TESTUDO YERROXII.— Smith. 
Reptilia. — Plate VIII. Male. 
T test. supra nitro-brunnei, m.uulis, radiisque pallid. odireo-flavi. variegati, ; mfrk Hava, teiS longitu- 
talil”^ inter -a, guta. et anurn ; capita s„„A subflavor podius an^ur.bu. autre. 
gquamis imbricatii m.gui. teetisj se«t» nrargbulib.r, angulum seuto ctabbus formant, bus. 
Longitudo testee 3 unc. 8 lin. . . , 
Colour -The upper surface of the shell liver-brown, vanegated with rays 
and blotches of a colour intermediate between straw and och, re-yellow y e 
under surface yellow, with a broad irregular liver-brown band ^extend g 
from the gular plates to the anus. The yellow blotches 
number, one towards the centre of each of the dorsal and costal plates, 
are very irregular in form, and include not only the whole of ■ 
but also some portion of each plate in front of it. The rays, all of which pro 
ceed from the areola, and extend partly towards the outer, partly ‘»" " ds ‘ « 
inner sides of the plates, are four or five upon each plate, four a. lea t general y 
reach to the edges of the plates near their angles ; the fifth, where it ex a , 
is commonly shorter, and situated between the two externa rajs of eacl 
costal plate'. Each marginal plate has two yellow rays, winch d, verge from 
the aZla and approach or actually reach the point of junct.on with the 
co^lTltes, diverging as they proceed; the areola and outer ed faltl^ a e 
the plates are also yellow ; the areola and lateral edges of the caudal P ate _a 
yellow, and from 'the former, two yellow rays proceed one to each of its 
anterior angles. The brown band, which extends along t ic unt er sui ace, - 
yery irregute or deeply broken on the edges, and in several places variegated 
or clouded by shades of a lighter and brighter tint. Towards the antei tor edge 
of several of the marginal plates beneath, there is a small brown mark, mote 
° ? e s 8 pointed posteriorly, and a few others of a similar form proceed m- 
' ,, from the outer margins of the pectoral and costal plates. The top o 
wrndly fiorn ^ ^ mandible8 dusky yellow ; the neck greentsh- 
the head, and t PP Th(: , e sco i es covering the fore-legs anteriorly 
yellow, freckled w brownish-black, partly greenish-yellow ; 
Form, &c.-Shen, viewed from above, five-sided, anteriorly truncated, 
