CATALOGUE OF SHIELD REPTILES. 



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as the animal increases in age, unlike the Box Tortoises, 

 where the moveable lobes of the sternum often become 

 annhylosed in the older specimens. Cuvier, having seen 

 only one specimen (Reff. Anim. ii. 10), considered this 

 Structure as an accidental deformity, and Wagler by mistake 

 savs it is the front part that is moveable. 



In a very perfect ^young specimen in the Museum, the 

 third costal shield is divided obliquely across by a regular 

 linear suture into two distinct plates, from the hinder part 

 of the upper to the front part of the lower or outer edge. 



The number of the claws is liable to vary in the same 

 specimen. 



* Sternum truncated before and behind ; fifth vertebral 

 plate evenly convex ; claws 4 • 4 or 5 • 4. Cinothorax. 



1. Kinixys BeUiana. Bell's Kinixys. Tab. II. 



Shell oblong, subquadrate, yellow, brown-rayed, rather 

 depressed in front, margin nearly entire ; fourth and fifth 

 vertebral shields equally convex ; nuchal shield elongated. 



Kiuixvs Belliana, Gray, Syn. 09; Cat. Tort. B.M. 12. 



Griffith, A. K. t. 

 Cinixys Belliana, Bum. ^- Bib. Erp. Gen. ii. 1C8; Cat. 



Mkh. R. 6. 

 Kiuixvs Shoeusis, Riippell, Mas. Senck. t. 

 Cinothorax Bellianns, Fit:. Si/st. Rejit. 29 (1843). 

 Cinixys (Cinothorax) belhana. Fit:. Sysf. Schildk. 121 



(1836). 



Hab. North and West Africa ; (naturalized in Guada- 

 loupe ? and ^Mexico 1) . 



a. Animal and shell. Claws 5 '4. Yellow, much rubbed. 



Africa? Presented by Dr. John Edward Gray. 



b. Animal and shell (adult) . Claws 4 • 4. Yellow, brown- 



rayed. Gambia. Presented by J. Whitfield, Esq. 



c. Animal and shell (stuffed). Claws 4 • 4. Discal shields 



concentrically grooved, pale yellow, black-rayed ; areola 

 brown varied ; sternum yellow, flat. "Mexico." Mr. 

 Warwick's Collection. 



d. Very yoimg (in spirits). The nuchal shield short, small, 



distinct, the third costal jjlate on each side divided 

 regularly and obliquely across ; the fore-leg with a row 

 of triangular s]iines on the inner side, and two or three 

 scattered irregular sjiines on its front part. Africa. 

 Mr. Bartlett's Collection. 



** Sternum deeply notched in front ; claws 5' A; fifth 

 vertebral plate regularly rounded. Cinixys. 



2. Kinixys erosa. Eroded Kinixys. 



Shell oblong, brown (yellow-rayed?), hinder edge re- 

 flexed, toothed ; the fifth vertebral shield equally rouuded ; 

 nuchal shield uone. 

 Kinisys erosa. Gray, Syn. 16 ; Cat. Tort. B.M. 12. 



Cinixys erosa. Bum. ^- Bib. Erp. Gen. ii. 16.t ; Cat. Mtth. 



R.'e. 



Testudo angulata (adult), Schlegel, F. Japan. 72. 

 Kinixys castanea. Bell, Linn. Trans, xv. t. 18. 

 Testudo erosa, Schn. Arch. Kceniysb. i. 321 (jun.). 

 T. denticulata, Shaw, Zool. ii. t. 13 (jun.), not Linn. 

 Cinixys castanea. Fit:. Syst. Rept. 29 ; Syst. Schildk. 121 . 

 Testudo Schopfii, Fits. 



Toung. Back equally rounded ; five vertebral sliields 



scarcely raised. 

 Kinixys castanea. Bell, Linn. Trans, xviii. t. 18. 



Fery young. Shell depressed, entire ; edge toothed. 



Testudo denticulata, Shaw, Zool. ii. t. 13, in Mus. Coll. 



Surg. 

 T. erosa, Schweigger. 



Hub. West Africa ; Gambia. 



a. Adult shell (with fore feet only) ; 9i inches. Fore feet 



covered with three rows of large, long, triangular scales. 

 West Africa ; Gambia. 



Osteology : — 



b. Half-grown (shell only) ; 6 inches. West Africa. Pre- 



sented by Thomas Bell, Esq. 

 Kinixvs castanea. Bell, Linn. Trans, xv. t. 18. 



c. Half-grown (shell only) ; 5 inches. West Africa ? 



*** Sternum slightly notched in front ; claws 5 ' 4 ; fifth 

 vertebral plate produced. 



3. Kinixys Homeana. Home's Kinixys. 



Shell oblong, subquadrate, brown, hinder edge reflesed ; 

 up]3er edge of the fifth vertebral shield compressed, pro- 

 duced ; nuchal shield generally distinct. 



Kinixys Homeana, Bell, Linn. Trans, xv. 400. t. 1 7 (1828). 



Gray, Syn. 15; Cat. Tort. B.M. 11. 

 Cinixys Homeana, Bum. l^- Bib. Erp. Gen. ii. 161. t. 14. 

 f. 2 ; Cat. Meth. R. 6. 



Berthold, Act. Nat. Cur. xxii. t. 12 (1845). 



Fit:. Syst. Schildk. 121. 

 Testudo Homeana, Gray, Zool. Misc. 1825. 

 T. angulata (adult), Schlegel, F. Japon. 72. 



Hab. West Africa ; (naturalized in Demerara ? and Gua- 

 daloupe ?) . 



Osteology : — 



a. Shell only ; 7 inches. Demerara. Presented by Sir 



Everard' Home, Bart. 



b. Shell only. Cape Coast, West Africa. Presented by 



Lieut. Matthew C. Friend, R.N. 



M. Schlegel {Faun. Japon. Chelon. 72) regards both 



