1. CHELY8. 



2iii» 



arch ; jaws very weak, without horuy beak ; eyes extremely sumll ; 

 nose produced into a long tube ; a large dermal appendage iibuve 

 the ear, and smaller ones on the neck and chin. 13igits entirely 

 webbed. 



North-eastern South America. 



Fig. 53. 



Shell of Chelys fimltriata. 



1. Chelys fimbriata. 



Testudo fimbriata, Sclmeid. Schildkr. p. 349 ( 1783) ; Schoepf, Test 



p. 97, pi. xxi. (1792). 

 mataiuata, Bruq^dere, Journ. d^IIist. Nat. 1792, p. 253, pi, xili. ; 



Daud Rept. ii. p. 86, pi. xx. (1802). 

 ? Testudo bispiiiosa, Daud. I. c. p. 94. 

 Chelys fimbriata, Schiveujg. Prodv. p. 25 (1814) ; Sjnx, Test. Bras. 



pi. xi. (1824) ; Strauch, Chelon. Stnd. p. 171 (1862), and Vnih. 



Scluldh: p. 121 (1865); GUnth. Tr. Zool. Sue. xi. p. 215, pi. xlii. 



(1882). 

 ? Chelys bispinosa, Schweigff. I. c. 

 Matamata fimbriata, Men:' Tent. p. 21 (1«20). 

 Chelvs matamata, JVa(/l. Si/st. Amph. pi. iii. figs, i.-xxiv. (1830) ; 



Dion. ^- Bi7»: ii. p. '455, pi. xxi. fig. 2 (1835); Grai/, Cat. Tort. 



p. 44 (1844), afid Sh. Rept. i. p. 60 (1855). 



