TESTUDO SIGNATA, Wallbaum. 
Test & ovatci, depress ;! ; scutis disci subelevatis, luteis, piceo maculatis, areolis 
depressis; scutis marginalibus posticis dentatis, revolutis ; scuto nuchali brevi, 
quadrato. 
Testudo signata. Wallbaum. —Schoepff, tab. xxviii. p. 120.— Gray, Syn. 
Rept. p. 14. 
Testudo Cafra. Daud. Rept. ii. p. 291. 
Habitat in Africi australi. 
Mus. nostr. 
Descriptio. Testa humilis, fere quinquelateralis, antice truncata, lateribus subparallelis. 
Dorsum depressum, postice gibbosum. Scuta dorsalia omnia lutea, maculis piceis 
notata, quarum centrales rotundae, marginales in fascias radiantes productae, eleva- 
tiuscula, truncata, concentrice sulcata, polita, areolis depressis : vertebralia hexa¬ 
gona, sulco profundo a costalibus separata; quintum gibbosum : costalia lata, sub- 
rectangula; posticum rhomboideum, gibbosum : marginalia anteriora horizontalia ; 
primum angulate prominens ; lateralia carinata, non revoluta ; paria tria posteriora 
dentata, revoluta. Scutum nuchale brevissimum, quadratum, antice subbidentatum: 
caudale angulatum, prominens. Sternum luteum castaneo-nebulosum, radiis paucis 
piceis, margine postico quadridentato, obtuse emarginato. Scuta analia ad marginem 
testee superioris fere attinentia. 
Testee ossece mensura. 
unc. iin. 
Longitudo dorsi.3 5 
Latitudo ejusdem. 2 7 
Altitudo. 1 4 
This elegant little species was first described by Wallbaum, and after him 
by Schoepfi, who has given a coarse and daubed, but tolerably characteristic 
figure of it. The description given by Daudin, under the head “ Testudo 
