928 MR. A, LOVERIDQE : NOTES ON 



remains, gener.ally of half-grown individuals, were found. One 

 at Mbonoa had definitely been killed by a beast of prey or a man. 

 The local natives (Wataturu) stated that they did not eat them, 

 but this was probably untrue, as they ate agama lizards, rats, 

 and other creatures. 



The tick {Amhlyomma marmoreum Koch) was found on a 

 Pwiigfl, specimen. 



Testudo loveridqii Blgr. 



Blgr. C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 1920, t. 170, p. 264. 



Love. Jour. E. A. & Uganda Nat. Hist. Soc. 1921, p. 50. 



Procter, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1922, pp. 483-526. 



Thirty-six specimens from Dodoma and Tabora ; remarks on 

 the habits of these have already been published as an appendix 

 to Miss Procter's paper. A dozen of these tortoises escaped at 

 Kilosa, and it will be interesting to observe if they survive the 

 numerous carnivora without having any rock shelters under 

 which they can seek refuge. 



No ticks wore ever found on wild specimens, the sandy soil of 

 their habitat being unfavourable to these pests. A tortoise 

 which escaped at iCilosa picked up a tick (Ambli/omma mar- 

 moreum Koch) within twenty-four hours. 



Testudo PRocTERiE, sp. n. (PI. I., II.) 



'i Two specimens from Ikikuyu and Kidenge in Dodoma Dis- 

 trict. The localities are about a hundred miles east of Dodoma, 

 the type-locality of 2\ loveridgii. Ikikuyu, which is to be con- 

 sidered the type-locality of the present species, lies some iifty 

 miles south of Igulwe (Gulwe) station on the Central Railway. 

 The country is different from that of Dodoma in that there are 

 no essentially rocky kopjes, though there are small hills with 

 faii'ly numerous scattered boulders. 



Within a mile of the spot where this specimen was found 

 there are precipitous cliffs topping the mountains, and the 

 slopes below are boulder-strewn and clothed with a dense thorn- 

 bush thicket which is almost impenetrable. The more level 

 country at the foot was, dovibtless, similarly coveretl at one time 

 but is no\v sandy thornbush steppe, amongst whose bushes the 

 native-owned herds of cattle and goats wander. It was here 

 that the tortoise was found eating a mushroom at 6 a.m. 



Superficially it is very similar to T. loveridgii, but difl'ers in 

 the following points : — 



(i.) Greater degree of ossification of the bony exoskeleton, 

 particularly the carapace (the diamond-shajjed fenestra- 

 tion of the plastron is similar to that of T. loveridgii). 

 (ii.) Greater depth of shell in proportion to length and 

 breadth which may be best shown thus : — 



