70 



I I M B R FATED TO 11TO I is' E. 



Tesfudb Fimbriata. T. testa avail subcoiivexa trifatium carinattt r 



pcdibus subdigitatis, naso cylindrico probostideo , callo vtrinquc 



fottbriato. Brug uicrejourn. d'Hist. Nat. No. f . p. 253.pl. 13. 



(T. Matamala.) 

 Tprtoisi' with oval, subconvex, triply carinated shell, subdigi- 



tatcd i'cet, cylindric snout, and neck timbriatcd on each 



side. 

 Tcstudo hmbriata. T. testa striata et ech'muta, fronte callosa 



triloba. Schneid. Schildkr. p. 34p. 

 Tcstudo torrestris major, putamine chinato et striato, s. Rapa- 



ra'pa. Barrere. Fr. Equin. p. l6'0. 

 Tcstudo scorpioidcs ? T, pedibiis xiibdigifatix, fronte callosa tri- 



loba, caudn unguiculata. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 352. 



THIS is an animal of a very singular and un- 

 pleasing appearance. It was first described by 

 Mons. Bruguiere in the Journal d'Histoirc Natu~ 

 relle, published at Paris in the year 1792. The 

 length of the shell is about fifteen inches or more, 

 and its breadth eleven, but the length of the whole 

 animal from the nose to the end of the tail is 

 two feet three inches. The head is large and 

 flat, rounded in front, and edged on the sides 

 with warty and wrinkled membranaceous appen- 

 dages of about five inches wide, and is also co- 

 vered behind by a three-lobed prominence : the 

 nose is of a shape resembling a proboscis, being 

 cylindric, ten lines long, truncated, pierced by 

 the nostrils, at the tip, where they are separated 

 by a cartilaginous division : the eyes are round, 

 seated at the base of the proboscis, and are ten 

 lines distant from each other : the mandibles are 



