20. TESTUDO., 175 
Shell of adult elongate, at least twice as long as deep, with the 
posterior margin very strongly expanded and more or less serrated ; 
nuchal border feebly notched; nuchal shield elongate, narrow ; 
supracaudal undivided, spread out like the marginals ; dorsal shields 
concentrically striated, sometimes convex; second vertebral shield 
usually longer than third, the width of which equals that of the cor- 
responding costals. Plastron large, hind lobe notched behind and 
movable in the adult; suture between the humerals usually not 
longer than that between the pectorals or the gulars; suture between 
the anals as long as or longer than that between the abdominals : 
axillary and inguinal moderate. Head moderate; a large pre- 
frontal shield, followed by a nearly equally large frontal; beak 
feebly hooked ; alveolar ridge of upper jaw rather short and feeble. 
Anterior face of fore limb with large imbricate scutes, forming 
four or five longitudinal and five or six transverse series ; no enlarged 
tubercle on the hinder side of the thigh. Coloration very similar to 
that of 7’. cbera; carapace of adult usually black, each shield with a 
small yellow or greenish spot ; plastron yellowish, each shield with 
a large black spot, which is usually triangular, the base of the 
triangle occupying the anterior border of the shield. 
Length of shell 28 centim. 
Greece. 
a. 3, stffd. Athens. Dr, Lortet [ P.]. 
b. 3, shell. Greece. 
ENG Gye, Sulid: ? 
e. 3, skel. —? 
? 
Ff. Q, carapace. 
36. Testudo leithii. 
Testudo marginata, part., Dum. § Bibr. ii. p. 87 (1835); Gray, Cat. 
Tort. p. 9 (1844), and Sh. Rept. i. p. 11 (1855). 
leith, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 502, figs. 
Peltastes leithii, Gray, Suppl. Cat. Sh. Rept. i. p. 11 (1870). 
Testudo Kleinmanni, Lortet, Arch. Mus. Lyon, iii. p. 188 (1883), and 
iv. p. 11, pl. v. (1887). 
Very closely allied to 7. marginata, but much smaller and differing 
in the following points:—Carapace shorter, not twice as long as 
deep, deeply notched anteriorly ; nuchal shield triangular ; posterior 
border of supracaudal forming an angle, projecting beyond the 
marginals. Anterior face of fore limb covered with a few extremely 
large imbricate scutes disposed in three longitudinal and five 
transverse series. Carapace yellow or yellowish, each shield 
bordered anteriorly and laterally with blackish brown; plastron 
yellow, each abdominal shield with a dark brown triangular or 
cuneiform marking. 
Length of shell 12 centim. 
Sind *; Lower Egypt and neighbouring part of Syria. 
* The fact that the species has not been rediscovered in Sind renders it 
possible that it is not indigenous. Dr. Leith’s specimen may have been 
urchased by him in Sind, or may haye been imported. 
