312 TESTUDO. 
NOTE XLIII. 
ON A NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS TESTUDO 
BY 
Dr. Th. W. VAN LIDTH DE JEUDE. 
(Plate 9.) 
On arranging the tortoises of the genus Zestudo in the 
collections of the Leyden Museum I met with a mounted 
specimen, collected at the Cape of Good Hope by the late 
Kuhl and van Hasselt, which though having much in com- 
mon with Zestudo geometrica L., yet in other points differs 
from that species and shows more resemblance with Testudo 
elegans Schoepf. In the absence of the nuchal shield as well 
as in the peculiar form of its gular shields our specimen 
differs from the South-African species of the genus Zestudo 
allied to Zestudo geometrica!) and must be regarded as to 
belong to a new species: 
Testudo Strauchi nov. spec. 
Carapace very convex, the dorsal shields, especially the 
third one, swollen and subconical, lateral marginals nearly 
vertical not forming an angle with the costal shields, pos- 
terior margin feebly reverted and feebly serrated, shields 
very strongly striated concentrically. No nuchal, supracaudal 
single feebly incurved, first vertebral as long as broad, 
the others much broader than long, the third broader than 
1) G. A. Boulenger. On the South-African Tortoises allied to Zestudo geo- 
metrica. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 540. 
Notes from the Leyden Musenm, Vol. XV. 
