68 CLASS REPTILIA. 



Seba thinks that the aquatic tortoise, found by Marc- 

 grave in Brazil, and which is named Jurura by that writer, 

 should be referred to this species. But this is a mistake. 

 Seba is also in error in making Brazil the habitat of his tor- 

 toise, Daudin believes it to be Indian, but it is more likely 

 that it belongs to the Cape. 



Mr. Bell, in the third volume of the Zoological Journal, 

 has described three new and beautiful species of the land- 

 tortoise, under the names of T. actinodes, T. teutoria, and 

 T. pardalis. 



The actinodes has a black head, with yellow spots. On the 

 fore-feet are numerous large black yellow spots ; not so nume- 

 rous, but larger, on the thighs. The shell is elevated, ovate, 

 with the margin anteriorly notched, posteriorly denticulated ; 

 the whole of the scuta sulcated, black, with regular yellow 

 radiations, and with large yellow areolae. The marginal 

 scuta are twenty-three, forming a deeply-serrated outline; 

 the sternum is yellow. In the young state, this however 

 appears to be the T. stellata of Schneider. 



The teutoria has the dorsal scuta conical, acute, at the 

 apex black, striped with yellow ; the marginal scuta, twenty- 

 four ; sternum narrowed behind, with a deep acute emargina- 

 tion ; deep uniform brown in the middle, through the whole 

 length, and pure light yellow at the sides. 



In the pardalis, the head is of a uniform dull brown, which 

 also pervades the neck, feet, and tail, but with occasional 

 shades of dirty yellow. The neck is very long, feet robust, 

 furnished with strong conical and triangular scales. The 

 shell is very deep, and formed like that of T. Indica; 

 scuta, flat sulcated, of a dirty light yellow ; claw with numei- 

 rous large irregular black spots, as if splashed, but assuming 

 in a slight degree a radiating direction ; the areolae of the 

 vertebral scuta, a little elevated ; those of the costal scuta, 

 placed very near their upper margin, towards their junction 



