10 CLASS RFPTILIA. 



longing to the East Indies, of an enormous size, 

 and three feet or more in length. One of them has 

 been, too, exclusively named, — 



The Indian Tortoise. Test. Indica, Vosm. Schoepf. 

 Tort. pi. xxii. 



Its carapace is compressed in front, and the ante- 

 rior edge is raised above the head. Its colour is a 

 deep brown. 



There are also several species remarkable for the 

 handsome distribution of their colours, as — 



The Geometrical Tortoise. Test. Geometrica, L. 

 Lacep. I. ix. Schoepf. x. 



A small tortoise, whose black carapace has each of 

 its scales regularly adorned with yellow lines, in rays 

 parting from a disk of the same colour. And — 



The Radiated Tortoise. T. Radiata, Shaw. Gem. 

 Zool. III. pi. ii, and Daudin II. xxvi. 



A New HoUand species, almost as well and regularly 

 lineated as the geometrical, but which attains a much 

 larger size.* 



* Add: T. stellata, Schcepf. xxv. ; — T. angulata, Schyveig; — T. areo- 

 lata, Schw., xxiii; — T. denticulata, Sch, xxviii. i. :— 'CT. cafra, Schw. ; — 7V 

 signata, Schw.; — T. marginata, Schw. xii., 1, 2; — T. carbonaria, Spix, 

 xvi. ; T. Hercules, id. xiv.; — T.cagado, id. xvii. ; — T. tahulata, Sch. xiii. J 

 — T. sculpta, Spix, xv. ; — T. Nigra, Quoy et Gaim. Voy. de Freyc, Zool., 

 xxxvii; — T. depressa, Cuv.; — T, biguttata, id.; — T. Carolina, Leconte, &c. 



