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Carapace olive or brown, marbled with yellow. Of young speci- 

 mens the limbs are margined with yellow; inferiorly yellow 

 with a dark brown spot on hand and foot. Length of shell 

 noo mm. 



Nom. in dig. Firm (Borneo). 



Habitat: Sumatra (Mouth of the Si Pare Pare river in 

 Batu Bahra); Biliton; Java sea! (Batavia); Madura; Flores!; 



Fig. n6. Chelonia mydas (L.). 



Bornean seas (Sandakan); Celebes (Gorontalo, Manado, Kandari, 

 Macassar!); Obi!; Ambon!; Banda!; Aru Islands; New Guinea 

 (Humboldt Bay!). Torres Straits; N. Australia; Formosa; Malay 

 Peninsula; West Indies; Brazil; African coast; Atlantic Ocean. 

 The Green Turtle is rather common in the Indian Ocean 

 and much fished for, because its flesh is edible. It is herbivorous. 



2. Chelonia imbricata (L.). 



Testudo imbricata, Linne, Syst. Nat. I 1766, p. 350. 



Chelonc imbricata^ Boulenger, Cat. Chel. 1889, p. 183 (s. syn.). 



Chelonia imbricata, Siebenrock, Zool. Jahrb. Suppl. X 1909, p. 547 (s. syn.). 



Dorsal shields smooth, strongly imbricate, in old specimens 

 juxtaposed; in young ones with three keels, the vertebrals 



