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CHELONURA TEMMI.NCKII. 



CHELONURA TEMMINCKII. 



CHELONURA SERPENTINA. 



1. Head very large, triangular, covered with Head smaller, oval, covered with closely ad- 

 plates; upper mandible "vulturiform," hook- herent skin above and a few small plates at 

 ed in front, the hook descending at a riglit the sides; hook of the upper mandible re- 

 angle from the frontal plane, and with a curved; no fossette for the tooth of the lower 

 fossette for the tooth of the lower jaw. jaw. 



2. Skin of neck is granulated, and has warty Skin of neck granulated, no spiny warts, but 

 excrescences, horny at their tips. with two flexible long warts at the chin. 



3. Marginal plates thirty-one; a double series Marginal plates twenty-five, single series, 

 at the sides. 



4. Tail round, and covered with three rows Tail more or less oval, surmounted with a 

 of circular or oval plates, more or less pro- crest of wedge-shaped tubercles, diminish- 

 minent in the centre. ing in size towards the tip. 



5. Dimensions — Length of head, 8 inches. 

 Length of neck, 3^ inches. 

 Circumference of neck, 1 foot 10 inches. 

 Length of shell, 1 foot 10 inches. 

 Length of sternum, 1 foot 4 inches. 

 Length of tail beyond anus, 1 foot 2j inches. 



Dimensions — Length of head, 3^ inches. 

 Length of neck, 3^ inches. 

 Circumference of neck, 7^ inches. 

 Length of shell, 9 inches. 

 Length of sternum, 8 inches. 

 Length of tail beyond anus, 2| inches. 



