166 TESTUDINID 2. 
Emys oculifera, Gray, Syn. Rept. p. 22 (1831), and Cat. Tort. p. 28 
1844). 
ate ee Smith, Ill. Zool. S. Afr., Rept. pl. vi. (1839) ; 
Gray, Cat. Tort. p. 8, and Sh. Rept. i. p. 9 (1855); Bouleng. Proc. 
Zool, Soc. 1886, p. 542; Boettg. Ber. Senckenb. Ges. 1887, p. 158. 
Clemmys oculifera, Strauch, Chelon. Stud. p. 82 (1862). 
Peltastes semiserratus, Gray, Suppl. Cat. Sh. Rept. i. p. 9 (1870). 
Allied to 7. geometrica. Lateral marginals not forming an angle 
with the costals; anterior and posterior margins strongly serrated ; 
number of marginals varying from 10 to 12 on each side; nuchal 
rather large, broadest behind. Plastron notched anteriorly ; suture 
between the gulars as long as, or longer than, that between the 
anals ; suture between the humerals much longer than that between 
the pectorals or the femorals. Beak strongly hooked. Tore limb 
with only a few large tubercular scutes, one of which is subcircular 
and extremely large ; a large subconical tubercle on the hinder side 
of the thigh. Carapace with brownish-yellow and dark brown or 
black radiating rays, usually of nearly equal width, six to ten in 
number on the vertebral and costal shields; plastron yellowish, 
with dark brown rays. 
Length of shell 115 millim. 
South Africa. 
a. , stffd. S. Africa. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 
(One of the types of 7. semzserrata.) 
b, Ye., spir. S. Africa. Sir A, Smith [P.]. 
c,d,e. 6 Q,stfid. S. Africa. 
,9,2,1,k,t,m,n. 8S. Africa, 
Ad. & her., shells. 
Os NEES he Cape Colony. F. M. P. Weale, Esq. [ P.]. 
p. Ad., dry. Between Richmond and Rev. G. H. R. Fisk [P.]. 
Victoria West. 
18. Testudo radiata. 
Testudo radiata, Shaw, Zool. iii. p. 22, pl. ii. 1802) ; Bell, Mon. Test. 
pl. — (1835); Dum. §& Bibr. ii. & 83 (1835) ; Gray, Cat. Tort. 
: 6 (1844), and Sh. Rept. i. p. 95 (LS Strauch, Chelon, Stud. 
79 (1862), and Verth. Schildkr. p. 25 (1865) ; Gray, Suppl. Cat. 
Bh. Rept. i. p. 5 (1870); Peters, oe n. Mossamb. iil, p. 3 (1882). 
coul, Daud. Rept. ii. p. 271, pl. xxvi. (1802). 
desertorum, Grandid. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. (2) xxi. p. 257 
(1869). 
Asterochelys radiata, Gray, Proce. Zool. Soc, 1873, p. 724. 
Carapace very convex, hemispherical; shields strongly striated 
concentrically, except in old specimens, which are smooth ; posterior 
margin more or less reverted and serrated; nuchal present ; supra- 
caudal single; vertebrals not broader than the costals. Plastron 
large; gular region more or less produced and notched; hind lobe 
angularly notched ; pectoral shields very narrow ; suture between the 
eulars longer than that between the anals; axillary small, inguinal 
rather large. Head moderate; a pair of large prefrontal shields ; 
