AitT. 17 EAST AFRICAN VEETEBRATES LOVERIDGE 49 



REPTILIA 



It is hoped that the following notes may form a fairly exhaustive 

 list of the reptiles found in the immediate vicinity of Dodoma 

 township. 



CHELONIA 



KINIXYS BELLIANA Gray 



BELL'S HINGED TORTOISE 



Native names. — Furgobi (Chigogo); Furgobi (Kiswahili). 



Decidedly scarce in the Dodoma district; one example was brought 

 in from Kongonda, 9 miles outside the township. Only four were 

 caught during as many months. Several others came from Mbulu 

 in the Arusha district. They feed well in captivity and took papaw 

 quite readily. 



TESTUDO PARDAUS Bell 

 LEOPARD TORTOISE 



Native names. — Malugangi (Chigogo); Furgobi (Kiswahili). 



Also by no means common, though apparently more abundant 

 than Bell's tortoise, as over a dozen were brought in from the coun- 

 try around Dodoma. A very large one was taken on the railway 

 line at Nzingi, another at Irazo. Most of the 34 individuals brought 

 home by the expedition came from the Shinyanga, Arusha, and 

 Kondoa Irangi centers. 



One of the Arusha tortoises was the largest Tanganyika Territory 

 specimen I have yet seen. A Tabora tortoise laid two eggs, on 

 August 5 and 25, respectively. It is only presumed that it was the 

 same reptile laid both. These eggs measured 38 by 40 mm. and 40 

 by 40 mm. 



A tick {Amhlyomma marmoreum) w^as taken from one of these 

 tortoises. 



TESTUDO TORNIERI Siebenrock 



SOFT-SHELLED LAND TORTOISE 



Testudo loveridgii Boulenger, 1920, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci., Paris, vol. 

 170, p. 264. 



Some interesting additions to our knowledge of this reptile resulted 

 from the expedition. It was collected at Dodoma and Tabora (from 

 which T. loveridgii was first recorded), but an individual was also 

 taken near Kondoa Irangi, 105 miles to the north of Dodoma; two 

 from Mfilima, two from Kikombo, both the latter localities com- 

 paratively near Dodoma, and Kihakwe, about 80 miles to thesoutheast 

 and not more than a dozen miles (if my memory is correct) from 

 Ikikuyu, the type locality of Testudo proderae. The offering of a 



