280 ' THE GALAPAGOS TORTOISES. 
MEASUREMENTS. 
(In winches). 
Straight Straight Curved Curved Sternal 
length width length width Height length 
T. porteri * 363 31 503 55 223 312 
T. darwini? 38 28 49 46 20% 324 
T. darwini® 483 344 564 62 20.1 36 
1, GOs 263 224 344 37 164 2235 
M.C.Z. 11079 241 19% 30 32 123 
11080 213 163 27 274 112 
11088 273 211 37 384 
11091 223 18 28 304 122 
12049 113 9 15 15 52 102 
TESTUDO MICROPHYES Giinther. 
Plates 11-20, 38, fig. 3. 
Testudo elephantopus GUNTHER, 1875, Philos. trans. Roy. soc. London, 165, p. 261, pl. 33, fig. A, pls. 
37-89, fig. A, pl. 40, fig. A, C, D., pl. 41, fig. B, pl. 42, fig. A, pl. 48, pl. 44, fig. A-A”, C, D; 1877, 
Gigantic land-tortoises, p. 63, pl. 30, fig. A, pl. 42-44, fig. A, pl. 46, fig. A, C, D, pl. 47, fig. B, pl. 51, 
fig. A, pl. 52, pl. 53, fig. A-A”, C, D; Roruscuimp, 1902, Nov. zool., 9, p. 448, 618; Hetier, 
1903, Proc. Wash. acad. sci., 5, p. 53; SteBpnrock, 1909, Zool. jahrb. Suppl., 10, p. 532. 
Testudo microphyes GUNTHER, 1875, Philos. trans. Roy. soc. London, 165, p. 275, pl. 36-39, fig. B; 1877, 
Gigantic land-tortoises, p. 78 (part), pl. 37, pl. 42-44, fig. B; Rotuscuitp, 1915, Nov. zool., 22, 
p. 406, 416. 
Testudo giintheri Baur, 1889, Amer. nat., 23, p. 1044; Van Drensureu, 1914, Proc. Cal. acad. sci., 
ser. 4, 2, p. 335, pl. 84-92; RoruscHiLp, 1915, Nov. zool., 22, p. 406, 410. 
Testudo galapagoensis RoTHSCHILD, 1915, Nov. zool., 22, p. 404 (part), pl. 27, 28. 
Testudo chathamensis VAN DENBURGH, 1907, Proc. Cal. acad. sci., ser. 4, 1, p. 4; 1914, 2, p. 323, pl. 64— 
69; RotuscuiLp, 1915, Nov. zool., 22, p. 406, 409, 416, pl. 29, 30. 
The species Testudo microphyes was founded on a specimen twenty-two 
inches and a half in direct length, at the time in the possession of the Royal. 
Institution of Liverpool. It was said to be ‘‘a fully adult male,” “‘the smallest 
of the Galapagos Tortoises,’ and was supposed to have come from Espafola 
Island (Hood). Later this type was secured by the British Museum and in 
the publication on the Gigantic Land-Tortoises, 1877, after comparison with 
Cookson specimens it was said to be ‘“‘undoubtedly a female” from the north 
of Isabela Island (Albemarle). The conclusions here recorded after a detailed 
1 Rothschild, Nov. zool., 1903, 10. 
2 Van Denburgh, Proc. Cal. acad. sci., 1907, 1. 
3 Rothschild, Nov. zool., 1915, 22. 
4Van Denburgh, Proc. Cal. acad. sci., 1914, 4. 
