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307. CHELYDRA Schweigger. (yédus, turtle ; dep, water.) 
603. C. serpentina (L.). Common SNaprinG TurtLe. Dusky 
brown; head with dark spots. L.25 or more. Canada to Equador, 
everywhere abundant about water. 
308. MACROCHELYS Gray. (jakpos, large; yedus-) 
604. M. temmincki (Harlan), ALiicaTor Snapper. Black- 
ish; head with many fleshy slips. Gulf States, N. to Wis. L. 40 
or more; “ perhaps the most ferocious, and, for its size, the strong- 
est of reptiles.” 
Famity CXXI. KINOSTERNIDA. (Tue Box Turttes.) 
Carapace rather long and narrow, the outline usually rising 
gradually from the front to a point beyond the centre of the shell, 
then abruptly descending; the bulk of the body therefore thrown 
backward ; margin of the carapace turning downward and inward 
rather than outward; plastron proportionally large, covered with 7, 
9 or 11 horny plates, the anterior pair coalescing into one; anterior, 
and sometimes also posterior lobe of plastron, often movable upon 
the fixed central portion ; head pointed ; jaws usually strong; eyes 
far forward ; limbs slender ; -feet short. 
Turtles of small size, chiefly American. 
a. Plastron with its anterior and posterior lobes nearly equal in length, both 
freely movable and capable of closing the shell; posterior lobe emarginate 
behind, its angles rounded; carapace without traces of keel in adult. 
KinosTERNon, 309. 
aa. Plastron with its posterior lobe longer than anterior, truncate behind, its 
posterior angles not rounded; lobes of plastron little movable, incapable 
of closing the shell; carapace more or less keeled, at least when young; 
head very large, with strong jaws. . . . . . AROMOCHELYs, 310. 
309. KINOSTERNON Spix. (xvéw, to move ; orépvov, breast.) 
605. K. pennsylvanicum (Bosc). Mup Turt Le. Shell dusky 
brown ; head dark, with light dots. L.4. N. Y. to Fla. 
310. AROMOCHELYS Gray. (dpwya, odor ; xéAvs.) 
606. A. odoratus (Latreille). Musk Turtire. Srinx-por. 
Shell dusky, clouded, sometimes spotted; neck with two yellow 
stripes, one from above eye, the other from below; head very 
large with strong jaws; carapace with traces of a keel, but the 
plates not imbricated in the adult ; no point at symphysis of upper 
jaw; odor strong, musky. L. 6. E.U.S., abundant, W. to N. Ill. 
(Rice & Davis.) 
607. A. carinatus Gray. Plates of carapace overlapping more 
or less, each one edged with black and marked with radiating black 
stripes; neck unstriped ; a point at symphysis of upper jaw. La., 
N. toN. Ill. (Rice & Davis.) 
