KINOSTERNON SCORPIOIDES. 
Testa tricarinata, scutis vertebralibus elongatis, subimbricatis. 
Testudo scorpioides. Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 352.-—Bau bent. Enc. Meth.— 
Lacep. Quad. Ovip. 133.—Latr. Rept. i. p. 19- 
T. tricarinata. Baud. Rept. n. p. 178. 
T. ( Chersine ) scorpioides. M errem, Ampb. 33. 
T pensylvanica , var. Shaw, Gen. Zool. in. pt. 1. t. 15. p. 61. 
Emys scorpioiclea. Schweig. sp. 35. 
Kinosternon longicaudatum. Spix, Rept. Braz. t. xii. p. 17.—Bell, Zool. 
Journ. 11 . p. 304. 
? K. brevicaudatum. Spix, 1. c. t. xiii.—Bell, 1. c. p. 304. 
K. Shavianum. Bell, Zool. Journ. 1. c. 
Cinosternon scorpioides. Wagler, Ampb. p. 137- 
Kinosternon scorpioides. Gray, Syn. Rept. p. 34. 
Junior. Testudo tricarinata. Schoepff, Hist. Test. t. ii. p. 9-—Latr. Hist. 
Rept. 1 . p. 118.—Shaw, Gen. Zool. in. p. 54. t. xi. 
Testudo Retzii. Daud. 1. c. p. 174. 
Emys Retzii. Schweig. sp. 34. 
Terrapene tricarinata. Merr. Amph. p. 28. 
Habitat in Americb meridionali. —In Mexico, Brazili&, Surinamo, Guiana; ad 
ripas fluminum. 
Mus. nostr.— Mus. Brit., &c. 
Descriptio. Caput ovatum, postice latum, subdepressum, olivaceum, flavo virgillatum. 
Madoillce denticulatae, aduncae, margine subsinuato. Collum olivaceo-fuscum, lineis 
flavis confluentibus, longitudinalibus. Gula cirrhis quatuor parvis armata, cinerascens. 
Pedes fusco-virides, squamati. Ungues breves, falciformes, acuti. Cauda crassa, 
conica, maris (?) brevis; foeminae (?) longior, in nonnullis ungue corneo terminata. 
