Stejncijer Some Generic Nama* of Turtle*, 237 



Kinosternon Spix. 



1824. Kinosternon Spix, Testud. Brasil., p. 17 (type K. Ion- 



gicaudatum -f- J\. brevicaudatum = Testudo scorpi- 

 oides = Terrapene tricaritiata MerreraJ. 



1825. Sternotherus Gray, Ann. Philos. (n. s.) X, Sep., p. 211 



(type 6*. odoratus). 



1825. jSteruotlMerus Bell, Zool. Journ., II, p. 305 (type S. 

 odoratus). 



1829. Stemoteirits Gravenhorst, Delic. Mus. Vratislav., p. 



17 (emend.). 



1855. Aromochelys Gray, Cat. Shield Rept. Brit. Mus., I, p. 

 46 (A. odor at um). 



Pelusios Wagler. 



1830. Pelusios Wagler, Nat. Syst. Amph., p. 137 (type IZmys 



castanea -j_ E. subniyra = Terrapene nigricans 

 Merrera). 



1831. Sternotherus Gray, Synops. Rept., p. 37 (same type) 



(not of 1825). 



Cyclemys Bell, 



1830. Stemothatrus Wagler, Nat. Syst. Ampb., p. 137 (type 

 S. trifasciatus) (not of Bell 1825). 



1834. Cyclemys Bell, Proc. Zooi. Soc. London, 1834, p. 17 

 (type C. orbwulata), 



II. 



Gray's generic name Nicoria is plainly untenable being ante 

 dated by the same author's Geoemyda. 



The type of the latter has been believed to be G. 

 spinosa, but as I am going to show, this assumption is entirely 

 erroneous. The type of Qeo&nyda, on the contrary, is un 

 doubtedly G. spengleri which is so characterized in the original 

 communication establishing the name in the following words 

 (Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1834, p. 99): 



"Specimens were exhibited of several Reptiles, which were 

 accompanied by notes by Mr. Gray. These notes were read: 



