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CATALOGUE OF SHIELD REPTILES. 



d. Animal and shell (dry). Cape of Good Hope. Mr. 



Parzudaki's Collection. 



e. Animal and shell (stuffed) ; discal shield very convex, 



truncated. South Africa. From the Zoological So- 

 ciety. 



Osteology : — 



b. Shell only ; 3^ inches. South Africa. Presented by 



J. E. Gray, Esq. 



/. Shell only. Mauritius. 



a. Animal and shell (dry) ; not good state ; 3 inches. 

 Cape of Good Hope. Presented by R. Brown, Esq. 



c. Animal and shell (stuffed) ; 3^ inches. From the South 



African Museum. 



Var. pallida. Shell hemispherical ; shields pale grooved, 

 areola blackish ; caudal shield broad, incurved. 



Homopus areolatus, var. pallida. Gray, Testudinata, 5, ined. 



Hah. Africa. 



n. South Africa. Presented by Robert Brown, Esq. 



Apt to vary in the number and form of the vertebral, 

 costal and marginal shields ; the nuchal shield is sometimes 

 wanting, or reduced to a small triangular scale behind the 

 angles of the marginal plates. 



Animal pale brown-black, strongly toothed ; head with 

 small scales and a large six-sided occipital plate ; fore-leg 

 with lanceolate tubercular scales ; tail short, conical ; cheeks 

 covered with small scales. 



Testudo cafra and Testudo Juvencella, Daudin, of which 

 only two very imperfect specimens exist in the Paris Mu- 

 seum, are probably varieties of one of these species. The 

 first has fifteen discal and the latter very convex dorsal 

 plates. 



3. CHERSINA, Gray. 



Thorax convex, very solid. Sternum solid ; sternal 

 shields 1 1, the gular pair united into a single produced one ; 

 inguinal plates moderate. Claws 5*4. 



Palate of skull flat. 



Chersina, Gray, Syn. Rept. 14. 69 (1831) ; Grif. A. K. 



hi. ; Cat. Tort. B.M. 11 (1844). 

 Testudo et Chersina, Fitz. Syst. Schildk. 122 (1836). 

 Chersina (Chersina), Fit:. Syst. Rept. 29 (1843). 

 Testudo (§ iii. part.), Dmn. ^ Bib. Erp. Ghx. ii. 1,51 ; 



Cat. Meth. R. 5. 



Dumeril and Bibron and Fitzinger have confounded this 

 genus with the varieties of Testudo Indica, which have the 

 gular plates united or apparently so. 



Palate of skull flat, very unlike that of true Testudines, 

 where the palate is very deep, concave. 



1. Chersina angulata. The Angulated Tortoise. 



Shell oblong, ventricose ; shields black-grooved, yellow- 

 varied ; areola yellow, sunk. 



Chersina angulata. Gray, Syn. 15. 69. t. 1, 2; Cat. Tort. 

 B.M. 11. 



Fitz. Syst. Rept. 29. 

 Testudo angulata, Dmi. MSS. in Mus. Paris. 



Sc/iweiffff. Arch. Koetiigsb. i. 321. 



Bell, Test. t. 1. 



Bum. Si- Bib. Erp. Gen ii. 330 ; Cat. Meth. R. 5. 

 T. Bellii, Gray, Spic. Zool. t. 3. f. 4. 



K>iorr, Del. Nat. ii. t. 52. f. 2. 

 T. flavo-fusca, 3Ius. Berl. 

 T. pusilla, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 353. 



T. Graii, Bmn. f Bib. Erp. Gin. ii. 135 ; Cat. Meth. R. 5. 

 T. tabulata, var. Africana, Schweigg. Arch. Koenigsb. i. 322. 

 ? T. sculpta, Brandt, not Spix. 



Hab. South Africa ; Cape of Good Hope ; Madagascar. 



a. Adult (animal and shell ; stufied) ; worn. Pale horn- 



colour, with a brown spot in each areola ; 7\ inches. 

 South Africa. Presented by J. E. Gray, Esq. 



b. Animal (half-grown), not good state ; 5y inches. Cape 



of Good Hope. Presented by Robert Brown, Esq. 



e. Animal and shell (half-grown), in spirits. Cape of Good 



Hope. Mr. Brandt's Collection. 

 Testudo sculpta, Brandt, MSS., not Spix. 



/ & g. .\nimal and shell (stuffed). South Africa. 



Osteology :— 



c. Shell ouly (half-grown) ; 5^ inches. Cape of Good 



Hope. Presented by R. Brown, Esq. 



d. Shell only (young), solid ; 4 inches. Cape of Good 



Hope. Presented by J. E. Gray, Esq. 



(■&_;'. Shell only. Cape of Good Hope. 



Schlegel considers Kinixys castanea and K. Homeana as 

 varieties of the species. 



4. KINIXYS. 



Thorax convex, hinder lobe becoming mobile, with a 

 carious suture over the inguinal plate. Sternum solid ; 

 sternal plates 12 ; gular pair separate ; inguinal plates very- 

 large. Claws 5 • 4 or 4 • 4, cyUndrical, blunt ; outer front 

 one small. 



Kinixys, Bell, Linn. Trans, xv. ; Zool. Journ. ii. 514(1828). 



Gray, Syn. 15 (1831) ; Cat. Tort. B.M. 11. 

 Cinixys, Wagler, Syst. 138 (1830). 



Fitz. Syst. Rept. 29 (1843); Syst. Schildk. 121 

 (1836). 

 Cinothorax (Bellianus), Fitz. Syst. Rept. 29 (1843). 



In the young the dorsal suture is scarcely observable, 

 but then the genus can be distinguished by the large size 

 of the inguinal plates ; the suture becomes more observable 



