68 CHAGRIN TORTOISE. 



tier the title of Testudo triunguis. T. pedum un- 

 guiculis tribus, dorsi disco rugoso orbiculato, 

 limbo depressiore lasvi, naribus in cylindro ele- 

 vato et ultra caput prominente. 



CHAGRIN TORTOISE. 



Testudo Granulata. T. testa orbiculata, planiuscitla, granulate, 

 margine cartUagineo. 



Tortoise with orbicular, flattish, granulated shell, with cartila- 

 ginous border. 



La Chagrinec. Ce-pede. (hip. p. ljl.pl. 11. 



Tins remarkable species seems allied to the T. 

 ferox, having the shield furnished with a cartila- 

 ginous and flexible border. It is described by 

 Mons. Cepede, who tells us it was brought from 

 India by Mons. Sonnerat. It is of a flattish or 

 very slightly convex form, the shield measuring 

 about three inches and nine lines in length, and 

 three inches and six lines in breadth : it appears 

 composed, as it were, of two shields, one over 

 the other; the superior being the smallest and 

 shortest, measuring only two inches and eight 

 lines in length, and two inches in breadth : it is of 

 a bony substance, and roughened all over with 

 small granules like the surface of chagrin, and 

 consists of twenty-three pieces, eight of which are 

 placed on each side, constituting two rows of large 

 segments, separated by the middle range of six 

 smaller pieces, which unite with the last or upper- 

 most piece on the anterior part of the disk : the 



