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1038. The shell of the Stellated Tortoise (Testudo actinodes, Bell), wanting the 

 homy scutes. Mtts. Brit. 



1039. The shell of the Stellated Tortoise (Testudo actinodes, Bell), wanting the 

 horny scutes. Mus. Brit. 







1040. The shell of the Angulated Tortoise (Testudo angulata). 



Hob. South Africa. 



Presented by Benjamin Trovers, Jun., Esq. 



1041. The shell of the Carbonaceous Tortoise (Testudo carbonaria, Spix ; Test. Her- 

 cules, Spix). 



Fig. Spix, tab. 14. 



Hab. Brazil and the Antilles. 



Mus. Brit. 



1042. The shell of the Carbonaceous Tortoise (Testudo carbonaria). Mm. Brit. 



1043. The carapace of the Carbonaceous Tortoise (Testudo carbonaria). Mus. Brit. 



1044. The skeleton, with a mutilated cranium, of a Tabulated Tortoise (Testudo ta- 

 bulata), with most of the epidermal scutes remaining upon the plastron and 

 carapace. The pleurapophyses of two vertebrae, with those of the last dorsal, 

 go to abut against the iliac bones. Hunterian. 



1045. The shell, from which the horny scutes have been removed, of the Tabulated 

 Tortoise (Testudo tabulata). Hunterian. 



1046. The skull and eight cervical vertebrae of a Tortoise (Testudo tabulatat). 



The anterior border of the alispheuoid is singularly modified, forming an oblique double- 

 convex trochlear surface, apparently for a synovial joint with the tendon of the temporal 

 muscle, facilitating the play, and adding to the force of that muscle. 



Hunterian. 



