770 REPORT OF THE HARVARD AFRICAN EXPEDITION 
CROCODYLIDAE 
Crocodylus cataphractus Cuvier 
1 skull (M.C.Z. 22483) Totokwelli. 29. x. 26. 
‘One crocodile measuring 2} metres in length was shot by Dr. Bouet in the 
Du River. It was carrying leeches on the back near the base of the tail, and the 
blood contained haemogregarines.”’ 
Osteolaemus tetraspis Cope 
Skin and skeleton (M.C.Z. 22913-4) Paiata, St. Paul’s River. 
1043 mm. in total length. There were some leeches on its skin. 
TESTUDINIDAE 
Kinixys homeana (Bell) 
2 ex. (M.C.Z. 22487 and 24010) Lenga Town, Farmington River. 
An adult and one young. Recorded for the first time from Liberia, though 
this country is within the range of the species, which is coterminous with that 
of K. erosa. 
Kinixys erosa (Schweigger) 
2 ex. (M.C.Z. 22484—5) Bonuta. 
1 ex. (M.C.Z. 22486) Lenga Town, Farmington River. 
2 ex. (M.C.Z. 22488) Paiata, St. Paul’s River. 
Bittikofer records a Dentated Hinged Tortoise 25 cm. in length and says 
that it is moderately common in both forest and bush country. 
TRIONYCHIDAE 
Amyda triunguis (Forskal) 
1 ex. (M.C.Z. 22489) St. John’s River near Ghanga. 
A soft-shelled Water Tortoise weighing 75 lbs. is referred to by Biittikofer. 
He gives its total length as 122 cm. The shield, however, measured only 78 X 
57cm. Bittikofer found but two such giant specimens, most of them being, like 
ours, about the “size of one’s hand.” The big turtles had their stomachs full of 
oil nuts and the observer declares that he believes that these supposedly strictly 
aquatic creatures came ashore at night and wandered afield foraging for fruits. 
This observation, if accurate, is most peculiar, indeed unique. 
TYPHLOPIDAE 
Typhlops punctatus Leach 
2 ex. (M.C.Z. 22490-1) Bakratown. 
5 ex. (M.C.Z. 22492-6) Gbanga. 
Typhlops liberiensis Jan and krausvi Jan have long been recognized as Syn- 
onyms. | 
“One of the young Bakratown specimens was found crawling hurriedly along 
at noonday with a slight caterpillar-like undulation, not a horizontal motion, 
