148 TESTTrDIITID^. 



sliiokla not swollen, concentrically striated, separated by deep 

 grooves ; areolic not or but feebly impressed ; vertebral shields 

 as broad as or a little narrower than the costals ; nuchal small, 

 longer than broad. Plastron and plastral shields as in the 

 preceding. A pair of large prasfrontal shields, followed by a 

 large frontal ; beak feebly hooked ; lower jaw narrower than in 

 H. areolatiis. Fore limb covered anteriorly with very largo, im- 

 bricate, pointed tubercles, one of which, on the inner side near the 

 elbow, is movable at right angle to the others ; a very large conical 

 tubercle on the hinder side of the thigh ; four claws to both pairs of 

 limbs. Pale brown above, each shield narrowly edged with ])lack 

 ill front and on the sides ; ])lastral sliields yellow, brown an- 

 teriorly ; shielded or tuberculate soft parts pale brownish, naked 

 parts orange. 



Length of shell 13 centim. 



South Africa. 



a. Ad., spir. Cradock, Zoological Society. 



(One of the types.) 



3. Homopus signatus. 



Testudo siguata, Walhaum, CheJonoqr. pp. 71 & 120, pi. — (1782); 



Scho(j>f, Test. p. 120, pi. xxviii. figs. 2 & 3 (17J)2) ; Bell, Mon. 



Test. ])1. — (18;')5) ; Sfnntch, Verth. SchUdhr. p. .35 (ISGo). 



cafia, Daud. liept. ii. p. 291 (1802). 



Chersine signatn, Merr. Tent. p. 30 (1820). 



HomojHi.s signatus, Ihim. Sf Bihi: ii. p. lo2 (1835); Graij, Cat. Tort. 



p. 10 (1844), and Sh. liept. i. p. 11 (18-3o) ; Bouleny. Ann. % Maj. 



N. JL\(j) ii. p. 130 (1888). 



Shell resembling that of IT. areolatus, except that the areolae are 

 less impressed in the adult, and the anterior and posterior margins 

 are serrated : inguinal shield large, in contact with the femoral, 

 the abdominal, and two marginals. Limbs scaled as iu //. areo- 

 latus ; a very large conical tubercle on the hinder side of the thigh. 

 Pore limb with live claws. Forehead covered with numerous small 

 and irregular shields. Shell yellow, shaded with brown on the 

 plastron, and elegantly freckled and radiated with blackish brown 

 on the carapace ; head and neck yellowish, s])otted with black above. 



Length of shell 10 centim. 



South Africa. 



«. Hgr., spir. O'Kiep, Namaqualand. L. Peringuey, Esq. [C. 



Trustees of the S. African Mus. [P. 



b. Ad., shell. ? 



4. Homopus nogiieyi. 



Homopus nogueyi, Lataste, Le Katur. iii. p. 2SG (1880). 



Carapace very convex, gibbose behind, slo]nng forwards, margin 

 not reverted nor serrated ; inguinal shield large, forming a suture 

 with the femoral, abdominal, and three marginal shields. Beak 



