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KINOSTERNO N.—Spix. Dnmeril et Blhron. 



Genus Kinosternon. — Characters. Head sub-triangular, pyramidal, covered 

 with a single plate; jaws hooked, warts at the chin; marginal plates twenty-three; 

 sternum subdivided into three sections, anterior and posterior movable, central 

 fixed; plates of sternmii, eleven; supplemental plates very large; tail long. 



KINOSTERNON PENNSYLVANICUM.— E^/u^arrfs. 



Plate XXI. 



Characters. Head large, upper and lower jaw hooked; shell oval, smooth, 

 ecarinate, entire; vertebral plates depressed, sub-imbricate; sternum of three 

 pieces, anterior and posterior sections movable, central section fixed. 



Stnontmes. Testudo lutaria Pennsylvanica, Edtvards, Glean. Nat. Hist., part ii. p. 77, 

 tab. cclxxxvi. 

 Testudo Pennsylvanica, Gmelln, Syst. Nat. Lin., torn. i. pars iii. p. 1042. 

 La tortue rougeatre, Laciplde, Quad. Ovip., torn. i. p. 132. 

 Mud tortoise, Pennant, Arc. Zool., suppl. p. SO. 



Testudo Pennsylvanica, Schoepff, Hist. Test., p. 107, tab. xxiv. fig. A. 

 Testudo Pennsylvanica, LatrciUe, Hist. Nat. des Rep., torn. i. p. 133. 

 Testudo Pennsylvanica, Daudin, Hist. Nat. des Rep., torn. ii. p. 1S3. 

 Testudo Pennsylvanica, Shaw, Gen. Zoo)., vol. iii. p. 60, pi. xiv. fig. 2. 

 Terrapene Pennsylvanica, Merrein, Versuch. eines Syst. der Amphib., p. 27. 

 Emys Pennsylvanica, Schweigger, Prod. Arch. Konigsb., vol. i. p. 436. 



