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long, each having a pretty large depressed areola 

 or central part, which is yellow, roughish, and 

 surrounded by a whitish on pale zone, the remain- 

 ing part or broad margin being brown and marked 

 by three or four pretty distinct or strong farrows. 

 The margin consists of twenty-five pieces. The 

 shell appears to vary, like most others, in the in- 

 tensity of its colours, and even sometimes in the 

 number of pieces composing the disk, which, in a 

 specimen described and figured in Mr. Schoepf s 

 work, consists of fifteen instead of thirteen pieces. 

 In the Leverian Museum is also a fine specimen 

 with the same part consisting of fourteen pieces. 



SERRATED TORTOISE. 



Testudo Scrrata. T. testa depressa flavescente, pitnctis subfuscis 



irrurata, scutellis omnibus disci cariuatis, marguie postico teste 



serrato. 

 Tortoise with depressed yellowish shell, minutely freckled with 



dusky specks ; all the scutella of the disk carinated, and the 



hinder margin of the shell serrated. 

 Testudo Spengleri ? Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 1043. 



THIS I describe as a new species, agreeing with 

 no other yet figured or mentioned in any work 

 on natural history. It is a small species, the shell 

 measuring only three inches and three quarters in 

 length, and rather more than two inches and a 

 half in the widest part. Its form is that of a long 

 oval ; its convexity rather slight : its colour a 

 pale yellow-brown, very thickly freckled, if closely 



