20 GEOMETRICAL TORTOISE. 



Graeca, accompanied by a slight contraction or 

 sinking in on each side. 



This species appears evidently to be the same 

 with that figured in the work of Johnston, under 

 the title of Schildt Krotte, tab. 80, and the figure 

 is by no means a very bad one, though the mark- 

 ings of the shell are somewhat too strongly ex- 

 pressed. 



The true native country of the animal seems 

 not very distinctly known. Mr. Schoepf is in- 

 clined to think it an American species. 



I cannot but add, that the Count de Cepede 

 seems to be not the only author who has con- 

 founded it with the T. Grasca; and it is probable 

 that it has frequently been mistaken for that ani- 

 mal. 



GEOMETRICAL TORTOISE. 



Testudo Geometrica. T. testa ovata nigra, sculellis ckvatis, 



Jlavo stellatim radiatls. 

 Tortoise with ovate black shell and elevated scutclla radiated 



with yellow. 

 Testudo geometrica. T. pedibus posticis palmatis, testae scutellis 



elevatis tnincatis. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 353. 

 T. scutellis testce matce omnibus elcvatis sitpcrne planis, striis j!a- 



vis velut e centra stellatim concurrentibus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 



Gmel.p. 1044. 

 Testudo testellata minor. Raj. Quadr. 



FROM its strong and well-contrasted colours 

 and symmetrical regularity of pattern, the present 

 species is more readily distinguishable at first 



