KUNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 47. N:(> 6. 7 



The muskglands of the lower jaw were about tho size of a small walnut in fche 

 3 m. long specimen, and their ducts opencd with comparatively wide pores on fche 

 under side of the jaw. 



Chelonia. 



Only three species of tortoises are represented in the collection and they were 

 all of them obtained in the Guaso Nyiri district where the fauna, to judge from other 

 groups, is composed to great extent of animals belonging to Somaliland. As two of 

 the present species are widely spread and recorded from Somaliland as well, their 

 occurrence here could be expected, but the discovery of the third, the rare Testudo 

 tornieri Siebenrock is of more interest (conf. below.). 



Testudinidse. 

 Testudo pardalis Bell. 



Siebenrock: Synops. rcz. Schildkr. Zool. Jahrb. 1909 Suppl. 10, Hft. 3, p. 522. 



One specimen from the steppe at Lekiundu river, south Guaso Nyiri 9 /s 1911. 

 This species is distributed all över the Eastern part of the continent. 



Testudo tornieri Siebenrock. 

 Siebenrock: Synops. rez. Schildkr. Zool. Jahrb. 1909 Suppl. 10, Hft. 3, p. 538. 



One specimen of this interesting species was obtained in the thornbush at Njoro 

 about 1° N. lat. in Febr. 1911. This specimen displays the same softness of the 

 shell as has been described by Siebenrock from two specimens, but as I unfortu- 

 nately only obtained one specimen I have not dissected it. 



The two specimens that have been collected before are recorded from Bussissi 

 south of Victoria Nyanza, and Lindi. These localities are thus not only very distant 

 inter se, but also very far from Njoro. From this may be concluded that this tor- 

 toise has a wide distribution in East Africa, even if it is very rare, and extends into 

 the boundaries of the Somali-fauna. 



Pelomedusidse. 



Sternothaerus sinuatus Smith. 



Siebenrock: Synops. rez. Schildkr. Zool. Jahrb. 1909 Suppl. 10, Hft. 3, p. 556. 



A young specimen (shell 127a cm.) of this species way caught at Guaso Nyiri 

 near the förd on the Marsabit road 12 / 2 . Another very large specimen with the length 

 of the shell amounting to 32 1 /a cm. was obtained at Guaso Nyiri below Chanler Falls 



