400 Mr. Bell o?i Two new Genera of Land Tortoises. 



Spec. 2. KiNixYs HoMEANA. Tab. XVJJ. Fig. 2. 

 Dorso post ice abrupte gibbo ; scitto margiiiali aiitico iinpari. 

 Habitat in Africa occiclentali. 

 Mus. nostr. et Brit. 

 Testudo Homeana. G?y/// MS. in Mus. Br. 



This species very much resembles the former in all its general 

 characters, not onl}' of form but of marking : the outlines, how- 

 ever, are more strongly marked, the general appearance ruder, 

 and the shape more flattened and expanded. It is of a dull 

 brown colour, with yellowish blotches along the sides, and the 

 internal part of the marginal plates, where the head and extre- 

 mities pass, of a rich deep red. 'J"he gibbous projection of the 

 back is so considerable as to form a right angle. The second, 

 third and fourth vertebral scuta are very irregularly hexagonal, 

 and the second and third costal as irregularly pentagonal, the 

 sides of each figure being cxtremelj^ unequal. The anterior 

 marginal plates project to a greater extent than in 7v . castanea, 

 and the whole of the marginal scuta are more horizontal and 

 more expanded. They are 24 in number, having, in addition 

 to those of the other species, a long, linear, pointed, single one 

 between the first pair. The joint which renders the hinder 

 part of the back moveable is similar in its structure and 

 situation to that of K. castanea, but is even more strongly 

 marked. The anterior part of the sternum does not project, 

 as in that species, beyond the upper shell, nor is its bifid ex- 

 tremity so long and pointed. 



Mr. Gray informs me, that the specimens which are in the 

 British ]\Iuseum came from Sierra Leone, and were collected by 

 Lieut. j\L C. Friend, R.N. lie states, that according to that 

 gentleman's account the back part moved considerably when 

 the animal was alive. 



Dimensioîis. 



