuring 8-25 inches 

 from front edge above nasal opening to end of occipital spine, only weighs 9 onnces. 

 The ? was exchanged with the California Academ}- of Sciences, and is the 

 No. 8105 of Dr. Van Denbnrgh's monograph. 



Testudo chathamensis Van Denb. 

 (Plates XXIX., xxx.) 

 Testudo chat!iameiis!s Van Denburgh, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sri. (4) i. p. 4 (l'J07) (Chatham Island). 



The ? (?) was purchased, along with the type of Testudo wallacei Rothsch., 

 at the dispersal of Mr. Wallace's museum at Distington, Cumberland. It was 

 bought in Callao Bay off a whaler by Mr. Wallace in 1833, together with two very 

 yonng T. nigrita (see infra). It consists of a complete carapace with scutes, and 

 some bones of three legs and the neck. The male, a stnffed specimen, was 

 received in exchange from the Florence Museum for a 40-inch Testudo vicina. It 

 was obtained in March 1884 on Chatham Island, during the voyage of the Italian 

 vessel Vetta Pisani, and bears the Florence Museum Register No. M2454, (.'oil. 25. 

 1896. One costal scnte is missing. 



Testudo microphyes Giinth. 



Testudo niirnijihijes Giinther, Trans. Ruij. Sor. Loud. clxv. p. 275, pis. .30, 37 f. B, 38 f. B, 39 f. li, 

 (1875) (Tagus Cove). (Type ? , locality unknown) ( J (J ? ? Tagus Cove, Com. Cookson). 



Of the six specimens in the Tring Museum, No. 48 was procured by R. H. 

 Beck early in 1901, and Nos. 49 and 50 in 1902, together with a third 6 now in 

 the Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass. The two Nos. 51 and 52 were obtained 

 between Vilamil and Cape Rose on the Johnson-Green expedition. All five are 

 mounted. The ? was brought alive to London by R. H. Beck. 



The two Cape Rose specimens are mounted on plaster carapaces and the 

 skeletons mounted complete. 



Testudo guntheri Baur. 



Testudo giintheri Baur, Amer. Nat. .xxii. p. 1044 (18KU [1890]) (Type. ? Locality. Oxford Museum) 

 (Vilamil Mountain). 



All the twenty-three specimmis of this species, excejit No. 126, were obtained 

 by R. H. Beck on Vilamil Mountain early in 1902. Nos. 30-35 inclusive are 

 unmounted, the rest are mounted. No. 126 is from La Tortuga, and is at first sight 

 as much saddle-backed as any 2\ hecki ; but the first pair of marginal scutes are not 

 modified, as in all the saddle-backed races, but remain thin, and being large, project 

 as in nigrita. I therefore do not separate it from giintheri at present. Seeing,. 

 however, that the Cape Rose tortoises are inseparable from Testudo microphtjes of 

 Tagus Cove, I expect we shall have to add this to T. hecki eventually ; but I do 

 not do so now owing to the different first pair -of marginals. Nos. 99 and 98 are 

 also abnormal, being less in width over curve than in length, but are a2i2)arently 

 true giintheri and not vicina. 



Testudo vicina Giinth. 



Te-itudo cicina Giinther, Trans. Roy. Sor. Loud. clxv. p. 277, pis. 36 f. a, 40 f. B, 41 fs. a and c,. 

 45f3. candi). (1875.) (Type origin ?) (Iguana Cove.) 



Nos. 37, 38, and 03-89 are unmounted, the rest mounted. Nos. Ill, 128, and 

 60 were collected by Dr. Baur, and Nos. 01 and 100 at Old Cobos Settlement by 



