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riMBRfATED TORTOISE, 



Testudo Fimbriata. T. testa ovali suhconvexa trifariam carmatd, 

 pedibus subdigitatis, ?iaso cylindrico proboscideo, collo utrinque 

 Jimbriato. Bruguiere Journ. d'Hist. Nat. No. 7. p. 253. pL 13. 

 (T. Matamata.) 



Tortoise with oval, siibconvex, triply carinated shell, subdigi- 

 tated feet, cyliiidric snout, and neck fimbriated on each 

 side. 



Testudo fimbriata. T. testa striata et ecliinaia, fronte callosa 

 triloba. Schneid. Schildkr. p. 349. 



Testudo terrestris major, putamine chinato et striato, s, Rapa- 

 rapa. Barrere. Fr. Equin. p. l63, 



Testudo scorpioides ? T. pedibus subdigitatis, fronte callosa tri- 

 loba, Cauda unguiculata. Lin. Syst, Nat. p. 352. 



This is an animal of a very singular and un- 

 pleasing appearance. It was first described by 

 Mons. Bruguiere in tlie Journal d'Histoire Natu^ 

 relle^ published at Paris in the year 1792. The 

 length of the shell is about fifteen inches or more, 

 and its breadth eleven, but the length of the whole 

 animal from the nose to the end of the tail is 

 two feet three inches. The head is large and 

 flat, rounded in front, and edged on the sides 

 with waity and wrinkled membranaceous appen- 

 dages of about five inches wide, and is also co- 

 vered behind by a three-lobed prominence: the 

 nose is of a shape resembling a proboscis, being 

 cylindric, ten lines long, truncated, pierced by 

 the nostrils, at the tip, where they are separated 

 by a cartilaginous division : the eyes are round, 

 seated at the base of the proboscis, and are ten 

 lines distant from each other : the mandibles are 



