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animal, the shell not exceeding the size of a half- 

 crown piece. Its native place is not mentioned. 

 Its character given hy Thunberg is T. testa pla- 

 niuscula, antice retusa, dorso carinato, subtus albo 

 nigroque varia. Pedes palmati ; ungues acuti. 



GALEATED TORTOISE. 



Tcstudo Galeata, T, testa depressa omli, dorsi scutellis trihus 

 intermediis acute carinatis, marginis scutellis vigiiiti quatuor. 

 Schoej)f, Test, p, 12. t. 3,f. 1. 



Tortoise with depressed oval shell, with the three middle scu- 

 tella sharply carinated, and twenty-four marginal pieces. 



Testudo scabra, Retzius, 



The species of Tortoise really intended by Lin- 

 nseus under the title of scabra, and very briefly 

 described in the Systema Naturae, it would be 

 utterly in vain to determine; since the characters 

 given will apply equally to several different kinds; 

 but the animal supposed b}'^ Mr. Retzius, to be the 

 T. scabra of Linn^us, is a small species, the shell 

 of which measures about two inches and a half in 

 length and near two inches in breadth, and rises 

 into a convexity of about one inch : its colour is 

 a pale brown, and it consists of thirteen scutella, 

 the middle range of which is remarkably broad, 

 and strongly carinated in the middle: all are 

 variegated and roughened with blackish oblong 

 points or elevated lines, directed towards the 

 centre, the margins being smooth, blackish, and 

 slightly striated towards the sutures : in some 



