20. TESTUDO. 17' 



//,/(. llgr. &yg., Between Chah Sup:uti and Gen. Goklsmid [P.]. 



shells. Duruh, N.E. Persia. 



I. 2,stffJ. Karman, S.E. Persia. W. T. Blanfonl, 



Esq. [0.]. 

 k-l. Yg., spir. Karman, S.E. Persia. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



m, n. c? 2 , stfl'd. ? Dr. J.' E. Gray [P.]. 



0. 9 , shell. ? Mrs.Christopher[P.]. 



(Type of T. tchitci) 

 p. ?, shell. ? 



38. Testudo graeca. 



Testudo oTfcca, Linn. S. X. i. p. 3-")2 (17C)Gj ; Sahoej)//', Test. p. 38, 

 pis. viii. k ix. (1792) ; Hermann, Obsero. Zonl. p. 219 (1804) ; 

 Bon/ and Bihron, Exped. Mom', licpf. p. 58, ])1. vii. fig. 1, & pi. ix. 

 tig. 4 {18:3:5 J ; Bonap. Icon. Faun. Ital. (18;j4); Dnm. S,- Blhr. \\. 

 p" 49 (18:35); Strauch, Chelun. Stud. p. 7:5 (1862), and Verth, 

 Schildkr. p. 10 (1805) ; Schreib. Jlerp. Eur. p. 550(1875) ; LoHet, 

 Arch. Mm. Lyon, iv. p. 5, pis. ii. & iii. fig. 1 (1887). 



hermanni, Gmcl. Si/st. Nat. p. 1041 (1789). 



gra3ca, part., Daud. Hept. ii. p. 218 (1802); Gray^ Cat. Tort. 



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



Peltastes gnecus, part., Gray, Proc. Zool. 1809, p. 17:3, and Suppl. 

 Cut. Sh. Bept. i. p. 12 (1870). 



Chersinella grseca, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1S73, p. 725, pi. Ix. fig. 4. 



Carapace moderately convex, not or but very feebly expanded 

 posteriorly, not serrated ; nuchal elongate ; supracaudal divided 

 above, incurved in male ; dorsal shields concentrically striated ; ver- 

 tebrals considerably narrower than costals ; fiftli vertebral, however, 

 very broad, much broader than the others. Plastron large, notched 

 behind ; suture between the pectoral shields not half as long as that 

 between the humerals ; suture between the anals as long as or longer 

 than that between the humerals ; axillary and inguinal small. Head 

 as in the preceding'species. Scaling on front of fore limbs compara- 

 tively small, the scales, which are larger towards the outer side, 

 formino- seven to ten longitudinal series ; no conical tubercle on the 

 hinder side of the thigh ; tail ending in a claw-like horny tubercle. 

 Shell bright yellow, dorsal and marginal shields spotted and bordered 

 with black ; a broad black band along each side of the plastron. 



Length of shell 14 ceutim. 



Balearic Islands, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Italy, Dalmatia, Balkan 

 Peninsula, Greek archipelago, Syria. 



a <-? , spir. Antakia, Syria. Dr. Lortet [P.]. 



b. 6 , stffd. ? Dr. J. E. Gray [P.], 



c. 2,sttfd. ? Gen. Hardwicke [I 



d. c? , shell. ? Gen. Hardwicke [E 



e."$, shell. ? 



Under the name of Testudo <jrceca bettai, Lataste has described, 

 Le Natur. 1881, p. 390, an old specimen, of unknown origin, which 

 appears to be an anomalous T. r/racn, approaching in some respects 



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