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TESTUDINATA. 



Testudo tabulata Walbaum. 



Abundant in the market at Port of Spain, Trinidad. Secured also at 

 St. Vincent and St. Lucia. It feeds readily in captivity and is I^ept about 

 the iiouses and carried from place to place much as the more common 

 domestic animals. 



Emys rugosa Shaw ; Gray. 



From the markets at San Juan, Porto Rico, and from Cuba. 



CiNOSTERNUM sp. 



A small turtle, sent by Prof. Felipe Poey, of Havana, possesses charac- 

 ters that separate it from both of the species, C. pennsylvanicum and C. 

 leucosto'inum, which it approaches most nearly. 



It is elongate ; the snout is narrower and more pointed than that of the 

 first mentioned species. The greatest length of the carapace is exactly 

 four, its greatest width two and three-fourths, behind the middle, the 

 greatest length of the plastron three and nine-tenths, and the width of the 

 plastron across the pectoral shields is one and nine-tenths inches. Ante- 

 riorly the plastron is rounded ; posteriorly it is truncate, with a shallow 

 notch between the anal shields. The pair of pectoral shields, like the 

 pair of preanals, meet on the median line in a suture of about three-eighths 

 of an inch. A single pair of barbels close together under the lower jaw. 



Color light yellowish-olive with darker margins to the shields. Head 

 sprinkled with light spots. A narrow streak of light color passes around 

 the snout on the rostral angle above the eye and along the side of the 

 head to the neck. 



Chelonia mydas L.; Schweigger. 



At certain feeding grounds among the leeward islands a great many of 

 these turtles are taken for shipment to various ports. In the same resorts 

 "Loggerheads," "Shell turtles," and "Trunkbacks " are said to occur. 



CROCODILIA. 



Crocodiltjs rhombifer Cuv. 

 From Cuba. 



Crocodilus americanus Schneid. 

 The collections contain specimens from Jamaica, Hayti and Cuba. 



