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TESTUDmiDiE. 



15. CYCLEMYS. 



Terrapene, part., Men-em. Tent. p. 27 (1820) ; Sell, Zool. Jouni. ii. 



p. 308 (1825) ; Fifzhig. K Classif. Eept. p. 6 (1826) ; Strauch, 



CheJon. Stud. p. 2o (1862). 

 Kiuo;^teruon, part., Bell, I. c. p. 302. 

 Sternotlia3nis, part., Bell, I. c. p. 305. 



Emys, part., TVat/ler, Si/st. Amph. p. 138 (1830) ; Strauch, I. c. p. 27. 

 Cit^tudo, part., Gray, Syn. liept. p. 17 (1831); Du7n. S,- Bihr. ii, 



p. 207 (1834) ; Gray, Cat. Tort. p. 29 (1844). 

 Cyclemys, Bell, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1834. p. 117 ; Gray, Cat. S/i. liepf. 



i. p. 42 (1855); Giinth. JRept. Brit. Ind. p. 15 (1864); Gray, 



Suppl. Cat. Sh. Rept. i. p. 22 (1870). 

 Cuora, Gray, Cat. Sh. Bept. i, p. 41 ; Giinth. Z. c, p. 11 ; Gray, Suppl. 



p. 21. 

 Pyxidea, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 175 ; Giinth. I. c. p. 16 ; 



Gray, Suppl. p. 20. 

 Cistociemmys, G?'ay, II. cc. 

 Pyxiclemmys, Gray, II. cc. pp. 176, 20. 

 Notoclielys,"^ Gray,' II. cc. pp. 177, 21 ; Giinth. I. c. p. 17. 



Fig. 36. 



Skull of Cyclemys amboinenshs. (From Gray, P.Z. S. 1869.) 



Neural plates mostly hexagonal, short-sided behind. Plastron 

 united to carapace by ligament, and more or less distinctly divided, 

 in the adult, into t'wo lobes moving upon a ligamentous hinge 

 between the hyo- and the hypoplastra ; botli the latter bones con- 

 tributing to the formation of the bridge ; cntoplastron intersected 

 by the humero-pcctoral suture. Skull with a bony temporal arch ; 



