TESTUDO TENTORIA, Bell. 
Test& ovath, globosi; scutis nigris, luteo radiatis; vertebralibus conicis, 
acutis, areolis parvis; scuto nuchali exiguo, brevissimo, revoluto. 
Testudo tentoria . Bell, Zool. Journ. iii. p. 420. Tab. Sup. xxiv. 
Testudo geometrica (3. Gray, Syn. Rept. p. 12. 
Habitat in Africh? 
Mus. nostr. 
Descriptio. Testa solida, alta, late ovata, margine denticulato. Scuta dorsalia sulcata, 
nigra, luteo radiata; radiis marginem versus dilatis : vertebralia elevata, conica, 
acuta, areolis minimis ad apicem terminata; primum pentagonum, antice acutum ; 
secundum hexagonum, postice latius; tertium hexagonum, lateribus fere aequis; 
quartum hexagonum, postice angustius, reliquis altius; quintum pentagonum : 
costalia gibbosa, areolis elevatis : marginalia gibbosa, tria anteriora et tria posteriora 
prominentia, angulata; areolae ad angulum posticum positae. Scutum nuchale 
brevissimum, revolutum : caudale pentagonum, prominens. Sternum medio fuscum, 
lateribus flavis; postice acute emarginatum. Scuta analia angulata, ad marginem 
testae superioris attinentia. 
Testae osseae mensura. 
unc. lin. 
Dorsi longitudo.4 2 
Latitudo ejusdem.3 3 
Altitudo.2 7 
I am constrained to give but a very imperfect description of this singular 
species, which was first made known by myself in the Zoological Journal, 
and figured in the supplementary Plates of that work. I have seen but one 
