32 REPTILES. 



dots ; sternum slightly nicked behind ; head and body black, yel- 

 low-dotted ; tail elongate. 



a. Shell only, adult, brown, yellow-dotted. S. Europe. 



b. Shell and dry animal, brown, yellow-dotted, 6^ inches. Europe 



c. Young, brown, paler rayed, hinder half only with dry animal. 



T. pulchella, Schoepf. Presented by Thomas Bell, Esq. 



d. Young, in spirits. Albania. Presented by W. W. Saunders, 



Esq. 



c. Shell depressed, toothed. Cyclemys. 



The Dhor. Cistuda dentata. Emys dentata, Gray, Illust. 

 Ind. Zool. t, , young. E. Dhor or E. dentata, Gray, Syn. 



20, t. 8, 9. E. Hassehii, Boie, Mm. Leyd., young. E. Spengleri, 

 var. Schlegel, F. Jap. 51. Cyclemys orbieulata, Bell. Pr. Zool. 

 Soc. 1824, 17, adult. Cis. Diardi, Bum. et Bib. E. G. ii. 227. 



Shell suborbicular, back flattened, keeled, hinder edge toothed 

 sternal shields yellow, brown-rayed. 



a. Young, in spirits. Suborbicular, depressed, brown, black-dot- 



ted, bluntly keeled, edge acutely toothed, sides of neck and 

 throat yellow-lined, feet yellow-spotted. Java. Presented 

 by Thomas Bell, Esq. 



b. Young, in spirits. Java. From the Leyden Museum. 



6. Kinosternon, Spix. TeiTapene, Merrem. Sternotherus, Bell. 



Head moderate, covered with a hard thin skin. Chin bearded. 

 Feet and tail nearly naked, with a few scattered scales. Shell 

 ovate. Sternum rounded in front or two-lobed behind, middle 

 lobe covered by the abdominal plates, fixed by a bony symphysis 

 to the thorax, front and hinder lobe more or less free, articulated 

 to the middle lobe: sternal shields 11 : gular pair united. Axil- 

 lary and especially the inguinal plates very large, covering the 

 suture. America. 



a. Sternum lobes as broad as the opening, rounded before and 



acute and entire behind. K. scorpoides. 



b. Sternum lobes narrower than the opening, nicked behind. K. 

 oblongum, and K. Peunsylvanicum. 



c. Sternum lobes much narrower than the opening, truncated be- 



hind. K. odoratum. 



d. Sternum lobes very narrow, acute at each end. K. triporcatuni. 



a. Sternum lobes as broad as the opening, rounded in front, entire 



behind. Swanka. 



The Swanka. Kinosternon scorpiodes, Gray, Syn. R. 24. 

 Wagler, Syst. 137, t. 5,/. 31—43. Bell. Test. t. f. . Dum. 

 et Bib. E. G. ii. 365. K. Shavianum, Bell. Zool. Journ. ii. 304. 

 K. longicaudatum, and K. brevicaudatum, Spix, Braz. t. 12, 13. 



