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alive on tlio Seychello Islands, where a eonsidenible number are keiit liy tlif pliuiters 

 in a state of semi-iiomcsticatiou. 



The specimen of Testiulo daudini now in the Zoological Gardens, and which 

 has just come over from Manritins, is niidoubtcdly the largest living laud tortoise, 

 and its dimensions are as follows : — 



Length of carapace in straight line . . .55 iftches. 



„ „ over curve .... 07i „ 



Width of carapace straight . . . . 32 „ 

 „ tortoise over curve; . . •  ('f' » 

 Tiie journey affected the health of this iinimal so uuich that its present weight 

 of 501) lbs. is no criterion of its proper weight, although in 1805 it weighed only 

 2411 kilogrammes. 



Mr. Antelme, the former owner of this large tortoise, informs me that during 

 six months of the year it buried itself in the ground and did not eat anytliing. 

 This fact is most interesting, because it cannot be owing to the winter's cold. 



A description of this tortoise, a nudr, lias already been given by Tii. Sau/.ier, 

 in tlie Comptes Rcndus Hebdomadaires des .Si'ances de VAcadcmie des Sciences, 

 ISito, part 2, p. 430. 



The plate is the reproduction of a iiliotngrapli taken in London. 



NEW GENEEA AND SPECIES OE THYlilDIDAE, EPI- 

 PLEMIDAE, AND GEOMETBIDAE, 



FROM SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE WEST 



INDIES, IN THE TRING MUSEUM. 



By W. warren, M.A., F.E.S. 



Family TII ) 'RIIJID. 1 E. 



1. Iza quinquelineata sji. nov. 



Foreicinqx : whitish ochreous, tinely reticulated with brownish and crossed by 

 brown bands. 



Ilindwiiufx: with five chestnut linos parallel to hindmargin, the first three 

 double and filled in with brown; first close to base, short, not touching either 

 margin ; second just beyond, curved and bent; third broad, in the middle, straight 

 from inner margin to cell, then sharjily bent to \iii]ier margin of cell and there 

 ending, the bent end dark brown; postmedian and submargiual lines thick, and 

 becoming cleft towards costa; the interspaces traversed by fine ri])plcd lines. 



Underside like upper. Thorax, verte.'c, pal])i, and upper half of face brown; 

 lower half of face white; abdomen whitish ochreous, tinged with pale brownish. 



Expanse of wings: 'M\ mm. 



One cJ from Bogota, Colombia. 



The forewings are so much rubbed that an exact description of the markings 

 is impossible. The unusual appeanmee of tlie hindwings will easily distinguish 

 the species. 



2. Iza subtransversalis sp. nov. 



Forewings: pale testaceous, with l:iint darker incomplete retieuliition; fringe 

 concolorous. 



