542 MR. BOULENGER ON SOUTH-AFRICAN TORTOISES. [DeC. 7, 



Carapace dark brown, each dorsal and costal plate with four or 

 five yellow ra^'s proceeding from the yellow areolae. 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-edged 

 rays, meeting in the centre of the areolae ; plastron yellow, with 

 dark brown rays, the brown predominating in the middle. 



Length of carapace of adult ll.i millim. 



A single specimen, with the mere indication " S. Africa." 



6. Testudo fiski, sp. n. (Plate LVIIL) 



Beak feebly hooked. A large tubercle on the hinder side of the 

 thigh. 



Lateral 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 areolae ; 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 milHm. 



A single male specimen, from De Aar, not far from Hopetown, 

 was presented alive to the Zoological Society by Mr. Fisk. 



7. Testubo semiserrata. Smith. 



Beak strongly hooked. A large tubercle on the hinder side of the 

 thighs. 



Lateral 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. 



