FIERCE TORTOISE. 



may stand together on its shell : the pieces com- 

 posing the disk are suhquadrate ; those of the bor- 

 der parallelogrammic : the colour variegated with 

 black and green ; the lower shell blackish, spotted 

 with white. 



FIERCE TORTOISE. 



TcsUulo Ferox. T. testa cartilaginea ovata, pcdum unguibus 



tribus, narihus tubulatis promincntibus. Lin. Syst. Nat, Gmel. 



p. 1039. Pe/in. Act. Angf. 6\.p. 2()6. t. 10. 

 Tortoise with ovate, cartilaginous shell, three claws on the feet, 



and tubvilar, prominent nostrils. 

 'iVstudo rostrata? T. testa orbwulari crcata, monopkylla, cori- 



acea, carinata, rvgis obliqitis e pit net is eletatis striata, scab) a. 



Schoepf. Test. 93. /. 20 ?' 

 T. pcdibus palmatis, testa Integra, carinata, elevato-striata, scabra f 



Thunbcrg. Nov. Act. Acad. Suec. 8. p. 179- 

 T. cartilaginea? Eoddaert. Schr. Eerl. Nat. 3. p. 265. 

 T. Boddaerti ? Schneid. Leipz. Mag. z. Nat. % Oec. 1786. 

 T. triunguis ? Forsk. Fn. Arab. 9. 

 T, membranacea ? Blumenb. Natur.p. 257. 



THIS remarkable species is distinguished by the 

 unusual nature of its shield, which is hard or 

 osseous on the middle part only, while the edges 

 gradually degenerate into a flexible coriaceous 

 verge : this shield is obscurely marked with five 

 or six transverse bands, and granulated with small 

 warts or prominences, which gradually enlarge as 

 they approach the leathery or flexible edge : the 

 head is rather small, and of an unusual shape, 

 being somewhat trigonal, with the snout very 

 much lengthened, and the upper part drawn out, 

 as it were, into a subcylindric form, terminated 





