CATALOGUE OF SHIELD REPTILES. 



9. Testudo semiserrata. The Toothed Cape Tortoise. 

 Browii, yellow-rayed ; below yellow, black-rayed ; nuchal 

 shield elongate, triangular ; anterior and posterior margin 

 strongly serrated, the hinder margin recurved ; discal shield 

 with six or eight, marginal shield with one or two, broad 

 black rays ; the fore feet with large tubercular scales above 

 the claws. 



Testudo semiserrata, A. Smith, IHust. S. Afric. Zool. t. 4. 

 Gray, Cat. Rept. B.M. 8. 

 Bum. Cat. MM. R. 3. 



Hab. South Africa. 



a. Adult. Shields rather convex. South Africa. From 

 the South African Museum. 



6 & c. Shields scarcely raised. South Africa. From the 

 South African Museum. 



Osteology : — 



d. Yomig (shell only). Thorax orbicular ; margin more 

 acutely serrated. South Africa. From the South 

 African Museum. 



10. Testudo radiata. The Coui. 



Shell hemispherical ; shields flat, grooved, black, yellow- 

 rayed, areola small, rufous ; nuchal shield triangular ; 

 sternum produced in front, truncated behind. 



Testudo racUata, Shaw, Zool. iii. t. 2. 



Grew, Mus. t. 3. f. 2. 



Bell, Test. t. 1, 2. 



Gray, Syn. 1 1 ; Griffith's A.K. ix. ; Cat. Rept. B.M. 5. 



Bum. ^- Bib. Erp. Gen. ii. 83 ; Cat. Me'th. R. 5. 



Wagler, Syst. Amphib. t. 6. f. 1, 2, skel. 

 T. Coui, Baud. R. ii. 2/1. t. 26. f. 2. 

 T. Madagascariensis, Comm. Mus. Par. 

 T. calcarata (part.), Merrem, Tent. f. 11. 



Hab. Madagascar. 



k. Adult (shell and animal). Margin and shields much 

 worn. Gular plate produced, rounded, not nicked ; 

 anal plate very short, very convex. Madagascar. 



d. Shell and animal ; 6j inches. Gular plate nicked. 



Madagascar. 



/. Like k, but gular plate nicked. 



m & II. Very young (animal and shell). Madagascar. 



Osteology. Wagler, Syst. Amphib. t. 6. f. 1, 2, skeleton ; 

 Cuvier, Oss. Fuss. v. 193. t. 12. f. 1, 6, 12, t. 13. f. 16, 

 17, 27, 28, 35. 



a. Upper shell only ; 9 inches. Madagascar. From the 

 Museum of the Royal Society. 



b & c. Shell only. Madagascar. Presented by Gen. Th. 

 Hardwicke. 



e. Shell only, wanting some plates ; 5j inches. Mada- 



gascar. 



/. Young (shell only) ; 4 inches. Gular plate short, trun- 

 cated. Madagascar. 



g & 0. Young (shell only). 



h. Very young (shell only). 



i. Half-grown (shell only). 



p. Skeleton and shell. Madagascar. 

 Society. 



From the Zoological 



q. Shell only. Shield black, with very broad yellow rays. 

 Madagascar. 



11. Testudo Pardalis. The Leopard Tortoise. 



Shell nearly hemispherical, blackish or yellow, black- 

 spotted ; shields grooved ; areola of the costal shields near 

 the upper edge ; nuchal shields none. 



Testudo Pardahs, Bell, Zool. Journ. ii. 420. t. 25 ; Test. 

 t. 1, 2. 



Gray, Syn. 12. t. 1. f. 2, 3 ; Cat. Rept. B.M. 7. 



Bum. ^- Bib. Erp. Gin. ii. 71 ; Cat. Meth. R. 4. 

 T. armata, Boie, Erp. Jar. MS. 

 T. bipunctata, Cuv. R. A. ii. 10. 



Gray, Syn. t. 3. f. 2, 3. 



Gottw. Schildk. t. k. f. 15. 

 Testudo Boiei, Wagler, Icon. Amphib. t. 13; Syst. Amphib. 



138. t. 6. f. 7, 8. 

 Chelonoides Boiei, Fitz. Syst. Rept. 29 (1843). 

 Geochelone chelonoides Boiei, Fit:. Syst. Schildk. 122. 

 " T. biguttata, Cuv.," Fit:. 

 "Testudo signata, Walbaum, t. 11," Schlegel. 

 Geochelone pardalis, Fit:. Syst. Schildk. 122. 



Hab. Africa ; Cape of Good Hope ; Port Natal. 



d. Adult (animal and shell) ; 1 2^ inches. South Africa. 



From the South African Museum. 



e. Animal and shell (half-grown). South Africa. Pre- 



sented by the Zoological Society. 



Osteology : — 



/. Adult (stuffed) ; discal shield convex ; caudal shield 

 produced, elongate. South Africa. From the Zoo- 

 logical Society. 



g. Young (shell only, without front lobe of sternum) ; 

 yellow, shields black-edged, areola spotted ; shields 

 grooved. 



A. Sternum only ; 13 inches. South Africa. 



12. Testudo sulcata. The Grooved Tortoise, 



Shell oblong, depressed, dirty-yellow, dorsal line flattened, 

 with a deep triangular notch in front ; front and hinder 

 margin strongly reflexed and deeply toothed ; lateral edge 

 slightly keeled ; caudal plate very broad, inflexed ; shields 

 deeply grooved, areola small, of costal and marginal plates 

 marginal. Animal blackish-brown ; scales over the eye- 

 brows small ; sternum produced and bifid in front. Animal 

 pale yellow ; feet with very large scales in front ; thighs 

 with two large spines. 

 Testudo sulcata. Miller, Cim. Phys. t. 26. 



