Chelonia. 43 



the Testudo from the Siwalik Hills of India. The detached Wall-case 

 fragments of this great carapace are placed in the Wall-case. No - 12 

 These old land-tortoises, so remarkable for the magnitude they 



FIG. 57. Carapace of Chdone (?) Benstedi (Mantell); Lower Chalk, Burham, Kent. 

 (Figured in " Phil. Trans.," 1841, pis. XI and XII.) 



attained, had extremely long necks and small heads ; they were 

 all vegetable-feeders. 



Several smaller species of Chelonians are also exhibited from Wall-case, 

 the same Indian locality. * ' 



FIG. 58. A, The Skull, and B, the Tail-sheath of the great Horned Chelonian, Miolania 

 Oweni (A. S. Woodw.), from the Newer Tertiary deposits of Australia. Much reduced. 



In Wall-case 11, are placed the remains of a remarkable Miolania 

 extinct Chelonian, named Miolania Oweni, from Australia, 

 having nine horn-like prominences on its skull, which measured 



