1862.] 
Order CJielonia. 
brown” with pale yellowish patches ; and the lower parts brown, as 
well as the head and neck. 
The specimen, under review, was sufficiently aged to have lost all 
traces of plates or shields on the head, which was tolerably smooth, 
and apparently covered with a plain tight coriaeious skin, loosened 
into folds and wrinkles on the throat and neck, like that on the trunk 
of an Elephant. The paddles were covered with similar hard stretch¬ 
ed leather. The fore-paddles had, on the extremities of the middle 
and little fingers, a triangular flat nail, the spaces answering to the 
ends of the index and ring-fingers being marked with a cuvilinear 
sharpish edge of the skin. On the hind-paddle, the innermost or 
little toe will be found strongly relieved from the contour of the rest 
of the foot, and covered by a broad triangular scale or nail. These 
features will, doubtless, be apparent in the dry skin, and are particu¬ 
larly noted here, as Dumeril and Bibron deny the existence of any 
nails or scale extremities to either fore or hind digits. 
The carinas, or longitudinal ridges of the carapax, are not serrated 
(“ faiblement dentelees en scie,”) as in Dumeril and Bibron’s subject, 
but are composed of lines of large, rough, and partly worn tubercles. 
No traces of plates are visible on either sternum or carapax, which 
are covered, as with hardened untanned leather apparently, continuous 
with the integuments of the neck and limbs. There are no traces of 
ridges or tubercles on the ventral aspect of the body ; but the mesial 
line is marked by a slight depression. 
The dimensions of the animal taken, rather roughly, by me, were 
as follow: 
Entire length from upper lip to end of carapax, 6' 2^" (straight). 
Length of head, 
the 
neck, ... 
carapax, 
Eore paddle, .. 
Hind ditto,. 
Breadth of carapax, 
Depth of body, 
Its weight I had not the means of ascertaining: but it required 
six men to lift it fairly off the ground; and Taloung fishermen are 
not a particularly feeble race. 
The eggs were spherical, of J-f" diameter, and are as palatable as 
