AMPHIBIA. REPTILES. i.Tcftudo. 643 
Head fmooth, particoloured ; plate oval, fcarcely convex, 
highly keeled and rough. 
-Scdjy a finger’s length; Jkin warty, fprinkled with a few fcalcs ; 
plate ovA, 22 inches long, 15 broad, on the fore-part mo- 
derately blunt with a convex, crenate circumference, behind 
rounded, a little ferrate, and at lafl; notched, lurface covered 
with angular w^rty tales. 
Body oval ; above, neck tail and legs fcaly ; beneatji 
fmooth, foft. 
Inhabits rivers of Java. ; burrows on the banks, and in con- 
junftion with other reptiles hunts fiih ; flefh very good. 
t^Iead fniall, relembling a ferpenfs; eyes Imall, moveable ; teeth. 
fitarp ; fcales lefs towards the head. 
Tail half as long as the body; flieil flattiih, carinate on 
the hind-part with 3 fcutels. 
2. Shell tubular. 
3 - Shell campanulate. 
Inhabits lakes on the banks of the Tanais, V olga, L/ral, and 
other Indian and Eajtern rivers, 
Eore-feet more palmate than the hind ; cheji truncate on the 
hind-part ; ject 4.clawed; chatvs lharp. 
Sioil 
F ore-feet 5-cIawed, hind 4-clawed ; front callous, 3-lobed ; 
tail with a claw at the end. 
Inhabits Surinam. 
Shell black, oblong, oval with 3 obfoleta. angles on the back ; 
Jcutels on the back refembling armorial fliields ; neaa 01, the 
fore-part covered with a callolity which is 3-lobed on the 
hind-part; outer-tce of the hipd-feet unarmed ; c/atur lharp, 
that of the tail incurvate. 
Feet 4.clawed ; tail terminating in a claw. 
■f-ength half a foot ; Jhell convex, variegated with yellow and 
black; /cttte/r of the margin 24, the 2 laft more convex ; 
teeth o ; hind-Jeet like thofe of the elephant ; daw of the tail 
bony, bent inwards, \ an inch long. 
Feet digitate ; fliell gibbous ; tail o. 
Inhabits CaraKna. ... , 
Head obtufilh, covered with callous fcales ; incilure ot the 
plate lunate on the fore-part, lharp edged ; fcutcls broad, flat, 
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