CHELONIA. 



Oaretta esculenta, MERE. Tent. Syst. Amph. 1820, 18. 



Chelonia esculenta, WiEGM. & RUTHE, Handb. Zool. 1832, 164. 



Chelonia viridis, TEMM. & SCHLEG. in Sieb. Faun. Jap. 1838, 18. Tab. iv, figs. 

 4-6 ; &, Tab. vi, figs. 1-2. GRAY, Catal. Tort. Croc. & Amphisb. Brit. Mus. 1844, 54 ; 

 &, Catal. Shield. Kept. Brit. Mus. 1, 1855, 75. 



Chelonia (Euehelonia) mydas, TSCH. Faun. Peruan. Herp. 1845, 22. 



La Tonne franche, DUTERTR. Hist. nat. Antil. II, 1662, 227. LABAT, Voy. aux 

 Isles de l'Am6r. I, 1722, 182 & 304. LACEP. Quadr. Ovip. I, 1788, 54. Fig. 1. 

 BONNAT. Encycl. meth. Erpet. 1789, 19. PL in, fig. 2. Bosc. Nouv. Diet, d'hist. 

 nat. XXXIV, 1819, 252. 



La Tort ue franche ou Tortue verte, Guv. Rega. anim. II, 1817, 13; 2d ed. II, 

 1829, 13 ; &, ed. illustr. Rept. 19. 



Tortue de Her, EDW. Hist. nat. Ois. IV. Tab. ecu. 



La Tortue a ecailles vertes, LACEP. Quadr. Ovip. I, 1788, 92. BONNAT. Encycl. 

 meth. Erpet. 1789, 20. 



Testudo marinis viridis, CATESB. Nat. Hist. Carol. II, 1771, 38. Tab. xxxvni. 



Testudinis marinae pullus, SEBA, Thes. nat. I, 1734, 127. Tab. LXIX, fig. 5. 



It remains yet to be proved, whether 



Testudo j'aponica, THTJNB. Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. nya Handl. VIII, 1787, 178. Tab. 

 vii. SCHN. in Schrift. Gesellsch. Naturf. Fr. Berl. X, 266, 

 Caretta thunberyii, MERR. Tent. Syst. Amph. 1820, 19, 



refer to a species identical with that of the West Indies, or whether 

 it is the one met by Siebold, on the coast of Japan. The figure given 

 by Thunberg, however, is suggestive of Lepidoclielys olivacea. 



Chelonia pseudomy das, LESS, in Belang. Voy. Ind. Orient. Zool. 1834, 299, 



is also one of those species requiring to be carefully looked into before 

 it can be either admitted as distinct, or referred as a synonym to 

 another. 



2. CHELONIA MACULOSA, Cuv. 



Appears to be a good species, which may, however, prove closely 

 related to that of the Japanese Seas. 



SYN. Chelonia maculosa, Cuv. Regn. Anim. 2d ed. II, 1829, 13 ; &, ed. illustr. 

 Rept. 19. DUM. & BIBR. Erpet. ge"n, II, 1835, 544. 



