19. HomorUs. 147 
posterior margin not serrated ; mguinal 
shield large, in contact with the femoral ; 
fore limb with four claws ............ 4, nogueyi, p. 148. 
1. Homopus areolatus. 
Testudo areolata, Thunberg, Vetensk. Ac. Hand. viii. p. 181 (1787) ; 
Schoepff, Test. p. 104, pl. xxi. (1792); Daud. Rept. ii. p. 287 
(1802); Bell, Mon. Test. pl. — (1885); Strauch, Chelon. Stud. 
p. 92 al 862 yn and Verth, Schildkr. p. 85 (1865). 
fasciata, Daud. Ll. ce. p. 294. 
pusilla (von L.), Daud. 1. e. p. 299. 
Chersine fasciata, Merr. Tent. p. 29 (1820). 
areolata, Merr. l. e. Pe 3 
tetradactyla, Merr. l. ec. p. 82. 
Homopus areolatus, a & Bier . p. 146 (1835); Gray, Cat. 
hort. pa 10) € 844), and Sh. pee i. a 11 (1855), and Proc. Zool. 
Soc, 1875, p. 726, 
Shell depressed, more than twice as long as deep, of equal 
depth throughout, margin not serrated; dorsal shields more or 
less swollen, separated by deep grooves, with impressed areole 
surrounded by deep concentric grooves; a small nuchal; ver- 
tebral shields broader than long, as broad as or a little narrower 
than the costals. Plastral lobes short, about half the width of the 
bridge, front lobe truncate, hind lobe openly notched; the longest 
median suture is between the abdominals and equals about four or 
five times that between the pectorals; the smallest shields are the 
gulars; axillary and inguinal very small. Beak very strongly 
hooked. A large prefrontal shield, sometimes divided longitudinally. 
Fore limbs covered with very large, subequal, strongly imbricate, 
- pointed scales or tubercles, one of which, on the inner side near 
the elbow, is movable at right angle to the others; four claws to 
both pairs of limbs. Carapace olive, centre of each shield reddish 
brown; plastron brown in the middle, yellow towards the 
perinhery. 
Length of shell 10 centim. 
South Africa. 
a. Ad., stffd. Cape of Good Hope. R. Brown, Esq. [P.]. 
b. Ad., stffd. S. Africa. Sir A. Smith | P.]}. 
e-d. Yg., spir. 8. Africa. 
ef Ad., stitd: S. Africa. 
g, 2,2. Ad., skels. S. Africa. 
k,l, m,n. Ad., shells. 5S. Africa. 
o. Ad., shell. —? Dr. J._K. Gray [P.]. 
2. Homopus femoralis. 
Homopus femoralis, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1888, p. 251, pl. xiv. 
Shell depressed, more than twice as long as deep, flat on the 
vertebral region, posterior margin reverted and serrated; dorsal 
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