268 TESTUD0. 



watch, which is her call for the male, Inhab- 

 its old wainscoting and wooden furniture. 

 See MS. P. 



1. TESTUDO. Spec. 35. 



Section A. Legs fin-form? the foremost longest* 

 Sea-turtles. 



coriacea, (leather-shell tortoise,) shell coriaceous, 



longitudinally grooved, Sometimes tuberculate. 



Sometimes 6 feet long and three broad. Not 



eatable. 

 mydas 9 (green -turtle,) fore part two-clawed ; hind 



feet solitary ; shell oval. Beak broad or narrow, 



Flesh eatable, green. 

 'imbricata,. (shell tortoise,) fore and hind feet two- 



clawed ; -shell plates lax, lying over each other. 



These small plates are the tortoise-shells of the 



shops. 



Section B. Feet palmate ; shell joined to the 

 chest by a membrane, and propped &uch side in 

 the middle, by two processes iff the chest. 



ij (woods turtle,) scutels of the JiLsk keeled ;-_ 

 under shell closing, so that the whole body is 

 shut in a water-tight box. 



fjensylvanica,fort feet five-clawed, hind ones fours 

 tail tipped with a sharp horn. 



Section C, Feet clavate, clawed; shell convex. 

 joined to the chest by bony commissures. 



denticulata, (heart tortoise,) feet subdigitate ; shell 

 round-cordate, with the margin irregularly 

 scooped. 



mcleagris, (speckled tortoise^) feet digitate : shell 



