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CATALOGUE OF AMERICAN TESTUDINATA. 



Chelonura serpentina. Emy saurus aliorum. 



Ch. Tkmminckii Holbrook, vol. i. p. 134. 



Trionyx ferox Auct. T, Bart rami, Geof. Ann. Mus. vol. xiv. p. 18. T. 

 georgicus ejusd. 1. c p. 7. T. spiniferus (spinifer,) Lesueur, Mem. Mus. vol. 

 xv. p. 20-5. Aspenodectes ferox Wagl. p. 134. Gymnopus spiniferus (spinifer,) 

 Dumeril, Erpetol. xi. p. 477. 



T. muticus Lesueur. 1. c. p. 263. 



Kinosternum pennsylvanicum. Terrapene penns. Merrem, Syst. p. 27. 

 Emyx id. Schw. vol. i. p. 437. Cistuda id. J. A. N. S. vol. iv. p. 204. 



K. sonoriense Lee. 



K. oboratuji. Terrapene odorata et Boscii Merrem, 1. c. p. 27. Cistudo 

 odorata Say, I. c. Emys odorata Schw. 1. c. p. 437. Test, glutinata Daudin, 

 vol. xi. p. 194. Stem other us odoratus Bell, Zool. Journ. vol. xi. p. 307. 

 Staurotypus odoratus Dumeril, 1. c p. 358. 



K. GUTTATUM LeC. 



Cistudo clausa. Cistudo Carolina alior. Test, virgulata Lat. Hist. Rep. 

 vol. i. p. 100. Emys clausa Schw. vol. i. p. 315. Emys virgulata ejusd. ib. 

 p. 316. E. Schneideri ejusd. ib. p. 317. Terrapene Carolina maculata et 

 nebulosa Bell, Zool. Journ. vol. xi. p. 309. Var. ? Onychotria mexicana Gray, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. vol. 17, p. 16. 



Ltjtremys meleagris Turton's Lin. Syst. Nat. vol. i. p. 645; Nodder and 

 Shaw, Nat. Miscel. vol. iv. p. 144. Cistudo Blandiugii Holbr. vol. i. p. 39. 



Emys Muhlenbergii Schcepff. p. 132. Cher sine Muhlenbergii Merrem. 

 E. biguttata Say, 1. c. p. 212. 



E. serrata Daudin, 1. c. p. 145. E. scripta Gray, Rep. p. 29, who quotes 

 Schcepff, where is figured a young animal which it is impossible to refer to any 

 species. 



E. rugosa Shaw, Zool. vol. iii. p. 28. E. ruhriventris Lee. Ann. Lye. 

 vol. iii. p. 101. E. irrigata Dum. 1. c. p. 276. E. serrata Say, I. c. p. 204. 

 Varies very much, but the essential character is in the dentation of the jaws. 



E. reticulata Latr. vol. i. p. 124. 



E. floriimna Lee. Ann. Lye. 1. c. p. 100. 



E. mobiliensis Holbrook, 1. c. p. 71. 



E. concinna Lee. 1. c. p. 106. 



E. oregonensis Holbr. 1. c. p. 107. 



E. hieroglyphica Holbr. 1. c. p. 111. E. orvata Gray, Rept. p. 50. E. 

 annul if era ejusd. ib. p. 52. 



E. CUMBERLANDENSIS Holbr. 1. C. p. 115. 



E. Troostii Holbr. I. c. p. 123. 



E. iNscur.PTA Lee. Ann. Lye. vol. iii. p. . E. scabra Say, I. c. p. 210. 

 E. speciosa Gray, 1. c. p. 26. 



E. geographica Lesueur. E. pseudogeographica ejusd. Holb. vol i. p. 

 E. P4LUSTRIS Linn. E. terrapene alior. E. centrata et concentrica quorund. 

 E. picta. T. cinerea Schcepf. tab. iii. f. 2 and 3, is a young one. 

 E. guttata. E. punctata Schoepf. 

 Testudo Carolina. T. polyphemus aliorum. 



In the Catalogue of Amphibia in the collection of the British Museum, and in 

 that of the Jardin des Plantes, the following species of tortoises are mentioned 

 as coming from the United States. In the English Catalogue are described 

 Emys rivulata, E. scripta, E. Holbrookii, E. macrocephala, and E. Bennetii. 

 Not having these, and knowing that the descriptions must have been taken from 

 dried and faded specimens, or from such as were bleached by long immersion in 



