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of two large suprapygals, and 138 or 14 peripherals. Baur again re- 
ferred to this species in 180,“ and assigned it to the genus Lepido- 
chelys; but it fails to meet the requirements of this genus, as he de- 
fines it, in having ‘the frontals entering the rim of the orbit and in 
having the descending processes of the prefrontals in contact with the 
palatines. 
Dr. G. A. Boulenger ’ recognized the species, relying not on the 
characters given by Doctor Garman in his original description, but 
on information furnished him by Garman and Baur to the effect that 
there is present on each alveolar surface of the upper jaw a ridge of 
bone and that the inner nostrils are not covered by the alveolar bor- 
ders. 
Up to 1906 no figures of the species had been published since it 
had been recognized as distinct from the loggerhead. In that year 
Dr. R. E. Coker furnished ° views reproduced from photographs, of 
a specimen as seen from above and from below. His description, 
limited to external characters, was based on four specimens, the 
largest of which had a carapace 15 inches long; the smallest, a cara- 
pace 12.5 inches long. The latter furnished the photographs, and is 
now in the herpetological division of the U. S. National Museum as a 
stuffed specimen, having the Catalogue Number 36108. 
From Coker’s description it appears that the fishermen in the 
region about Beaufort distinguish this species from the loggerhead 
by means of the more hooked jaws, miscalling it therefrom the 
“ hawksbill turtle.” From Garman we learn that the Florida fisher- 
men give it the name “bastard-turtle.” It is interesting to note 
that the latter name has been applied to probably this turtle for more 
than a hundred years, it having been mentioned by Lacépede as long 
ago as 1788.4 
The writer has had the opportunity to study various specimens of 
this species, most of them in the U. S. National Museum. These 
specimens are as follows: (1) The skull of the specimen Cat. No. 
29244, U.S.N.M., which furnished the figures published by the 
writer,’ and which was taken off Cape Hatteras, by Dr. F. W. True 
in 1888; (2) a complete skeleton, with carapace 278 mm. long, Cat. 
No. 29015, U.S.N.M., locality unknown; (3) the skull, limb bones, 
and shell of a specimen having the carapace 680 mm. long, Cat. No. 
29323, U.S.N.M., of unknown locality; (4) the stuffed and dried 
specimen sent from Beaufort by Doctor Coker, Cat. No. 36108, 
U.S.N.M.; (5) a similarly prepared specimen taken at Atlantic City, 
4 Amer. Naturalist, XXIV, p. 487. 
6 Cat. Chelonians, 1889, p. 186. 
© Bull. No. 14, North Carolina Geol. Suty., 1) SZ, joll, swan, 
@ Hist. Nat. Quad. Ovipares, I, p. 104. 
¢ Fossil turtles of N. INTNEIC, D> D JO, wy Takes, I, Be jo, im, ime, I, 
