Zoology.'] 



NATURAL HISTORY OF VICTORIA. 



[Reptilia, 



Measurements— continued. 





Female, 



Specimen 









Young 

 male, from 

 Gippsland, 

 11th June 



1883. 





from 



junction of 



Murray 



and 



from 12 



miles from 



Maffra, 



Upper 



Female 

 with large 



ovary, 

 June 1883. 



Male, from 

 Gippsland, 

 June 1883. 







Darling. 



Gippsland. 











Ins. lines. 



Ins. lines. 



Ins. lines. 



Ins 



lines. 



Ins. lines. 



Length of 5th vertebral plate (5) ... ... 



1 7 



1 9 



1 3 



1 



5 



1 3 



Greatest width behind 



1 11 



1 8 



1 7 



1 



7 



1 2 



"Width at front margin 



6 



8 



6 







5 



6 



Length of neck from front edge of carapace to 















occiput 



3 5 



3 6 



3 5 



3 



7 



2 4 



Diameter at middle 



11 



1 



1 







11 



10 



Length of head 



1 6 



1 9 



1 6 



1 



5 



1 4 



Greatest width at hind margin of ear 



1 1 



1 3 



1 1 



1 







10J 



Greatest width 



7 



9 



9 







8 



81 



Diameter of ear ... 



4| 



5 



4 







3* 



3 



Length of anterior limb, about 



2 7 



3 



2 6 



2 



4 



2 



„ „ longest toe, without claw ... 



6 



5 



4 







5 



5 



„ „ claw 



5 



6 



3 







3 



3 



„ „ posterior limb, about 



3 6 



3 8 



3 



2 



8 



2 



„ „ longest toe, without claw ... 



9 



6 



5 







5 



4 



„ „ claw ... 



5i 



7 



5 







3* 



4 



„ „ tail, about 



9 



6 



6 







8 



7 



„ „ intergular plate ... 



2 2 



2 2 



2 



1 



11 



1 H 



Greatest width 



1 8 



2 



1 7 



1 



5 



1 04 



Width of gular plates (1) at outer margin, each 



1 2 



1 2 



1 







11 



9 



Outer margin of humeral plate (2) ... 



1 10 



2 1 



1 4 



1 



7 



i 24 



Length of anal plates (6) at outer margin 



1 3 



1 3 



1 







10 



9 



Width of plastron across ends of caudal plates 



2 11 



1 6 



1 2 



1 



1 



1 



„ across middle of femoral plates (5)' 



4 2 



4 5 



3 5 



3 



2 



2 9 



„ of plastron across ends of posterior outer 















angles of humeral plates (2) 



4 3 



4 7 



3 5 



3 



6 



2 11 



Number of tubercles in 1 inch along middle of 















back of neck, about 



Seven 



Ten 



Seven 



Nine 



Sixteen 



Reference. — Testudo longicollis, Shaw, Gen. Zool. v. 3, t. 6 ; = Chelodina 

 Novce-Hollandice, Dum. & Bib. Erp. v. 2, p. 443, t. 21, p. 2. 



This handsome Tortoise is as common in the rivers of Southern 

 Gippsland as the Chelemys Macquaria is in the Murray and its 

 tributaries ; and although it also inhabits the more northern 

 Australian rivers, the Chelemys has not yet been found in those 

 flowing south. Although the yellow upturned sides of the cara- 

 pace are usually marked with square brown patches on the edges 

 of the plates, and those below have usually broad brown edges, 

 some rare examples have the brown so extended as almost to 

 obliterate the usual, yellow ground colour. The detailed measure- 

 ments I have given show how the individual plates, as well as the 

 general outline of carapace and plastron, vary ; in none of my 

 specimens do the anterior edges of the 2nd and 11th marginal 

 plates coincide with sutures of the costal plates, as mentioned in 



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