20. TESTUDO. 165 
15. Testudo smithii. (Prats IV.) 
Testudo verroxii (non Smith), Gray, Cat. Sh. Rept. i. p. 8 (1855). 
Peltastes verroxii, Gray, Suppl. Cat. Sh. Rept. i. p. 9 (1870). 
Testudo smithii, Bouleng. Proce. Zool. Soc, 1886, p. 542. 
Allied to 7’. geometrica. Lateral marginals not forming an angle 
with the costals; nuchal longer than broad. Suture between the 
gulars nearly as long as that between the anals; suture between the 
humerals much longer than that between the pectorals or the 
femorals. Beak feebly hooked. Fore limb anteriorly with very 
large imbricate scutes, forming four longitudinal and five transverse 
series ; a very large subconical tubercle on the hinder side of the 
thigh. Carapace dark brown, with radiating, narrow, yellow, black- 
edged rays, meeting in the centre of the areole ; plastron yellow, 
with dark brown rays, the brown predominating in the middle. 
Length of shell 115 millim. 
South Africa. 
a. &, stffd. S. Africa. (Type.) 
16. Testudo fiskii. 
Testudo fiskii, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 542, pl. lviii. 
Allied to 7. geometrica. Lateral marginals not forming an angle 
with the costals; nuchal longer than broad. Suture between the 
gulars shorter than that between the anals; suture between the 
humerals much longer than that between the pectorals or the 
femorals. Beak feebly hooked. Fore limb anteriorly with very 
large imbricate scutes, in three longitudinal and five transverse 
series ; a large conical tubercle on the hinder side of the thigh. 
Carapace with brownish-yellow and black rays of nearly equal width, 
radiating from the yellow arcole ; six black rays on each vertebral 
and costal shield, and two on each marginal; the anterior and pos- 
terior pair of black rays on the costals and vertebrals meeting their 
fellow form three series of ocelli; plastron dirty yellow, brown in 
the middle. 
Length of shell 75 millim. 
South Africa. 
a. &, spir. De Aar, near Hopetown. Rey. G. H. R. Fisk [P.]. 
(Type-) 
17. Testudo oculifera*. 
Testudo oculifera, Kuhl, Beitr. x. Zool. p. 77 (1820) ; Strauch, Verth. 
Schildkr. p. 61 (1865). 
* As suspected by Dr. Strauch, the type specimen in the Berlin Museum 
has proved to be referable to this species. At my request, my colleague Mr. O. 
Thomas has kindly examined the specimen during a recent visit to the Berlin 
Museum, and drawn up some notes which show that the pectoral shields are 
separated on the median line, as in some specimens of Testudo emzys. 
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