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Animal pale yellow. The head with small scales, with two 

 nasal, one frontal, and one subaural larger plate ; the neck 

 with small scales ; the front feet with very large scales ; the 

 back of the thighs with two large spines. Length of shell 

 19:1^, breadth 14 inches. 



This species is very like Test, radiata, and may, when 

 more specimens have been examined, prove to be a variety 

 of it, as I was inclined to believe when I had only seen the 

 single specimen from Senegal, in the Paris museum ; having 

 observed two specimens in the Francfort museum, brought 

 from Abyssinia, by Dr. Ruppell, which differ from that spe- 

 cies in being straw coloured, and more oblong and depressed, 

 I have been induced to adopt Dr. Ruppell's opinion, and 

 consider it as the long lost Test, sulcata, of Shaw : the Franc- 

 fort specimens agree well with Miller's figure. 



Page 12, n. 9. Test, stellata, add — Seba, 1, t, 80, f. 3, 

 head scales bad. Erase the reference to this figure under 

 Test. Geograpfiica. 



Page 15. Chersina angulata, add — var. pallida. Testa 

 pallida, nigro macidata. v. t. Mus. Hamb. 



In a museum at Hamburgh, I observed a specimen of this 

 species of a pale horn colour, with a brownish spot in the 

 centre of the areola. The specimen in the British Museum 

 figured in the Spicilegia Zoologica is much paler than they 

 usually are, being bright yellow varied with black, but this 

 shell is much worn. This species is called Test, jiavofusca, 

 by Dr. Weigmann, in the Berlin cabinet. 



Page 15 and 16. Kinixys and Pyxis. — Dr. Wagler has 

 called the first of these genera Cinyxis : it appears that by 

 some mistake in copying the generic characters, he has mis- 

 matched their names, for his character of Pyxis, thoracis pars 

 postica mohilis, certainly belongs to Kinixys ; but in the 

 character of the latter he has mistaken the thorax for the 

 sternum, it should be sterni lolus anticus mobilis, and not 

 " Thoracis pars antica mohilis.'''' Seep. 128. 



Page 16, n. 1*. Kinixys BeUiana, {Bell's Kinixys.) Testa 

 oblongo sub-quadrata flava antice sub-depressa margine 

 sub-integro, scutellis vertebralibus 4 et 5 equaliter convexis ; 

 nuchali elongate. 



Kinixys BeUiana, Gray, Griffith, Trans. Animal Kingd. 



Hab. Mus. Brit. 



The thorax convex, rather depressed in front, convex and 

 rather elevated behind. The front margin deeply but roundly 

 nicked in the middle, and roundly extended on the sides. 



