50 AREOLATED TORTOISE. 



figured by Mr. Schoepf, as the T. elegans of Seba, 

 must be a very different animal, and has all the 

 appearance of a variety of the geometrica. 



AREOLATED TORTOISE. 



Testudo Areolata. T. testa modice gibha, scutellis subquadran^ 



gulis, elevatis, profunde sulcatis, areolis depressis scabris. Schoepf. 



Test. 104. t. 23. 

 Tortoise with moderately convex shell, with subquadrangular, 



elevated, deeply furrowed scutella, and depressed rough 



areola?. 



Testudo terrestris Brasiliensis. Seb. 1. 1, 80./. 6. 



Testudo areolata. T» pedibus digitalis, testce gibbosm scutellis 



elevatis subquadrangulis striatis, medio depressis scabris. Thunb, 



Nov, Act, Acad. Siiec, 8. p, 180, 



This species, long since figured in the work of 

 Seba, appears to have been either overlooked by 

 Linn^us, or purposely omitted oh account of his 

 not having had the opportunity of examining a 

 specimen himself, and fearing to rely too much 

 on a figure accompanied by a slight description. 

 It is one of the smaller Tortoises, and is a ter- 

 restrial species ; but its native country seems to 

 be not distinctly known. Seba calls it Brasihan; 

 but Thunberg, who has described it in the eighth 

 volume of the new Swedish Transactions, affirms 

 that the specimen he possessed came from the 

 East Indies, though he knew not its native coun- 

 try. The length of this anii^al is about three or 

 four inches only : the shell is moderately convex, 

 |:he scutella of a subquadrate form, broader than 



