176 TESTUDINIDJJ. 



a. 2 , stffd. Sind. Dr. Leith [P.]. (Type.) 



i. $,spir. Alexaudria. Dr. Lortet [P.]- TAs typical 



of T. Jikimiutmu.) 

 c. d , shell. ? Dr. J. E. Gray [P.]. 



37. Testudo ibera. 



Testudo pusilla (non L.), Shaw, Zool. Hi. p. 53 (1802); Strauch, Ei-p, 



Ah/, p. 14 (1SC2), and Chclon. Stud p. 07 (18G2), and Vcrth. 



Schildkr. p. 14 (1805; ; Boettq. Ahh. Senchenb. Ges. ix. p. 123 



(1874). 

 p-roeca, part., Baud. Rcpt. ii. p. 218 (1802) ; Gray, Cat. Tort. 



p. 9 (1844), and Sh. liept. i. p. 10 (1855). 



ibera, Pallas, Zoo(/r. Ross.- As. iii. p. 19 (1831); EicMv. Zool. 



Spec. Ross. Pol. iii. p. 190 (1831), and Faun. Casp.-Catic. p. 47, 

 pis. vi. & vii. (1841) ; Blanf. Zool. E. Pcrs. p. 300 (1876) ; lortet, 

 Arch. Mas. Lyon, iv. p. 3, pi. i. (1887). 



— ecaudata, Pall. I. c. 



— grfeca. Bell, Man. Test. pi. — (1835). 



— maiiritanica, Dum. <§• Bibr. ii. p. 44 (1835). 

 wbitei, Bennett, White's Xat. Hist. Selborne, p. 361 (1836). 



Peltastes graecus, part., Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 173, and 

 Siippl. Cat. Sh. Rept. i. p. 12 (1870). 



marginatus, var. whitei, Gray, Siippl. p. 11. 



mauritauicus, Gray, Hand-l. Sh. Rept. p. 12 (1873). 



iSliell usually not twice as long as deep, with the posterior margin 

 feebly expanded ; in old specimens, however, it is more elongate and 

 the posterior margin assumes a shape somewhat similar to that of 

 T. marginata ; nuchal shield narrow, elongate ; supracaudal un- 

 divided, never spread out and subliorizontal as in T. manjinata ; 

 vertebral shields broader than long, as broad as the costals. Plastron 

 large, hind lobe notched behind and movable in the adult : suture 

 between the humerals much longer than that between the pectorals ; 

 suture between the anals nearly as long as, or longer than, that 

 between the abdominals; axillary and inguinal small. Head as in 

 T. marginata : prsefrontal shield sometimes divided longitudinally. 

 Anterior face of fore limb with large imbricate scutes, forming 

 four or five longitudinal and five or six transverse series ; a large 

 subconical tubercle on the hind side of the thigh. Carapace of 

 young yellowish or pale olive, each shield spotted and bordered with 

 black; the black spots more irregular and predominating in the 

 adult; some specimens uniform brownish; plastron more or less 

 spotted with blackish. 



Length of shell 23 centim. 



Korth-west Africa, Syria, Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, Persia. 



a. $ , stffd. Mogador. 



b. $ , skel. Mogador. 



c. Yg., spir. Valley of the Meander. R. McAndrew, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 d-e. Yg., spir. Xanthus. 



f. 9 , spir. Aralych, Transcaucasia. St. Petersburg Mas. 



[E.]. 



