INDIAN TORTOISE. 5 



not with one arch, but several lesser ones, for the 

 greater strength." 



It should be farther observed, that the colour 

 of this shell varies in diiferent specimens, the ra- 

 diations being sometimes yellow, and sometimes 

 very pale or whitish, as in Grew's description. 



The- under part of the shell was wanting in the 

 specimen described by Grew; but in the Leverian 

 Museum are specimens of this part also, which 

 differs widely in the distribution of its markings 

 from that of the preceding species ; the ground- 

 colour being blackish-brown, marked by large 

 well-defined yellow divisions or transverse spaces, 

 of which that in the middle constitutes a complete 

 rhomb or horizontal lozenge, bounded above and 

 below by two much narrower ones, while the pieces 

 composing each extremity are also of the same co- 

 lour, and of a subtriangular form. In some speci- 

 mens a few additional yellow rays are interspersed. 



IXDIAX TORTOISE. 



Testudo Indica. T. testa supra collum reflcxa, scutellis trlbus 



primoribus tufarosis. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 145. Schneid. 



Schildkr. p. 355. 

 Tortoise with broxvn bhell, reflected above the neck, and marked 



with a tubercle on the three upper scutella. 

 Great Indian Tortoise. Mem. Nat. Hist. anim. Fr. Acad. p. 



252. pi ibid. 



THIS very large terrestrial species, which is 

 omitted by Linnaeus in the twelfth edition of the 



