. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. LOVERIDGE AND WILLIAMS: AFRICAN CRYPTODIRA 389 orly covered with a few or many, lar<i:e, unequal, scattered or juxtaposed, strongly imbricate or non-imbricate, more or less pointed (subcircular or pointed in young, subacute in adults) scutes which on anterior edge form a longitudinal series of 5-9 from elbow to outer claw; claws 5, rarely 4 ^; hinder side of thigh without enlarged tubercles; heel with or without well-de- fined spurlike tubercles; claws 4, rarely 3 ^ j tail terminating in a more or less distinct hor
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. LOVERIDGE AND WILLIAMS: AFRICAN CRYPTODIRA 389 orly covered with a few or many, lar<i:e, unequal, scattered or juxtaposed, strongly imbricate or non-imbricate, more or less pointed (subcircular or pointed in young, subacute in adults) scutes which on anterior edge form a longitudinal series of 5-9 from elbow to outer claw; claws 5, rarely 4 ^; hinder side of thigh without enlarged tubercles; heel with or without well-de- fined spurlike tubercles; claws 4, rarely 3 ^ j tail terminating in a more or less distinct hornj^ tubercle that is sometimes much larger in c5 $ . Carapace moderately convex or markedl}^ flattened dorsally, sides sloping, scarely or not (though sometimes deeply ^) notched. Fig. 46. Skull of Kinixys h. helliana ( 10029). Condylobasal length 37 mm. (S. McDowell del.) in nuchal region; anterior margin not or but slightly expanded, not or but slightly reverted, not spinose in young, posterior mar- gin not expanded, not or but slightly reverted, not or but slightly (occasionally moderated"*) serrated, not spinose in young, rear 1 Four in 2 out of 23 tortoises from Uele region of Congo, a third had 4 on one forefoot and 5 on the other (Schmidt :1919 :407) ; four in 3 ( 40011, 40013, 40017) out of 8 Kenya spfcimens, and four on both forefeet of 1 ( 44451) of S Southern Rhodesia tortoises examined by us. This Khodesian tortoise is unusual in that it is the fourth claw that is laclving; four in a juvenile only of a series of at least 6 from Beira (Boulenger : 1907J : 482 and Hewitt: 1935 : 353). The missing claw on each forefoot is represented by a light-colored, rounded tubercle (Battersby in letter of ). All 14 Tanganyika and all 24 Xyasa- land specimens in the have the normal five claws of h. helliana. 2 Three in a Belgian Congo tortoise mentioned by Schmidt (1919 : 407). 3 Deeply notched in an Mtimbuka juvenile ( 50328) as the u
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