NOTES ON EAST AFRICAN TORTOISES, 923 



45. Notes on East African Tortoises collected 1921-1923, 

 with the description o£ a new species of Soft Land 

 Tortoise. By Arthur Loveridge, C.M.Z.S., F.E.S. 



(Plates I. & II*) 

 [Received August 14, 1923 : Road November 0, 1923.] 



The hundred tortoises dealt with in these notes were all taken 

 in Tanganyika Territory (formerly German East Africa) by my 

 native collectors;, not more than hulf-a-dozen were found by 

 myself. They represent three of the four families known to 

 inhabit Eastern Equatoria. . 



For the convenience of other herpetologists a key to the species 

 recorded from this region has been added to these notes. It is 

 ]i< igely adapted from keys in Dr. Boulenger's ' Catalogue of 

 Chelonia in the British Museum,' 1889, with the recently 

 described species incorporated. 



Taking them from East to-West, the localities mentioned in 

 the following pages are : — 



Morogoro District. — Turiani, Mkata Biver, Uliya, Myombo, 



Ruaha, Godegode. ' . 



Dodoma District. — Pwaga, Kidenge, Ikiknyu, Dodoma, Kis- 



saki, Kilamatinde, Mbonoa, Singida, Mdjengo's. 

 Kondoa-Irangi District. — Mtali's, Zengeragusu, Ulugu. 

 Tahora District. — Tabora, Simbo, Tambali, Luguo, Wembere, 

 Mioanza District. — Sanga, Sagayo. 



My thanks are due to Miss Joan B. Procter, F.Z.S., for advice 

 .and suggestions and the use of material in her cliargo, whilst 

 Aviiting up my field-notes. I have named the new species of soft- 

 shelled land tortoise after her as some acknowledgment of her 

 careful researches i)ito the morphology and relationships of the 

 sti-ange group to which it belongs. 



• I am also indebted to Sir John Bland-Sutton for his gift of X-ray 

 photos of the type which illustrate this paper and to Mr. Norman 

 0. Miller, F.E.^., for making the water-colour drawing which 

 forms the jilate accompanying this article. Mr. Miller was 

 staying with me at the time of the tortoise's decease and spared 

 time from his work on the Orthoptera to ruake this sketch 

 for me. 



Mr. Stanley Hirst has also kindly named the few ticks found 

 upon the tortoises. It is interesting to note that the four 

 species of Testudinidse, though coming from three widely sepa- 

 rated localities, all bore the same tick, which I have never found 

 on any other reptiles or mammals. 



* For explanation of the Plates see page 933, 



