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CATALOGUE OF SHIELD REPTILES. 



truncated behind ; the pectoral, and especially the femoral 

 plates, subtrigoual, moderately broad at the inner margin. 

 Head brown, minute and closely pale-dotted, with a short 

 oblitjue dark-edged streak on the hinder margin of the 

 upper beak ; throat pale-dotted ; thorax brown, with a few 

 brown dots and a small dark spot at the apex of each dor- 

 sal and marginal shield ; under side and hinder edge of 

 marginal shields pale brown varied and lined ; sternum pale, 

 slightly dotted and marbled with blackish brown. 

 Hah. North America. 



a. In spirits (young). Female. Shell oblong, broad. 

 Tail small, conical. Shield granular, rounded, entire. 

 Head bro'ivn, minutely darker dotted ; temples with 

 three streaks of small white spots from the hinder 

 edge of the orbit ; chin white streaked and dotted ; 

 throat with three distant very narrow white streaks. 

 North America, East Florida {E. Doubleday). 



6. Kinostemon Hippocrepis. The Eyebrowed Swanka. 



Sternum oblong, anterior lobe broad, rounded, posterior 

 lobe broad, rather truncated behind ; gular plates very 

 narrow ; pectoral and femoral jilates triangular, narrow, 

 reduced nearly to a point on the inner margin. Head 

 brown, minutely dotted, with a broad pale streak from the 

 nostril over the eyes to the side of the occiput ; temple 

 with a second similar streak from the lower part of the 

 hinder edge of the orbit ; throat brown; Shell of young- 

 brown, with a few brown dots and a small dark spot at the 

 apex of each dorsal and marginal shield, and a small pale 

 spot on the edge of each marginal shield. Sternum pale 

 brown, shield darker edged ; of adult imiform olive-brown, 

 with black edges to the shields ; beneath yellowish brown, 

 darker varied. 



Hub. North America ; New Orleans (ilf. iSa/Ze). 



a, h. In spirits. New Orleans. M. Salle's Collection. 



c. Half-grown (stuffed). The broad yellow band margining 

 the upper part of the nose and crown is distinct, but 

 the streaks on the temple are not to be observed in its 

 ])reseut state. The dorsal and marginal shields are 

 uniform brown, ^vith a narrow margin, especially on 

 the hinder edge. The pectoral and abdominal plates 

 are united together in this specimen, so that the front 

 lobe of the sternum must have been perfectly immove- 

 able. North America. 



7. Kinosternou leucostomum. The White-Mouthed 

 Swanka. 



Carapace ovate, smooth, rather convex, reddish-brown, 

 hinder part slightly, back very shghtly keeled ; sternum 

 not notched in front, vellow-broT^^l. Head moderately 



large, depressed ; jaws white ; head and neck with some 

 reddish-yellow spots. 



Cinosternon leucostomum. Hum. ^ Bib. Erp. Gen. ii. .5"0 ; 

 Cat. Rej)t. Mus. H. Nat. 17. 



Hab. North America ; New Orleans ; Mexico; Central 

 America ; Rio Suraasiuta (Morelet) ; New Grenada. 



Doubtful Species. 



8. Cinosternon hirtipes, Wagler, Sijst. t. 5. f. 29, 30 ; 

 Icon. Am ph. t. 30. 

 Bum. S)- Bib. Erp. Gui. ii. 570 ? ; Cat. Meth. R. 17. 



Hab. America. Brazils ? 



15. AEOMOCHELYS. 



Head moderate, subquadrangular, pyramidal, covered 

 with a hard skin. Chin bearded. Feet and tail with a 

 few scattered scales. Toes 5 ■ 4, webbed. Tail of males 

 clawed. Shell ovate, keeled. Sternum truncated in front, 

 nicked behind ; middle lobe covered by the abdominal 

 plates, fixed by a bony symphysis to the thorax ; front and 

 hinder lobes narrow, more or less mobile and articulated to 

 the middle lobe. Sternal shields 1 1 ; gular pair united, 

 rudimentary, linear ; the pectoral shields large, oblong, 

 four-sided, transverse ; axillary and inguinal plates very 

 large, covering the suture. America. Odoriferous. 



Kinosternou, sp.. Gray. 

 Cistudo, sp.. Say. 

 Terrapeue, sp., Merrem. 

 Sternotherus, sp., Bell, Zool. Journ. ii. 

 Staurotypus, sp., Dum. ijf- Bib. 



1. Aromochelys odoratuin. The Stink-Pot. 



Shell oblong, convex, rounded, not or very obscurely 

 keeled ; shields brown, dark-spotted ; the gular plates tri- 

 angular ; the humeral plate rather oblique. Head moderate, 

 with a white streak from the nostril over the eye, and 

 continued on the side of the neck ; a second streak from the 

 hinder end of the upper jaw ; neck with distant narrow 

 yellow streaks. 



Kinostemon odoratum. Gray, Syn. Kept. 35. t. 6. f. 1 ; 

 Cat. Tort. B.M. 34. 



Boiiap. Obs. Cup. R. A. ii. 168. 

 Testudo odorata, Latr. Rept. i. 122. 

 Baud. Rept. ii. 189. t. 24. f. 3. 

 Leconte, Ann. Lye. N. Y. iii. 122. 

 Cistudo odorata. Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philud. iv. 

 2(IC, 216. 



Holbrook, N. A. Herpet. iii. 29. t. 4 ; ed. 2. i. 133. 



t. 22. 

 Be Kay, Rept. N. York, 22. t. 7. f. 13. 

 Testudo Pennsylvanica, var., Schoepff. Test. 1 10. t. 24. f. B. 



