KINIXYS. 15 



1. Chersina angulata, [Bell's Chersina.) Testa oblonga 

 ventricosa nigra supra collum triangulariter excisa ; scu- 

 tellis disci rectilineis sulcatis, areolis flavis depressis. 



Testudo angulata, Dumeril, Schw. 7 (v. t. Mus. Par,) Test- 

 Bellii., Gray Spic. Zool. t. 3, f. 4. (v. t. Mus. Brit.) Knorr. 

 Del. Nat. iii., t. 52. f. 2. 



Habitat ad Cap. Bonae Spei, D. R. Brown, (v. v. Hort. nost. 

 et t. Mus. Brit. D. Bell.) 



The gular shields produced and truncated in front, the 

 nuchal plate very narrow, the front half of the marginal 

 plates yellow, the hinder half black ; sternum yellow, black 

 rayed. Howit, (Mus. Liverpool, t. ) appears to figure a 

 variety with the gular plates much produced. Test, pnsilla, 

 Lin. and Daud. (not Edw. nor Grew's figure) and con- 

 sequently Test, miniata, Lacep. appears to belong to this 

 species, which is sometimes reddish beneath when alive ; 

 as also Test. Africana, Herm., and Test, tahulata Africana, 

 of Schweiger. 



Gen. 3. KINIXYS, Bell. [Kinixys.) 



Testae dorsi pars posterior mobilis, parti anteriori sutura 

 cariosa connexa. Sternum solidum scutellis 12. 



This genus is easily distinguished from the other Tortoises 

 in the adult state, by the hinder part of the upper shell being 

 capable of considerable motion, and separated from the 

 central and front part by a transverse, irregular, carious, 

 and somewhat ligamentous suture. In the young state, they 

 difter but slightly from the common tortoises, as the dorsal 

 suture is then scarcely to be observed. The suture can 

 scarcely be said to be sub -elastic. Baron Cuvier (Reg. 

 Anim. ii. 10 note,) appears to consider this structure as 

 merely an accidental circumstance, he having seen only one 

 specimen ; but I have verified the fact of its being common 

 in the group on 9 specimens, four of which I have seen alive. 



1. Kinixys Homeana, [Home's Kinixys.) — Testa obi ongo 

 subquadrata fusca, margine posteriore retlexo, scutello verte- 

 bral! 5 margine superior! prominente, nuchali elongato 

 gracili. 



Test. Homeana, Gray, (v.t. Mus. Brit.) Kinixys Homeana, 

 Bell, Lin. Trans, xv. t. 17, (v.t. Mus. Bell.) 



/3 Scutello nuchali lato, (v. t. Mus. Par.) 



