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ThALASSOCHELTS CORTICATA, Grd. 



(Plate XXIX.) 



Spec. Char. — -Garapax rather elongated, subcordiform, nearly even in 

 the old, exhibiting three longitudinal ridges in the young, in which 

 the posterior margin is likewise more indentated than in grown-up 

 individuals. Marginal shields twenty-seven. Interfrontal plate 

 divided. Four moderate mental shields in a transverse series. 

 Four unequal, medium-sized plates on the side of the lower jaw, 

 and several small ones posteriorly. Keddisli-brown above ; yellow- 

 ish-brown beneath. 



SYN.—Testudo corticata, Rond. Pise. Mar. 1554, Lib. XVI, Cap. iii. 



Testudo marina, Gesn. Hist. Anim. Quadr. Ovip. 1554, 114; &, Nomencl. Aquat. 

 Anim. 1560, 183.— Ai^drov. Quadr. Ovip. 1621, 712. Tab. dccxiv.— Olear. Mua. 

 1666, 27. Tab. xvir, fig. 1.— Gottw. Physik. Anat. Bcmerk. Schildk. 1781. Figs. 1-4. 



Testudo caretfa, LiiNN. Syst. Nat. ed. X% I, 1758, 197 ; &, ed. XII% I, 1766, 351. 

 — Walb. Chelonogr. 1782, 4 & 95.— Gmel. Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. XIII% I, iii, 1788, 

 1038.— ScHCEPFF, Hist. Test. 1792, 67 & 74. Tab. svi, xvi b, & xvir, fig. 3.— 

 DoNND. Zool. Beitr. HE, 1798, 9.— Latr. Hist. nat. Kept. I, 1802, 53.— Shaw, Gen. 

 Zool. Ill, i, 1802, 85. Tab. xxiii, xxiv, & xxv (Bad).— Cuv. R^gn. Auim. 2d ed. 

 II, 1829, 14 ; &, ed. illustr. Kept. 20.— Holbr. N. Amer. Herp. II, 1842, 33. PI. IV. 



Testudo marina caouana, Catesb. Nat. Hist. Carol. II, 1771, 40, Tab. XL. — Ray, 

 Synops. Metb, Anim. Quadr. 1693, 257. 



Testudo cephalo, ScHN. Allg. Naturg. Schildkr. 1783, 303. 



Testudo caouana, Bonnat. Encycl. m6th. Erpet. 1789, 20.— Bechst. Lacep. Naturg. 

 Amph. 1, 1802, 110.— Daud. Hist. nat. Rept. II, 1805, 54. Tab. xvi, fig. 2.— Cuv. 

 Il6gn. Anim. II, 1817, 13. 



Chelonia caouana, SoHWEiG. Prodr. Monogr. Chelon. in Arch. Kbnigsb. I, 1812, 

 292 & 418.— Wagl. Naturl. Syst. Amph. 1830, 133. Tab. i, figs. 1 & 26.— Gray, 

 Synops. Rept. in Griff. Aniin. Kingd. IX, 1831, 53.— Bibr. & Bory, Exped. scient. 

 de la Moree, III, i, Zool. 1832, 64.— DuM. & Bibr. Erpet. gen. II, 1835, 552. 



Caretta cephalo, Merr. Tent. Syst. Amph. 1820, 18.— Maximil. Beytr. Naturg. 

 Bras. I, 1825, 25.— Risso, Hist. nat. Eur. merid. Ill, 1826, 85. 



Chelonia caretta, Gravenh. Delic. Mus. Zool. Vratisl. i, 1829, 7. Tab, i, fig. 3. 



Chelonia virgata, Wagl. Descr. & Icon. Amph. 1838. Tab. xxix. 



Chelonia pelagiorum, Valenc. Rept. Mor. 1832, 64. Tab. x. 



Chelonia (^Caretta) cephalo, Less, in Belanj. Voy. Ind. Orient. Zool. 1834, 300. 



Chelonia cephalo, Temm. & Schleg. Faun. Japon. Erpet. 1838, 23. Tab. iv, figs. 

 1-3. 



Thalassocheli/s caouana, FiTZ. in Zool. Ann. Wien. Mus. I, 1841, 128 ) &, Syst, 

 Rept. I, 1843, 30.— Agass. Contr. Nat. Hist. TJ. S. Amer. I, 1857, 384. PI. vi, figs. 

 13-32, & PI. VII, fig. 30, 



