20. TESTUDO. 161 



notch ; suturo between the anals vciy short; axilhirj' and in.^iiinal 

 small. Head moderate ; a pair of large praifroiital shieldd ; heak 

 feebly hooked, tricuspid; edge of jaws strongdy dentate; alveolar 

 surface of ui)per jaw with a stronj^ tul)erculato median ridge. Foro 

 limb anteriorly with scattered, rhoiuljoidal, lai'ge l)ony tul)erclcs ; 

 hind limb with largo, conical, spur-like bony tul)ercles on the heel ; 

 two or three very largo conical tubercles on tlie back oF tho thighs. 

 Yellowish or horn-colour, carapace closely spotted with black ; i)las- 

 tron uniform or with a few small black spots or radiating streaks. 



Length of shell 4:} contim. 



Africa south of the E(|uator. 



rapt. Speko [P.]. 



— Daii.sU'rvillc, Esq. [T.]. 



Sir A. Smith [P.]. 



9. Testiido elegans. 



Testudo elegans, Schoepff, Test. p. Ill, pi. xxv. (1792); Daiid. Rcpt. 



ii. p. 2Gi) (1H02) ; Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 4 (1801) ; Thuoh. Cat. 



Mepf. Brit. Ind. p. 2 (1876). 

 stellata, Selnvm/n. Prodr. p. 56 (1814) ; Graij, Cat. Tort. p. 7 



(1844), audiSh. Rept. i. p. 7 (LSorj). 

 Chersine elegans, Merr. "Tent. p. .'Jo (1820). 

 Testudo actinodes, Bell, Zool. Journ. iii. p, 410 (1828), and 3Ion. 



Te.^d. pi. — (1835); Bum. S,- Bihr. ii. p. 66 (18.-i5); St ranch, 



Chelan. Stud. p. 75 (1862), and Verth. Schildkr. p. 19 (1865). 

 geometrica, Ilutton, Journ. As. Soc. Benrj. vi. p. 689, pi. xxxviii. 



(18.37). 



megalopus, Bh/th., Journ. As. Soc. Ben//, xxii. p. 640 (1854). 



Peltastes stellatus, Grai/, Suppl. Cat. Sh. Rej^t. i. p. 8 (1870). 



Carapace very convex, dorsal shields often forming humps ; lateral 

 margins nearly vertical ; posterior margin somewhat expanded and 

 strongly serrated ; no nuchal ; supracaudal undivided, incurved in the 

 male ; shields strongly striated concentrically ; first vertebral longer 

 than broad, the others broader than long, third at least as broad 

 as the corresponding costal. Plastron large, truncate or openly 

 notched in front, deeply notched, bifid behind ; suture between the 

 humerals much longer than that between the femorals ; suture be- 

 tween the pectorals very short; axillary and inguinal rather small. 

 Head moderate ; forehead swollen, with convex forehead covered with 

 rather small and irregular shields ; beak feebly hooked, hi- or tri- 

 enspid ; edge of jaws denticulated ; alveolar ridge of upper jaw strong. 

 Outer anterior face of fore limb with numerous unequal-sized large 

 imbricate pointed tubercles ; heel with large, more or less spur-like 

 ttibercles : a group of large conical or subconical tubercles on the hinder 

 side of the thigh. Carapace black, with yellow areolos from which 



