106 Dorothea Bate — Gigantic Land Tortoise, Menorca. 



the greater trochanter and the head. The largest of the three 

 proximal ends (Text-fig. 2) is very fragmentary, but shows that both 

 upper and lower aspects of the shaft were much flattened. 



In the second most of the greater trochanter is missing, but there 

 was evidently no intertrochanteric notch, nor any more than the 

 shallowest groove between the head and the greater trochanter. 



The specimen shown in Fig. 2 (2, 2a) is of the right side and small 

 in size. The shaft is slender, its circumference being only 4*5 cm, 

 a short distance below the head, which has a largest diameter of 



Pig. 2." — Upper ends of two right femora of (?) Testudo gymnesicus. 

 1, 2, anterior face ; la, 2a, ventral face. h. head of femur; g.t. great 

 trochanter, f nat. size. 



barely 3 cm. It differs from the other examples in the greater 

 trochanter rising considerably above the lesser, in the presence of 

 a shallow groove between the two trochanters, and a deeply excavated 

 one between the greater trochanter and the head. Though very 

 inferior in size, in these other respects it is not unlike the proximal 

 end of a femur of T. rolusta in the national collection.' The 

 difference between the Menorcan specimens is well shown in Text- 

 fig. 2. In all three the pit between the head and the trochanters 

 is of considerable size and depth, tiiough in the second this is only 

 inferred as the hollow is still partially filled with matrix, 



^ Described and figured by Leith Adams, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxxiii, 

 pi. V, figs. 4, 4a, 4&, 1877. 



