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at the inner angle of the mesoplastra {Ms.p.), which are thus wedged in between 
marginals 5 and 6 and tlie outer ends of the hyo- and hypoplastra. The mesoplastra 
are longer than broad ; the two inner borders are strongly convex. The borders of tbe 
posterior lobe of the plastron are evenly curved to the posterior angles, except for 
a slight notch where the furrow between the femoral and anal shields crosses the edge. 
The sutures between the hypoplastra and the xiphiplastra (Xi.p.) run parallel with the 
femoro-anal furrows and about 3 cm. in front of them. There is a deep rounded 
notch between the posterior ends of the xiphiplastrals. 
The intergular shield (ig.) is very large and extends back as far as the middle 
of the entoplastron, separating both the gulars (g.) and the humerals Both 
these plates are very small: the pectorals {pect.), on the other hand, are large; 
the suture between them and the abdominals runs across about 3 or 4 centimetres 
behind the anterior end of the bridge. The limits of the abdominals, the femorals, 
and the anals are shown in the figure. The bones constituting the posterior lobe 
of the carapace have their upper surfaces raised into a ridge about 4’5 cm. from, and 
parallel wuth, their outer borders ; from this ridge they slope away to the thin edge, the 
sloping surface being evidently in great part covered by epidermal inguinal shields, 
which seem to have extended back to the posterior ends of the xiphiplastra. 
The upper surface of the xiphiplastrals bears the bases of the pubes and ischia, 
as is usual in the Pleurodira, and when the type specimen was found the whole 
pelvis w'as in situ. The bases of the pubes are narrower and directed more foinvards 
than in Podocnemis, and the same is the case to a less degree with the bases of the 
ischia. 
The ilium is short and stout ; it does not seem to have been much expanded at its 
upper end. In the middle of the shaft the bone has a flat antero-external surface and 
a rounded postero-internal surface ; it forms the greater part of the acetabulum. The 
pubis is flattened and united with the xiphiplastron by a long narrow base ; the anterior 
process is shorter than in Podocnemis. The ischium seems to have been slender, 
but the greater part is missing. The acetabulum is roughly triangular, one of the 
rounded angles being borne by each of the bones composing it, the angle on the pubis 
being the most strongly marked. The ilium forms about two-thirds of the cavity, 
the ischium constituting rather less than half of the remainder. The ilium of 
Stereogenys gjodocnemioides figured by Reinach is very similar. 
R. 3039. Nearly complete carapace ami plastron. Type specimen described and figured in Ann. 
& Mag. Nat. Hist. [7] vol. xi. pp. 115-119, jd. vii. (reproduced in text-tig. 97). The 
dimensions (in centimetres) of this specimen are : — 
Length of carapace in middle line 41-5 
Approximate width of shell 32 
Length of nuchal bone (in middle line) 5'7 
Width of nuchal bone 7'5 
