acute prominentia, postremurii subrectangulum, minus compressum, posticnm impar
rectangulo-marginatum, medio globoso-gibbum, subtus large concavum. P e c tu s
aurantio-flavum, ellipticum, elongatum, antice subacutum, subconvexum, subbifur-
catum, postice obtuse excavato - sinuatum, medio concavum; bracteae duodecim,
non striatae, nigro-marginatae, quarum anterior gemina, subrectangula, postice ob-
tusa, antice truncata, medio disjuncts,' secunda oblonga, rectangula, extus rotunda-
to- marginataff!tertia subtrapezóidea, intus angustissima, quarta maxima, quadrata,
quinta subquadrata, minor, postica gemina, minima, transverse subrectangula, postice
obtuse èxcavata, testam vix attingens. P e d e s robusti, flavicantes ; palmae
plantaeque globoso - clavatae, squamosae sive scutellataê; ungues virescentes, obtusi,
plani; cauda squamosa, testam non exsuperans. Longitndo corporis i ° 5' , capitis
2 f ' ’, testae i°3 ’ , caudae i l ' ; latitudo capitis 1 testae 8'j altitudo testae 5 ■
Habitat in sylvis ad flumen Solimoëns, ubi incolis J a p u ty G ran de audit.
S p e c i e s 16. TESTUDO SCULPTA. T ab. XV.
Medioeris, citrino-ocbracdi; testa sobcylindrica, globoso.eleyata, citrino ■ flavescente, postice subrotundata;
scutis planiuscuiis, medio granulatis tuberculatisque, a^ margines fuscescentibus, stngilatis,
strigis subrectangulis; scutis spinalibus transverse oblongis, hexagoms, antico impart deficiente;
pectore antice dentato, postice breviore quam scutum.
D e s c b i i t i O. C a p u t subglobosum, supra planiusculUm, triscutellatum , flavo-
fuscum, reliquum squamulosum, antice. obtuse trigonum, truncatum; maxillae sub-
virescentes, '.rectängulae , denticulatae, superior antice bidentata; collum breve,
membranosum, cinerascens, T e s ta cylindrico - subrectangula, oblonga, elevato - con-
vexa, ad marginem externum non reflexa j| supra planiuscula, antice vix angustior,
subdeclivis, medio angulate emarginatä,. postice angustior, ovata, subconvexa, dec.
livis; scuta planiorS, subquadrata,'striata, mbdio tuberculata, granulosa, citrino-flava
, 'spinalia quinque|| subbexagona, transverse oblonga , quorum primum anti-
cum pentagonum, apice largiusculum, medio trianguläre, subacutum, secundum
et tertium aeque magna, bexagona, transverse oblonga, quartum hexagonum , pos-
stice angustius, obliquum, quintum trapezoideum, declive, convexum, antice an-
gustius, postice largum, rotundato-marginatum, lateralia quatuor, subverticaha,