17. cINIXys. 143 
a,b. S$ & yg., shells. Gambia. 
ce. Yg., spr. Ancober R., Gold Capt. Burton & Lieut. 
Coast. Cameron | P. j. 
d. Yg., spit. Ashantee. 
o J, g- Yg., spir. Gaboon. 
hth ae & stffd. W. Africa. 
i. 6, sk W. Africa. 
M,N, 0. ce @, shells. -W. Africa. 
p. Hgr., shell. —? T. Bell, Esq. [P.]. 
: (Type of C. castanea.) 
2. Cinixys homeana. 
ELS Tee Bell, Tr. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 400, pl. xvii. fig. 
(1827); Gi ee Syn. Rept. p- 15 (1851); Dum. & Bibr. ii. p. fet 
pl. xiv. fig. 2 (1835); Gray, Cat. Tort. p. 11 (1844); Ber thold, 
N. Act. Ae. Leop -Carol, xxii, p. 423, pls. xliii.—xlv. (1850) ; Gray, 
Cat. Sh. Rept. i. p. 13 eer and Pr oc, Zool, Soc, 1863, p. 196; 
Strauch, Verth. Schildkr. p. 38 (1865); Gray, Suppl. Cat. Sh. 
Rept. i. p. 14 (1870). 
Anterior and posterior margins of carapace strongly reverted and 
dentated, serrated and spinose in the young; posterior profile of 
carapace angulated, descending vertically from the anterior part of 
the fifth vertebral shield; anterior marginals much longer than 
posterior ; a narrow nuchal shield; discal shields concentrically 
grooved; vertebral shields broader than costals. Plastron with 
very thick anterior lip, notched in front, but not projecting 
beyond the carapace; hind lobe of plastron very short, truncate, 
about half the width of the bridge; the longest median suture is 
between the abdominal shields, and equals about twice that 
between the pectorals ; the smallest plastral shields are the anals ; 
inguinal large, axillary small. Coloration as in the preceding. 
Length of shell 20 centim. 
Guinea, Gaboon,. 
a, b. 3 2, shells. Cape Coast, Ashantee. Lieut. M. C. Friend, 
RANG Pei: 
ce. 2, skel. W. Africa. 
d. Yg., spir. —-? 
3. Cinixys belliana. 
Kinixys belliana, Gray, Syn. Rept. p. 69 (1831); Dum. § Bibr. ii. 
p. 168 (1835); Gray, Cat. Tort. p. 12 (1844), and Sh. Rept. i. 
p. 18, pl. u. (1855) ; Strauch, Verth. Schildkr. p. 40 (1865) ; Blanf. 
Zool. Abyss. p. 444 (1870); Gray, Suppl. Cat. Sh. Rept. 1. p. 13 
(1870); Scelater, Proc. Zool, Soc, 1871, p. 544; Peters, Reise n. 
Mossamb. ii. p. 5 (1882). 
schoensis, Ltiipp. Mus, Senckenb. iii. p. 226, pl. xvi. (1845). 
Testudo geometrica (non L.), Biancont, Spee. Zool. Mosamb. p-. 52, 
pl. vi. figs. 1 & 2 (1851). 
Kinixys spekii, Gray, Ann. § Mag. N. H. (3) xii, p. 381 (1863), 
and Suppl. Cat. Sh. Rept. i. p. 14. 
Cinixys dorri, Lataste, Le Natur. x. pp. 164 & 228, figs. (1888). 
