20. TESTUDO. iis 
32. Testudo vosmaeri. 
Testudo indica, Vosmaeri, Schoepff, Test. p. 103, pl. xxii. fig. B (1792). 
—— indica, part., Daud. Rept. 11. p. 280 (1802); Gray, Syn. Lept. 
p- 9 (1831), and Cat. Tort. p. 5 (1844), and Sh. Rept. i. p. 6 
(1855). 
vosmaeri, Fitzing. N. Class. Rept. p. 44 (1826); Dum. § Libr. 
ii. p. 140 (1835); Giinth. Gig. Land-Tort. p. 52, pls. xxi—xxix. 
(1877); Hubrecht, Notes Leyd. Mus. iii. p, 41 (1881); Haddon, 
Tr. Linn, Soe, (2) i. p. 159 (1881). 
peltastes, Dum. § Libr. ii. p. 188. 
Chersina peltastes, Strauch, Chelon. Stud. p. 25 (1862). 
vosmaerl, Strauch, U. ¢. 
Testudo rodericensis, Giinth. Ann. § Mag. N. H. (4) xi. p. 397 
(1878). 
boutonii, Giinth. Nature, 1875, p. 297. 
Agreeing with the preceding species in the absence of nuchal shield 
and the undivided gular; distinguished by the extremely thin 
carapace, which is not declivous in front in the male, and without 
vertebral humps. Alveolar surface of upper jaw with a single 
median ridge. 
Rodriguez (extinct). 
Shells, skulls, and numerous bones. ‘Transit of Venus’ Expedition. 
Various bones. L. Bouton, Esq. [P.]. (7. bou- 
toni.) 
Cast of skull in Paris Museum, Prof. Vaillant { P. ]. 
33. Testudo elongata. 
Testudo elongata, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxii. p. 639 (1853) ; 
Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1856, p. 181, pl. ix., and 1861, p. 139; 
Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 8 (1864); Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. 
p. 3 (1876) ; Anders. Zool. Res. Yunnan, p. 706 (1879). 
Peltastes elongatus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 171, and Suppl. 
Cat, Sh. Rept. i. p. 9 (1870). 
Shell considerably depressed, more than twice as long as deep, 
with flat vertebral region; anterior and posterior margins slightly 
reverted, strongly serrated in young, feebly in old specimens ; shields 
concentrically striated, except in old specimens; nuchal present 
(rarely absent), narrow and elongate; supracaudal undivided, more 
or less incurved ; first vertebral usually nearly as long as broad in 
the adult, the others broader than long and nearly as broad as the 
costals. Plastron large, truncate anteriorly, deeply notched poste- 
riorly ; suture between the pectoral shields as long as or longer than 
that between the humerals; suture between the gulars as long as or a 
little shorter than that between the pectorals ; anals forming a very 
short suture, or entirely separated by the anal notch; axillary and 
inguinal moderate. Head moderate; a pair of large prefrontal 
shields, usually followed by a nearly equally large frontal ; beak 
feebly hooked, tricuspid; alveolar ridge of upper jaw short and 
rather feeble. Anterior face of fore limbs with moderate, unequal- 
