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a'. Plastron nearly completely closing shell in adult; posterior margin of 
carapace not serrated C. amboinensis Daudin. 
Cyclemys amboinensis (Daudin). Plate 1, figs. 1 and 2; Plate 2, 
figs. 3 and 4 ; Plate 3, figs. 2 and 3. 
Testudo amboinensis Daudin, Kept. 2 (1802) 309. 
Emys amboinensis Schweigger, Prodr. (1824) 45. 
Emys couro Schweigger, Prodr. (1824) 46; Schlegel, Fauna Japon., 
Kept. (1833) 63. 
Terrapene amboinensis Merrem, Tent. Syst. Amph. (1820) ; Strauch, 
Chel. Stud. (1862) 99; Verth. Schildkr. (1865) 47; Sowerby and 
Lear, Tort. (1872) pi. 23. 
Kinosternum amboinensis Bell, Zool. Journ. (1825) 305. 
Terrapene bicolor Bell, Zool. Journ. (1825) 484, pi. 16. 
Terrapene couro Fitzinger, Neue Class. Kept. (1826) 45. 
Cistudo amboinensis Gray, Syn. Rept. (1831) 19; 111. Ind. Zool. 1 
(1832) pi. 57, fig. 2; Dumeril and Bibron, Erp. Gen. 2 (1835) 215, 
pi. 15, fig. 2 (Manila) ; Gray, Cat. Tort. (1844) 30 (from Philip- 
pines) ; Geibel, Zeit. f. ges. Natur. 27 (1866) 11. 
Cuora amboinensis Gray, Cat. Shield Rept. 1 (1855) 41; Gunther, 
Rept. Brit. India (1864) 12, pi. 4, figs, a, b; Gray, Suppl. Cat. Shield 
Rept. 1 (1870) 21; Appendix (1872) 10; Theobald, Cat. Rept. Brit. 
India (1876) 7; Gunther, Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1879) 75 
(Dinagat) ; Muller, I Nachtr. Cat. Herp. Samml. Mus. Basel 
(1880) 49 (Luzon, Negros) ; Boettger, Ber. Senck. Nat. Ges. (1886) 
92. 
Cyclemys amboinensis Boulenger, Cat. CheL Rhyn. Croc. Brit. Mus. 
(1889) 133; Fauna India, Rept. (1890) 31, fig. 10; Fascic. Mai. 
Zool. 1 (1903) 343; Flower, Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1896) 859; 
(1899) 614; Werner, Zool. Jahrb. Syst. 13 (1900) 482; Laidlaw, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London 2 (1901) 582; Boettger, Abh. Senck. Ges. 
Frankfurt 25 (1901) 364; Siebenrock, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien 
112 (1903) 343; Zool. Jahrb. Suppl. 10 (1909) 503; de Rooij, Rept. 
Indo-Aust. Arch. 1 (1915) 302; Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. 
Harvard Coll. 44 (1912) 143. 
Description of species. — (From No. 1460, Bureau of Science 
collection; collected on Polillo, P. I., October, 1909, by C. Cano- 
nizado.) Head moderately large, completely retractile; snout 
bluntly pointed, nostrils anterior, very close together ; eyes diag- 
onally set; upper jaw with only slight hook, finely denticulated; 
top of head covered with smooth leathery skin, undivided ; a very 
slight elevation on skull just behind eyes; carapace smooth, con- 
vex, with a single median keel, dim anteriorly, but distinct pos- 
teriorly; five vertebral shields, only third longer than wide, all 
narrower than costals; latter shields wider than long, four on 
each side; eleven marginals on each side; a small nuchal, longer 
than wide ; supracaudals small, longer than wide, slightly notched ; 
posterior edge of carapace not or but very slightly serrate ; plas- 
tron about the size of opening of shell, only slightly pointed 
