17. ciNixrs. 



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1. Cinixys erosa. 



Testudo donticulata (nan Z.), Shajc, Zool. iii. p. 59, pi. xiii, (1802). 



erosa, Sdnoeiyy. Proclr. p. 52 (1H14). 



Kinixvs castanea, Bell, Tr. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 398, pi. xvii. fig. 1 



(1827). 

 erosa, Grat/, Si/n. Mept. p. 10 (1831); Dum. ^- liibr. ii. p. 105 



(1835) ; Grmf, Cat. Tort. p. 12 (1844), and Sh. licpt. i. p. 13 



(1855), atul Proc. Zool. Soc. 1803, p. 190 ; Strauch, Chelm. Stud. 



p. 39 (18(i5) ; Gray, Suppl. Cat. Sh. licpf. i. p. 14 (1870) ; L'oetfy. 



Ber. Senckenb. Ge's. 1888, p. 12. 



denticulata. Hallow. Jotirn. Ac. Fhilad. viii. p. 101, pis. viii. & 



ix. (ia39). 



Fig. 40. 



Skull of Cinixys erosa. 



Anterior and posterior margins of carapace strongly reverted and 

 dentated, serrated and spinose in the young ; posterior profile of 



