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- SULCATED TORTOISE. 



Testudo Sulcata. T. testa ovata fuscuy scutellis sulcatis latere 

 Jtavescetitibus. 



Tortoise with ovate brown shell, with furrowed scutella yellow 

 on each side. 



Testudo sulcata. T, cauclata, pedibus digitatis, testa gibba, scu- 

 tellis I'meatis sidco circumscriptis. Lin. Si/st. Nat. Gmel. p. 

 1045. Mill. Tab. Nat. Hist. 26. 



This is one of the larger species of Land-Tor- 

 toise, appearing by Mr. Millar's figure to be about 

 a foot or rather moie in length, from the nose to 

 the tip of the tail. The shell is very convex, and 

 has the general habit of the Gi^ceca and Geometrica 

 as to shape: the disk is divided into thirteen parts 

 or pieces, of the usual subhexagonal and penta- 

 gonal form, each being transversely furrowed from 

 the lower edge to the upper area or terminal sur- 

 face with five or six strongly-impressed sulci ; 

 and across these, in an opposite direction, appear 

 to run three impressed lines or radii : the marginal 

 pieces are furrowed or radiated in a similar man- 

 ner : the general colour of the shell is a dull yel- 

 low, each side of the shield-pieces being entirely 

 of that colour, while the upper and lower part of 

 each is brown: the marginal pieces are also ob- 

 liquely separated into a yellow and brown division : 

 the head is rather large; handsomely and distinctly 

 covered with differently formed scales, those on 

 the top and sides being largest and subhexagonal ; 

 those round the eyes small and rounded, and those 

 on the upper part of the neck hexagonal, but 



