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Carapace olive or brown, marbled with yellow. Of young speci- 

 mens the limbs are margined with yellow; inferiorly yellow 

 with a dark brown spot on hand and foot. Length of shell 

 1 100 mm. 



Nom. indig. Pinu (Borneo). 



Habitat: Sumatra (Mouth of the Si Pare Pare river in 

 Batu Bahra); Biliton; Java sea! (Batavia) ; Madura; Flores!; 



Fig. 1 1 6. Chelonia i/iydas (L.). 



Bornean seas (Sandakan); Celebes (Gorontalo, Manado, Kandari, 

 Macassar!); Obi!; Ambon!; Banda!; Aru Islands; New Guinea 

 (Humboldt Bay!). — Torres Straits; N. Australia; Formosa; Malay 

 Peninsula; West Indies; Brazil; African coast; Atlantic Ocean. 

 The Green Turtle is rather common in the Indian Ocean 

 and much fished for, because its flesh is edible. It is herbivorous. 



2. Chelonia imbricata (L.). 



Testudo imbricata^ Linne, Syst. Nat. I 1766, p. 350. 



Chelotie imbricata^ Boulenger, Cat. Chel. 1889, p. 183 (s. syn.). 



Chelonia imbricata^ Siebeniock, Zool. Jahrb. Suppl. X 1909, p. 547 (s. syn.). 



Dorsal shields smooth, strongly imbricate, in old specimens 

 juxtaposed; in young ones with three keels, the vertebrals 



