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shields not swollen, concentrically striated, separated by deep 
grooves; areole not or but feebly impressed; vertebral shields 
as broad as or a little narrower than the costals; nuchal small, 
longer than broad. Plastron and plastral shields as in the 
preceding. A pair of large prefrontal shields, followed by a 
large frontal; beak feebly hooked; lower jaw narrower than in 
FH, areolatus. Fore limb covered anteriorly with very large, im- 
bricate, pointed tubercles, one of which, on the inner side near the 
elbow, is movable at right angle to the others ; a very large conical 
tubercle on the hinder side of the thigh ; four claws to both pairs of 
limbs. Pale brown above, each shield narrowly edged with black 
in front and on the sides; plastral shields yellow, brown an- 
teriorly ; shielded or tuberculate soft parts pale brownish, naked 
parts orange. 
Length of shell 13 centim. 
South Africa. 
a. Ad., spir. Cradock. Zoological Society. 
(One of the types.) 
3. Homopus signatus. 
Testudo signata, Walbaum, Chelonogr. PP. ral & 120, pl. — (1782) ; 
Schoepff, Test. p. 120, pl. xxviii. figs. 2 & © a Bell, Mon. 
Test. pl. — (1855) ; Strauch, Verth. Schildkr. p- 85 (1865). 
catra, Daud. Rept. ii. p. 29] (1802). 
Chersine signata, Merr. Tent. p. 30 (1820). 
Homopus sionatus, Dum. § Bibr. ii. p. 152 (1855); Gray, Cat. Tort. 
p. 10 (S44), and Sh. Rept. i. p. 11 (1855) ; Bouleng. Ann. § Mag. 
N. H. (6) ii. p. 136 (1888). 
Shell resembling that of /7. areolatus, except that the areolew are 
less impressed in the adult, and the anterior and posterior margins 
are serrated: inguinal shield large, in contact with the femoral, 
the abdominal, and two marginals. Limbs scaled as in H. areo- 
latus ; a very large conical tubercle on the hinder side of the thigh. 
Fore limb with five claws. Forehead covered with numerous small 
and irregular shields. Shell yellow, shaded with brown on the 
plastron, and elegantly freckled and radiated with blackish brown 
on the carapace ; head and neck yellowish, spotted with black above. 
Length of shell 10 centim. 
South Africa. 
a. Her., spir. O’Kiep, Namaqualand. L. Peringuey, Esq. [C.]. 
Trustees of the 8. African Mus. | P.]. 
b. Ad., shell. —-? 
4. Homopus nogueyi. 
Homopus nogueyi, Lataste, Le Natur, iii. p. 286 (1886), 
Carapace very convex, gibbose behind, sloping forwards, margin 
not reverted nor serrated; inguinal shield large, forming a suture 
with the femoral, abdominal, and three marginal shields. Beak 
