166 XESTUDINID^. 



Eiuys ociilifera, Gray, Sya. liept. p. 22 (1831), (Did Cat. Tort. p. 26 



(1844). 

 Testudo semiserrata, Smith, III. Zaol. S. Afr., liept. pi. vi. (18.30) ; 



Gray, Cat. Tort. p. 8, and Sk. Rcpt. i. p. 9 (1855) ; Boideny. Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 18S0, p. 542 ; Boetfy. Ber. Senckenb. Ges. 1887, p. 138. 

 Clemmys oculifera, Strauch, Chclon. Stud. p. .32 (1SG2). 

 rultast'es semiserratu^, Gray, Sappl. Cat. Sh. Rept. i. p. 9 (1870). 



Allied to T. geometrica. Lateral marginals not forming an angle 

 with the costals ; anterior and posterior margins strongly serrated ; 

 number of marginals varying from 10 to 12 on each side; nuchal 

 rather large, broadest behind. Plastron notched anteriorly ; suture 

 between the gulars as long as, or longer than, that between the 

 anals ; suture between the humerals much longer than that between 

 the pectorals or the femorals. Eeak strongly hooked. Fore limb 

 with only a few large tubercular scutes, one of which is subcircular 

 and extremely large ; a large subconical tubercle on the hinder side 

 of the thigh. Carapace with brownish-yellow and dark brown or 

 black radiating rays, usually of nearly equal width, six to ten in 

 number on the vertebral and costal shields ; plastron yellowish, 

 "with dark brown rays. 



Length of shell 115 millim. 



South Africa. 



a. $,stffd. S.Africa. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 



(One of the types of T. seiniserrata.) 

 h. Yg., spir. S. Africa. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 



c,d,e. c?2,stffd. S.Africa. 

 f,y, Ji, i, k, I, m, n. S. Africa. 



Ad. &hgr., shells. 

 0. Yg., ypir. Cape Colony." F. M. P. Weale, Esq. [P.]. 



p. Ad., dry. Between llichmoud and Rev. G. H. II. Fisk [P.]. 



Victoria West. 



18. Testudo radiata. 



Testudo radiata, S/um, Zool. iii. p. 22, pi. ii. (1802) ; Bell, Mon. Test. 



pi. — (1835); Dam.^-Blbr. ii. p. 83 (1835); Gray, Cat. Tort. 



'^. Q {ISii), and Sh. Eept. i. p. 9 (1855); Strauch, Chelon. Stud. 



p. 79 (18(52), ayid Verth. Schildkr. p. 25 (1865) ; Gray, Snppl. Cat. 



Sh. Bept. i. p. 5 (1870) ; Peters, Reise n. Mossamb. iii. p. 3 (1882). 



coui. Baud. Bept. ii. p. 271, pi. xxvi. (1802). 



desertorum, Grandid. Rev. et May. de Zool. (2) xxi. p. 257 



(18G9). 

 Asterochelys radiata, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 724. 



Carapace very convex, hemispherical; shields strongly striated 

 concentrically, except in old specimens, which are smooth ; posterior 

 margin more or less reverted and serrated : nuchal present ; supra- 

 caudal single ; vertebrals not broader than the costals. Plastron 

 largo ; gular region more or less produced and notched ; hind lobo 

 angularly notched ; pectoral shields very narrow ; suture between the 

 gulars longer than that between the anals; axillary small, inguinal 

 rather large. Head moderate ; a pair of large praifrontal shields ; 



