bihan(t till k. sv. vet.-akad. handl. band 26. AFD. IV. n:o 1. 25 



Linnean Type-Specimens, not belonging to 

 Museum Adolphi Friderlci. 



Testudo denticulata. 



Linnajus in Syst. Nat. Ed. XII, p. 352. 



Bonlenger puts a ? to Testudo denticulata L. as syno- 

 nymons with Testudo tabulata Wahlb. I am now able to prove 

 that botli the species are identical. It is a young one from 

 de Geer's collections. According to Schoepff^ p. 119 there 

 were two specimens of this species in Museum de Geer, the 

 one of which was kept in Upsala and figured in the work of 

 SchoepfF, plate 28, fig. 1, the other in Stockholm. 



Thus Testudo tahulata Wahlb. might to be called Testudo 

 denticulata L. 



The length of the carapace of the specimen, which is a 

 stuffed one, is 56 mm., the breadth 43 mm. 



Lacerta scincus. 



Linnneus in Syst. Nat. Ed. X, p. 205, Linnfeus and Hasselqvist 

 in Hasselqvist's Iter Palestinum p, 309. Syn. in Boul. Cat. Liz. III, 

 p. 391, Scincus officinalis Laur. 



A bad specimen of this lizard is kept in the museum, 

 which according to the label has belonged to Linnteus and 

 been the type of his Lacerta scincus. It was presented to 

 the museum on the Itt of Sept. 1838 by the Envoy Baron 

 Brinkman. On an old label in the jar is written in german 

 letters -»detta hafver tillhört Herr Ärchiatern Carl Linné.y» 

 According to my opinion, this lizard ought to be named 

 Scincus scincus (L.). 



Total length 125 mm. (the tail mutilated). 



Råna typhonia. 



Linna?us in Syst. Nat. Ed. X, p. 211. 



In Systema Naturce Linnseus describes a frog by this name, 

 which according to his disciple Rolander Jiahitat in America 

 clamitans nocte sono cornicis tetro hicente». Most authors re- 

 gard it is a synonym to the species of the genus Bufo, which 



' Historia Testndinum. Erlangen 1792. 



