20. TESTUDO. 165 



15. Testudo sinithii. (Plate IV.) 



Testudo verroxii (non Smith), (Iraij, Cut. S/i. liept. i. p. 8 (185r>). 

 I'eltastes verroxii, Orny, Snppl. Cat. Sh. licpt. i. p. 9 (1870). 

 Testudo smitbii, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, p. 542. 



Allied to 2\ geomeirica. Lateral marginals not forming an angle 

 with the costals ; nuchal longer than broad. Suture between the 

 gulars nearly as long as that between the anals ; suture between tho 

 humerals much longer than that between the pectorals or the 

 femorals. lieak feebly hooked. Fore limb anteriorly with very 

 large imbricate scutes, forming four longitudinal and five transverse 

 series ; a very large subcouical tubercle on the hinder side of the 

 thigli. Carapace dark brown, with radiating, narrow, yellow, black- 

 edged rays, meeting in the centre of tlie areohe ; i)lastroii yellow, 

 with dark brown rays, the brown predominating in the middle. 



Length of sheU 115 millim. 



South Africa. 



a. 5 , stffd. S. Africa. (Type.) 



16. Testudo fiskii. 



Testudo liskii, Bouleny. Tn>c. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 512, jil. Iviii. 



Allied to T. aeomctn'cu. Lateral marginals not forming an angle 

 with the costals ; nuchal longer than broad. Suture between the 

 gulars shorter than that between the anals ; suture between the 

 humerals much longer than that between the pectorals or the 

 femorals. Eeak feebly hooked. Fore limb anteriorly with very 

 large imbricate scutes, in three longitudinal and five transverse 

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

 Carapace with brownish-yellow and black rays of nearly equal width, 

 radiating from the yellow areola) ; six black rays on each vertebral 

 and costal shield, and two on each marginal ; the anterior and pos- 

 terior pair of black rays on the costals and vertebrals meeting their 

 fellow form three series of ocelli ; plastron dirty yellow, brown in 

 the middle. 



Length of shell 75 millim. 



South Africa. 



a. (5, spir. De Aar, near Hopetown. Rev. G. H. R. Fisk [P.]. 



(Type.) 



17. Testudo oculifera*. 



Testudo oculifera, Kuhl, Beitr. z. Zool. p. 77 (1820) ; Strauch, Verth. 

 Schildkr. p. 61 (1865). 



* As suspected by Dr. Straucb, the type specimen iu the Berlin Museum 

 has proved to be referable to this species. At my request, my colleague Mr. O. 

 Tbomas has kindly examined tbe specimen during a recent visit to tbe Berlin 

 Museum^ and drawn up some notes wbicb show tbat the pectoral sbields are 

 separated on the median line, as in some specimens of Tedach emys. 



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