Terrapene. 309 



Shell ovate, flattish, suboarinated ', spotted in a radiated manner. 



On examining some time since a shell of this species, the first 

 I had seen, which had lost the sternumj I was struck with the 

 appearance of the articular surface from which that part had been 

 removed, and immediately concluded that it must belong to the 

 present group, having a moveable breast plate, notwithstanding 

 Merrem, to whom belongs the credit of having separated the 

 '^ Box Tortoises" under his subgeneric division Terrapene^ retains 

 this species amongst his Emydes^ the character of which, in con- 

 tradistinction to Terrapene^ is, that the sternum is entire and 

 fixed. On consulting Schoepff, I found that, with his usual accu- 

 racy, that authour had mentioned the moveable structure of the 

 sternmn, and subsequent observations have established my first 

 conjecture that it belongs to this genus. ^ 



Sbecies 2. 

 Carolina. 2\ ovato^gibba^ limdo-fusca^ luteo subconferte macw 

 lata ; scutis rugosis^ Sterno postice rotundato, 



Testudo Carolina. Linn. S. iV. I. p. 352, Gmel. 1041. 

 Schneid, 334. 



T, clausa. Gmel. 104^. Schoepff^ p. 32. t. 7. 



Terrapene clausa. ilferrewz, p. 27. 



Cistuda clausa. Say^ Jaurn* Acad. Sc. Phil. IV. p. 205, 



Habitat in America, 



Mus. Nost. 



Shell ovate-gibbous, of a livid brown colour, with yellow sulj- 

 contiguous spots; plates wrinkled : sternum rounded behind. 



Species 3. 

 MAcuLATA, T. testu subglobosu, subcarinata, nigra albo-macu- 

 lata ; scutis distanter sulcatis. Sterno postice integro^ rotuu" 

 dato. 



' Habitat ? 



Mus. Nost. 



*♦ " Sutura sterni transversalis media laxior est reliquis, et mobilitatem 

 aliquam concedit, ita ut uterque lobus, magis tamen anterior, ad superiorem 

 testam nonnihil propius adinoveri possit." — Schoepff Hist. Test. p. 3, de Test. 

 Europea, 



