], CHELYs. 209 
arch; jaws very weak, without horny beak ; eyes extremely small ; 
nose produced into a long tube; a large dermal appendage above 
the ear, and smaller ones on the neck and chin. Digits entirely 
webbed. 
North-eastern South America. 
Fig. 53. 
Shell of Chelys fimbriata. 
1. Chelys fimbriata. 
Testudo fimbriata, Schnetd. Schildkr. p. 849 (1783) ; Schoepff, Test 
p- 97, pl. xxi. (1792). 
matamata, Bruguiére, Journ. d’ Hist. Nat. 1792, p. 258, pl. xiii. ; 
Daud. Rept. ii. p. 85, pl. xx. (1802). 
? Testudo bispinosa, Daud. /. ec. p. 94. 
Chelys fimbriata, Schwetgg. Prodr. p. 25 (1814); Spex, Test. Bras. 
pl. xi. (1824); Strauch, Chelon. Stud. p.171 (1862), and Verth. 
Schildkr. p. 121 (1865); Giinth. Tr. Zool. Soc. xi. p. 215, pl. xi. 
(1882). 
? Chelys bispinosa, Schwergg. 1. ¢. 
Matamata fimbriata, Werr. Tent. p. 21 (1820). 
Chelys matamata, Wagl. Syst. Amph. pl. ii. figs, i-xxiv. (1830) ; 
Dum. § Bibr. ii. p. 455, pl. xxi. fig. 2 (1835); Gray, Cat. Tort. 
p. 44 (1844), and Sh. Rept. i. p. 60 (1855). 
