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Testudo orhicularis and labeled it with this iiame; by that it 

 is possible to identify it as being Linnseus's type, though 

 there is iio Drottningholm lal)el. 



What name then are we to give the species? According 

 to rules, followed before, the species ought to bear the same 

 name as in the lOth edition of Sijst. Naf., namely Testudo 

 geometrica L. But as this name might be maintained to the 

 form described by Linnseus in Amoen. acad., and which he 

 evidently meant in giving the name »geoniefrica» to the spe- 

 cies, I consider it most correctly to abandon the Linnean name 

 amboinensis, as it has not been employed after the year 1754, 

 and instead name the species by the Schweiggerian name 

 gihha, as it is called by Boulenger and other authors. 



The length of the carapace is 59 mm. 



Testudo atra. 



LinnfBus in Mus. Ad. Frid. I, p. 50. Syst. Nat. Ed. X, p. 197 

 (named Testudo mydas). 



In Systema Naturce Linnaeus changes the name atra to 

 mijdas. Qnensel mentions that two dried specimens and one, 

 preserved in alkohol, all being from Mus. Drottnh. are to be 

 found in the museum. But as he also says: »Hujiis plura 

 servantur exempla sicca et in spiritu vini condita^> it is impos- 

 sible to decide whether any of the three specimens, kept in 

 two jars and labeled, as it seems, by Qnensel, is the Drott- 

 ningholm speciraen. There is no characteristic label. 



Museum Regis Adolphi Friderici Tom. II. 



Testudo serpentina Mus. Ad. Frid. II, p. 16 and Lacerta stellio 

 Mus. Ad. Frid. IL p. 37. 



From Mus. Drottnh. there is no specimens of these Lin- 

 nean types, and neither does Quensel state any in his cata- 

 logue. It is probable that they never came to the museum 

 among tlie collections from Drottningholm. 



