17. CINIXYs., 141 
1. Cinixys erosa. 
Testudo denticulata (non L.), Shaw, Zool. iii. p. 59, pl. xiii. (1802). 
erosa, Schweigg. Prodr. p. 52 (1814). 
Kinixys castanea, Bell, Tr. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 398, pl. xvii. fig. 1 
(1827). 
ae, Gray, Syn. Rept. p. 16 (1831); Dum. § Bibr. ii. p. 165 
(1835) ; Gray, Cat. Tort. p. 12 (1844), and Sh. Rept. i. p. 18 
(1855), and Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 196; Strauch, Chelon. Stud. 
p. 89 (1865) ; Gray, Suppl. Cat. Sh. Rept. i. p. 14 (1870) ; Boettg. 
Ber, Senckenb, Ges. 1888, p. 12. 
denticulata, Hallow. Jown, Ac. Philad. yi. p. 161, pls. viii. & 
ix. (1859). 
Fig. 40. 
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Skull of Cinixys erosa. 
Anterior and posterior margins of carapace strongly reverted and 
dentated, serrated and spinose in the young; posterior profile of 
