542. MR. BOULENGER ON SOUTH-AFRICAN ToRToIsES. [ Dec. 7, 
Carapace dark brown, each dorsal and costal plate with four or 
five yellow rays proceeding from the yellow areole. Plastron yellow, 
dark brown in the middle. 
Near the sources of the Orange River. 
5. TESTUDO SMITHI, sp. n. 
Beak feebly hooked. A large tubercle on the hinder side of the 
thighs. 
Lateral marginals not forming an angle with the costals. Nuchal 
longer than broad. Suture between the gulars nearly as long as that 
between the anals; suture between the humerals much longer than 
that between the pectorals or the femorals. 
Carapace dark brown, with radiating, narrow, yellow, black-edzed 
rays, meeting in the centre of the areole; plastron yellow, with 
dark brown rays, the brown predominating in the middle. 
Length of carapace of adult 115 millim. 
A single specimen, with the mere indication “S. Africa.” 
6. Testupo FIsKI, sp.n. (Plate LVIII.) 
Beak feebly hooked. A large tubercle on the hinder side of the 
thigh. 
Taieha} marginals not forming an angle with the costals. Nuchals 
small, equilateral. Suture between the gulars shorter than that 
between the anals; suture between the humerals much longer 
than that between the pectorals or the femorals. 
Carapace with brownish-yellow and black rays of nearly equal 
width, radiating from the yellow areole; six black rays on each 
vertebral and costal plate, and two on each marginal ; the anterior 
and posterior pair of black rays on the costal and vertebral plates 
meeting their fellows form three series of ocelli. Plastron dirty 
yellow, brown in the middle. 
Length of carapace of adult 75 millim. 
A single male specimen, from De Aar, not far from Hopetown, 
was presented alive to the Zoological Society by Mr. Fisk. 
7. TESTUDO SEMISERRATA, Smith. 
Beak strongly hooked. A large tubercle on the hinder side of the 
thighs. 
i ated marginals not forming an angle with the costals; anterior 
and posterior marginals forming a strongly serrated edge. Nuchal 
longer than broad. Suture between the gulars as long as, or longer 
than, that between the anals; suture between the humerals much 
longer than that between the pectorals or the femorals. 
Carapace with brownish-yellow and dark brown or black radiating 
rays, usually of nearly equal width, six to ten in number on the ver- 
tebral and costal plates. Plastron yellowish, with dark brown rays. 
Carapace of adult 115 millim. 
Common in the districts between Latakoo and the Tropic of 
Capricorn. 
