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EMYS GUTTATA.— Schneider. 

 Plate IV. 



Characters. Shell oval, entire, smooth, ecarinate; black, with orange-coloured 



spots. 



Synontmes. Testudo anonyma, Schneid,, Schildk., 2 beytr. p. 30. 



Testudo guttata, Schneid., Schrift. der Berl. Naturf. Fr., p. 264, b. iv. s. 3. 



Testudo punctata, Schoepf, Hist. Test., p. 25, tab. v. 



Testudo punctata, Latr., Hist, des Rept, torn. i. p. 110. 



Testudo guttata, Shaiv, Gen. Zool., vol. iii. p. 47, pi. x. fig. 1. 



Testudo punctata, Baud., Hist. Nat. des Rept., torn. ii. p. 159, pi. xxii. 



La Tortue ponctuee, Bosc, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., torn. xx. p. 265. 



Emys punctata, Merrem., Versuch. eines Syst. der Rept, p. 24, spec. 13. 



Emys guttata, Schiveig., Prod. Arch. Kijnigsb., p. 309, spec. 29. 



Emys punctata, Say, Jour. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., vol. iv. p. 205. 



Emys guttata, Fitz., Neue Class, der Rept., p. 45. 



Testudo punctata, Leconte, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist., N. Y., vol. iii. p. 117. 



Clemys punctata, Wagl., Nat. Syst. der Amph., p. 137. 



Emys guttata, Gray, Synop. Rept., p. 26. 



Emys punctata, Harl., Med. and Phys. Res., p. 151. 



Emys guttata, Dum. et Biber., Hist. Nat. des Rept., torn. ii. p. 295. 



Speckled tortoise, Vulgo. 



Description. The shell is oval, or sub-round, more or less flattened, smooth, 

 ecarinate, with an entire margin, or slightly emarginate behind. Of the five ver- 

 tebral plates, the anterior is pentagonal, broadest in front, with two of its borders 

 directed anteriorly; the second and third are hexagonal, their greatest extent being 

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