1870.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON NEW TORTOISES. 657 
8. PELTASTES? MARGINATUS. 
Testudo marginata, Gray, Cat. Sh. Rep. p. 11. 
Peltastes? marginatus, Gray, P. Z. 8. 1869, p. 173. 
Var. melas, or male. 
Testudo marginata, Schcepf’s Testudin. tab. xi. & xii. 
A very fine and adult specimen in the British Museum, obtained 
from Mr. Parry, from Greece, is oblong, very solid, black, with more 
or less large white spots on the areola of each plate, and a triangular 
spot on the hinder upper half of the lateral marginal plates, more or 
less white-varied ; the hinder marginal plates are very broad, ex- 
panded, and spread out behind ; the underside of the marginal plates 
is white, those of the front and hinder margins are edged with black ; 
the sternum is concave in the middle and shelving on the sides, more 
or less varied with white, white towards the hinder edge ; the hinder 
lobe is narrow, square, notched out behind; the anal plates nearly 
as wide as the abdominal ; the front lobe is small, semicircular ; the 
gular plates thick, white, slightly notched in front; the humeral 
plates very convex, swollen; the pectoral plates rather narrow, with 
the front edge nearly straight, and the hinder concave on the sides. 
Length over the back 12 inches; caudal and the other posterior 
marginal plates 13 inch wide ; the sternum 183 inches long; hinder 
lobe 3 inches wide. Adult male. 
Testudo marginata (specimen a), Gray, Cat. Sh. Rep. p. 11. 
Hab. Greece. 
There is a second specimen, without the sternum, with the hinder 
margin not so much produced, and the white on the lateral marginal 
plates more distinct. This specimen is something like Testudo greca, 
Linn., Scheepf, Testud. t. ix., but it is not quite so yellow. 
Var. whitei, or female. 
Testudo whitei, Bennett in White’s Selborne. 
A fine adult shell, with the hinder margin moderately expanded, 
and the caudal shield bent down and slightly inflexed; the sternum 
flat, the hinder lobe tapering behind, the anal shields being not more 
than two-thirds the width of the shields before them ; the pectoral 
shields very short, not above one-fourth the length of the abdominal 
shields on the inner half, the outer half about double the width and 
square ; the dorsal shields black; the areola varied with yellow ; 
the hinder upper half of the marginal plates varied with yellow; the 
underside yellowish white, with a few irregular unequal-sized black 
spots. Adult female. The Tortoise described in White’s ‘ Selborne,’ 
and presented to the Museum in 1858 by Mrs. Christopher, niece of 
Mr. White. 
9. PELTASTES LEITHII. 
Testudo leithii, Giinther, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 164. 
Hab, Scinde. 
Ican see no difference between this and a young specimen of 
Peltastes marginatus in the British Museum, except that the shield 
is lighter-coloured; but the specimen of the latter was in confine- 
