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at anterior edge of orbit contained in body length 10.3-10.6 times in 

 vicina, 12.0-14.4 times in stejnegeri) , and by the plastral pattern. 

 Distinguished from decorata by the absence of markings on the carapace 

 and by the nature of the plastral pattern. 



Recorded specimens. — F.M.N.H. Nos. 5976-5978, from Sanchez, 

 Dominican Republic; M.C.Z. Nos. 43651-43654, from Puerto Plata, 

 Dominican Republic; M.C.Z. Nos. 1891-2, a, b, c, from "Haiti"; 

 U.S.N.M. Nos. 80932-80933, from Torbec, Haiti, 1929, C. R. Orcutt; 

 U.S.N.M. No. 82565, from Cayes, Haiti, 1929, C. R. Orcutt. 



Figure 119. — Pseudemys decorata: Venter. Same specimen as shown in fig. 118. 



Order LORICATA 

 Family CROCODYLIDAE 



Genus CROCODYLUS Laurenti 



1768. Crocodylus Laurenti, Synopsis reptilium, p. 53 (type, C. niloticus = 

 Lacerta crocodilus Linnaeus, in part). 



CROCODYLUS ACUTUS Cuvier 



Figure 120 



1807. Crocodylus acutus Cuvier, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat., vol. 10, p. 55, pi. 1, 

 figs. 3, 14; pi. 2, fig. 5.— Geoffroy, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat,, vol. 10, p. 70, 

 1807. — Dumeril and Bibron, Erp6tologie g6ncrale, vol. 3, p. 119, 1836. — 

 Cocteau, in de la Sagra's Historia fisica, politica y natural de la isla de Cuba, 

 vol. 4, Reptiles, p. 62, pi. 5, 1843. — Strauch, Synopsis der gegenwartig 

 lebenden Crocodiliden . . . pp. 56, 102, 1866. — Wyman, Amer. Journ. Sci. 



