APPENDIX TO THE CATALOGUE OP SHIELD REPTILES. 



They may be divided thus : — 



A. Peltastes. Upper beak with three teeth on the front 



margin. Asia. 

 * Beak keeled in front. P. elongatus, with a distinct nuchal 



shield ; platynotus and stellatus, with no nuchal shv Id. 

 ** Upper jaw bluntly keeled; nuchal shield none. P. 



Forstenii. 



B. CnERsrNELLA. Beak toothless, rounded in front ; thighs 



unarmed. Africa. P. geometricus, tentorius, Ver- 

 roxii, semisulcatus, marginatus, Leithii, and graecus 

 (with a nuchal shield). 



C. Centbochelys. Beak rounded in front; upper hinder 



part of the thighs with large conical spine-like scales. 

 Africa. P. sulcatus, nuchal shield none. 



Peltastes stellatus (p. 8), add : — 



Gray, P.Z.S. 1870, p. 054; Tortoises Src. tab. 11 & 

 12 (from life). 



For Testudo megalo read Testudo megalopus, Blyth. 



Peltastes platynotu3 (p. 8), add : — 

 Gray, P.Z.S. 1870, p. 655, tab. 33. 

 Hah. Countries to the east of the Bay of Bengal. 



Peltastes geometricus (p. 9), add : — 



Gray, P.Z.S. 1870, p. 655; Tortoises Sec. t. 13 (from 

 life). 



Hah. S. Africa, Cape of Good Hope. 



Peltastes tentorius (p. 9), add : — 



Gray, P.Z.S. 1870, p. 656; Tortoises Src. t. 14 (from 

 life). 



Hab. S. Africa. 



Peltastes Verroxii (p. 9), add : — 



Peltastes Verreauxii, Gray, P. Z. S. 1870 (name changed 

 by the editor). 



Peltastes semiserratus (p. 9), add: — 

 Gray, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 656. 



Peltastes elongatus (p. 9), add : — 



Gray, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 656. 



Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. xxxii. p. 83. 



Hab. From Aracan to Mergui (Blyth). 



" In a young specimen in the British Museum the hinder 



marginal lateral plates are produced into an acute triangular 

 lobe on the hinder part of the edge. The front margimal 

 shields are also acutely produced, but not so much as the 

 hinder ones; the caudal shield is produced on the middle 

 of each side, and the central part between the productions 

 is thin and crenulated on the edge." — Gray, P. Z. S. 1S72. 



Peltastes Forstenii. 



Shell pale yellowish brown, with a few black stains, 

 those on the costal and submarginal shields the smallest ; 

 oblong, rather broader behind than in front, rather depressed, 

 with a flattened centre to the back ; the vertebral plates 

 broader than long, the first shortest, pentangular, produced 

 into an angle in front, the second, third, and fourth rather 

 oblong, four-sided, with the middle of the sides rather pro- 

 duced ; the last largest, as long as broad ; nuchal plate none : 

 marginal plates high, the first, second, and third strongly 

 produced, angular; the eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh 

 rather produced at the edge and slightly recurved ; caudal 

 plate very broad, more than twice as broad as high, rather 

 produced on the hinder edge ; the sternum brown, with a 

 large blackish blotch on the outer scales and abdominal 

 plates, flat, notched in front, and a very large deep notch 

 behind ; three front pairs of plates narrow ; abdominal 

 plate very large ; anal plate small, triangular ; beak strong ; 

 upper jaw with three indistinct teeth on the front edge, 

 very obscurely prominent in the middle, between the nos- 

 trils ; crown covered with symmetrical small shields, the 

 supranasal shields being much the largest : the chin and 

 the throat covered with very minute scales ; the fore legs 

 covered with large prominent scales above and below, 

 which are largest and conical and most prominent on the 

 outer edge ; the hind legs and hinder part of the body 

 covered with unequal shields ; tail short, conical. 



Testudo Forstenii, Schlegel, V, rhandl. p. 30, footnote. 



Gray, Suppl. Cat. Shield Rep. p. '!. 

 Peltastes Forstenii, Gray, P.Z.S. 1872, tab. (ined.). 



Hab. Celebes (Meyer). 



The specimen in the British Museum was received with 

 some reptiles in spirits from Celebes, collected by Dr A. B. 

 Meyer. It is somewhat like Peltastes elongata in general 

 appearance, but differs from it in the form of the shields 

 on the head, the depressed body, and the total absence of a 

 nuchal plate. 



I have no doubt that this Tortoise is a specimen of the 

 Testudo Forstenii of Schlegel and Miiller, from Gilolo, men- 

 tioned in a note to the ' Verhandelingen over de Natuurl. 



