20. TESTUDO. 173 



32. Testudo vosmaeri. 



Testudo indica, Vosiufieri, Sv/tocjff, Ted. p. 10:3, pi. xxii. fij,'. B (1792). 

 iudica, part., Uaud. liept. li. p. 280 (lb02j ; Oray, ISi/u. liept. 



p. U {1631), and Cat. Tort. p. ') (1«4-1), and ^h. Ilcpt. i. p. (J 



(18ooJ. 

 vosmaeri, Fitziny. N. Class, liept. p. 44 (182G; ; Dutn. ^- Bihr. 



ii. p. 140 (18.j5); Giinth. Gi(j. Land-Tort. p. 52, pLs. xxi.-xxix. 



(1877); llubrecht, Notes Let/d. Mus. iii. p. 41 (1881); JIaddon, 



Tr. Linn. Soc. (2) ii. p. 159 (1881). 

 peltastes, Dum. c^- Bibr. ii. p. 1158. 



Chersina peltastes, Strauch, Chelon. Stud. p. 23 (1802). 



vosmaeri, Strauch, I. c. 



Testudo rodericensis, Giinth. Ann. ^- Mai/. N. II. (4) xi. p. 397 



(1873). 

 boutouii, Giinth. Nature, 1876, p. 297. 



Agreeing with the preceding species in the absence of nuchal shield 

 and the ujidivided gular ; distinguished by the extremely thin 

 carapace, which is not declivous in front in the male, and without 

 vertebral humps. Alveolar surface of upper jaw with a single 

 median ridge, 



llodriguez (extinct). 



Shells, skulls, aud numerous bones. ' Transit of Venus ' Expedition. 



Various bones. L. Bouton, Esq. [P.]. (T. bou- 



tonii.) 

 Cast of skull in Paris Museum. Prof. Vaillant [P.]. 



33. Testudo elongata. 



Testudo elongata, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Ben<j. xxii. p. 039 (1853) ; 



Gray, Proc. Zuol. Soc. 1856, p. 181, pi. ix., and 1801, p. 139; 



Giinth. Eept. Brit. Ind. p. 8 (1804) ; Theob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. 



p. 3 (1870) ; Anders. Zool. lies. Yunnan, p. 700 (1879). 

 Peltastes elougatus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1809, p. 171, and Suppl. 



Cat. Sh. Rept. i. p. 9(1870). 



Shell considerably depressed, more than twice as long as deep, 

 with flat vertebral region ; anterior and posterior margins slightly 

 reverted, strongly serrated in young, feebly in old specimens ; shields 

 concentrically striated, except in old specimens ; nuchal present 

 (rarely absent), narrow and elongate ; supracaudal undivided, more 

 or less incurved ; first vertebral usually nearly as long as broad in 

 the adult, the others broader than long and nearly as broad as the 

 costals. Plastron large, truncate anteriorly, deeply notched poste- 

 riorly ; suture between the pectoral shields as long as or longer than 

 that between the humerals ; suture between the gulars as long as or a 

 little shorter than that between the pectorals ; anals forming a very 

 short suture, or entirely separated by the anal notch ; axillary and 

 inguinal moderate. Head moderate ; a pair of large pra;frontal 

 shields, usually followed by a nearly equally large frontal ; beak 

 feebly hooked, tricuspid ; alveolar ridge of upper jaw short and 

 rather feeble. Anterior face of fore limbs with moderate, unequal- 



