TORTOISES. 11 



3. Chersina, Gray. 



Thorax convex, very solid. Sternum solid, sternal shields 11, 

 the gular pair united into a single produced one, inguinal plates 

 moderate. Claws 5-4. 



The Angulated Tortoise. Chersina angulata, Gray, Syn. 

 15, 69, t. 1,2. Testudo angulata, Dum. Mus. Paris. Schw. Arch. 

 Konisb. i. 321. Bell. Test. t. 1 . Dum. $• Bib. E. Gen. ii. 330. 

 T. Bellii, Gray, Spic. Zool. t. 3,/. 4. Knorr, Del. Nat. ii. t. 52, 

 f. 2. T. flavo-fusca, Mus. Berl. T. pusilla, Linn. S. N. ii. 353. 

 T. Graii, Dum. $■ Bib. E. Gen. ii. 135. T. tabulata, var. Africa, 

 na, Schw. Arch. Kon. i. 322. T. peltastes, Dum. 8r Bib. E. Gen. 

 ii. 138. 



Shell oblong, ventricose ; shields black-grooved, yellow-varied, 

 areola yellow, sunk. 



a. Adult, worn. Pale horn-color, with a brown spot in each are- 



ola, 1\ inches. S. Africa. Presented by J. E. Gray, Esq. 



b. Half-grown animal, not good state, b\ inches. Cape of Good 



Hope. Presented by Robert Brown, Esq. 



c. Half-grown, shell only, b\ inches. Cape of Good Hope. Pre- 



sented by R. Brown, Esq. 



d. Young, solid ; shell only, 4 inches. Cape of Good Hope. Pre- 



sented by J. E. Gray, Esq. 



4. Kinixys, Bell. Cinixys, Wagler. 



Thorax convex, hinder lobe becoming mobile, with a carious 

 suture. Sternum solid ; sternal plates 12; gular pair produced 

 and separate ; inguinal plates very large. Claws 5-4, outer front 

 one very small. 



In the young, the dorsal suture is scarcely observable, but then 

 the genus can be distinguished by the large size of the inguinal 

 plates, the suture becomes more observable as the animal increases 

 in age; unlike the box tortoises, where the moveable lobes of the 

 sternum often become ancbylosed in the older specimens. Cuvier 

 only having seen one specimen (Reg. An. ii. 10), considered this 

 structure as an accidental deformity, and Wagler by mistake says 

 it is the front part that is moveable. 



* Fifth vertebral plate produced. 



Home's Kinixys. Kinyxis Homeana, Bell, Linn. Trans. 

 xv. t. 17. Gray, Syn. 15. Dum. Sf Sib. E. G. ii. 161, t. 14,/. 2. 



Test Homeana, Gray, Z. M. 1825. Test, angulata, adult, Schle- 

 gel, F. Japan. 72. 



Shell oblong, subquadrate, brown, hinder edge reflexed ; upper 

 edge of the fifth vertebral shield compressed, produced ; nuchal 

 shield generally distinct. 

 a. and b. Shell only, 7 inches. Demerara. Presented by Sir £. 



Home, Bart. 



