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STERNOTHtER US.—BelL 



Genus Sternoth^rus. — Characters. Head subquadrangular, pyramidal, 

 covered in front with a single plate; warts on the chin; marginal plates twenty- 

 three; sternum cruciform, bivalve, anterior valve only moveable; supplemental 

 plates contiguous, placed on the sterno-costal suture; anterior extremity with five 

 nails, posterior with four. 



STERNOTH^RUS ODORATUS.— 5osc. 



' Plate IV. 



Characters. Head large, snout pointed; shell oval, entire, shghtly carinate; 

 sternum rounded in front, emarginate behind, covered with eleven plates, bivalve, 

 the anterior valve moveable, posterior fixed. 



Synonymes. Testudo pennsylvanica, sterno immobile, Schoepf, Hist. Test, p. 110. 

 Testudo odorata, Bosc, MSS. communicated to Latreille. 

 Testudo odorata, Latr., Hist. Nat. Rept, tom. i. p. 122, tab. xxiv. fig. B. 

 Testudo odorata, Baud., Hist. Nat. des Rept. tom. ii. p. 189, tab. xxiv. fig. 5. 

 Testudo glutinata, Daicd., Loc. Cit., tom. ii. p. 194, tab. xxiv. fig. 4. 

 La tortue odorante, Bosc, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., tom. 34, p. 267. 

 Terrapene odorata, et Boscii, Merr., Versuch eines Syst. der Rept, p. 26. 

 Cistuda odorata, Say, Jour. Acad. Nat. Scien. Philad., vol. iv. p. 216. 

 Emys odorata, Schweig., Prod. Arch. Konigsb., vol. i. p. 437. 

 Testudo odorata, Leconte, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., vol. iii. p. 122. 



