TESTUDO ELEPHANTINA. 
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A. Each vertebral scute is raised into a high protuberance, more or less confined to the 
areolar region, 
a. Carapace broad, black or of a dark brown colour. 
/3. Carapace narrower, horn-coloured. 
B. Vertebral scutes not raised in the middle, flat, 
y. Carapace broad, black. 
Of these three varieties a may be compared to T. nigrita, j3 to T. vici7ia, and y to T. 
elephantopus from the Galapagos Islands. 
The materials which I refer to T. elephantina are the following : — 
Var. a. 
a. An adult stufled male, carapace 39 inches long, in the British Museum. Black. 
h. Skull of the same individual. 
c. An adult male, carapace 49 inches long, from Aldabra, in the British Museum. Brown. 
This specimen is one of the pair imported in 1875 from the Seychelles (see ' Nature,' 
1875, p. 260). 
d. Skeleton of the same individual. 
e. An adult stufled female, carapace 21 \ inches long, in the British Museum. Black. 
f. Skull of the same individual. 
g. Carapace of a young specimen, 14 inches long, in the British Museum. 
Var. j3. 
Ji. Carapace of adult male, 40 inches long, in the British Museum. 
Var. y. 
i". Carapace of an adult male, without scutes, 40 inches long, transferred from the Old 
Collection in Montague House (with cast of head and feet). 
An adult stufled male, carapace 43 inches long, in the Free Public Museum, Liver- 
pool. The Curator, Mr. T. J. Moore, has kindly informed me that this specimen 
was brought alive from the Cape of Good Hope by a collector sent about the year 
1840 by the then Earl of Derby to South Africa to collect living antelopes &c. 
It lived for a few months only at Knowsley. 
k. Skull, bones of the forearm and lower leg, with the majority of the carpals and 
tarsals of the same individual. 
I. Skeleton of a half-grown male (sternum missing), carapace 31 inches long, in the 
British Museum. 
m. Carapace (with sternum) of a half-grown male, 29^ inches long, in the British 
Museum. 
Finally — 
n, A skull, humerus, femur, and scapula of one or more large examples in the British 
