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STERNOTH^RUS .—Bell. 



Genus Sternoth^rus. — Characters. Head sub-quadrangular, pyramidal, 

 covered in front with a single plate; warts on the chin; marginal plates twenty- 

 three; sternum cruciform, with eleven plates, bivalve, anterior valve only movable; 

 supplemental plates contiguous, placed on the sterno-costal suture; anterior 

 extremity with five nails, posterior with four. 



STERNOTH^RUS ODORATUS.— 5osc. 



Plate XXII. 



Characters. Head large, snout pointed; shell oval, entire, slightly carinate; 

 sternum rounded in front, emarginate behind, covered with eleven plates, bivalve, 

 the anterior valve movable, posterior fixed. 



Stnontmes. Testudo Pennsylvanica, sterno immobile, Schoepff, Hist. Test, p. 110. 

 Testudo odorata, Bosc, MSS. communicated to Latreille. 

 Testudo odorata, Latreille, Hist. Nat. Lept, torn. i. p. 122. 

 Testudo odorata, Daudin, Hist. Nat. des Rept., tom. ii. p. 1S9, tab. xxiv. fig. 5. 

 Testudo glutinata, Daudin, Loc. Cit., tom. ii. p. 194, tab. xxiv. fig. 4. 

 La tortue odorante, Bosc, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., tom. xxxiv. p. 267. 

 Terrapene odorata, et Boscii, Merrem, Versuch eines Syst. dor Ampliib., p. 27. 

 Cistuda odorata, Say, Jour. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., vol. iv. p. 216. 

 Emys odorata, Schweigger, Prod. Arcli. Konigsb., vol. i. p. 437. 

 Testudo odorata, Leconte, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., vol. iii. p. 123. 



