ORDER CHELOXIA. 17 



Such is one great species of the Mediterranean — 



The Coriaceous Turtle. Testudo Coriacea. L. 

 Lacep. I. iii. Schoepf. xxviii. 



Its oval carapace, and pointed behind, presents three 

 longitudinal ridges projecting through the hide.* 



The Chelydes. Chelys. Dumeril.t 



Resemble the emydes in the feet and claws. The 

 envelope is much too small to receive the head and 

 feet, which have considerable volume. The nose is 

 prolonged into a small trunk ; but the most marked 

 of their characters is the mouth, which is cleft cross- 

 wise, not being armed with a horny beak, like the 

 other Chelonians, but resembling that of certain 

 batracians, particularly the pipa. 



Fimbriated Tortoise. Testudo Fimhriata. Gm. 

 Bruguieres Journ. d'Hist. Nat. I. xiii. Schoepf 

 xxi. 



The carapace bristling, with pyramidal eminences j 

 the body edged all round with an unequally indented 

 fringe : it is found in Guiana. 



■ A<i(l, iJcrmocheUa adanlica, Lesueur. 



f Merrem has preferred for this genus the barbarous name of Mata- 



MATA. 



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