268. TESTUBO.. 
watch, which is her call for the male. Inhab- 
its oh wainscoting and wooden furniture. 
See MS. P. 
3—1. T'estupo. Spec. 35. 
Section A. Legs fin-form, the foremost longest. 
Sea-turtles. 
coriacea, (leather-shell torteise,) shell coriaceous, 
longitudinally grooved. Sometimes tuberculate. 
Sometimes 6 feet long and three broad. Not 
eatable. 
mydas, (green turtle,) fore part two-clawed 3 hind 
feet solitary ; shell oval. Beak broad or narrow. 
Flesh eatable, green. 
‘mbricata, (shell tortoise,) fore and hind feet two- 
clawed ; shell plates lax, lying over each other. 
These small plates are the tortuise-shells of the 
shops. 
Section B. Feet er: 3 Shell joined to the 
chest by a membrane, and propped each side in 
the middle, by two processes vf the chest. 
clausa, (woods turtle,) scutels of the disk keeled ;. 
under shell closing, so that the whole bedy is 
shut in a water-tight box. 
pensylvanieu, fore feet five- clawed, bind ones four ; 
tail tipped with a sharp horn. 
Section ©. Feet clavate, clawed; shell convex. 
joined to the chest by bony commissures. 
denticulata, (heart-tortoise,) feet subdigitate ; shell 
round-cordate, with the margin ° irregularly 
feogoped, 
neleagris, (speckled tortoise,) feet digitate ; shell 
