40 EMYS RUBR1VENTR1S. 



brought to the Philadelphia market, from both these localities, though its flesh is 

 not greatly esteemed. 



General Remarks. Leconte was certainly the first who described this animal 

 under the name it now bears; for although it is referred to in the works both of 

 Say and Harlan, yet it is evidently confounded with the Emys serrata of Bosc, to 

 which it bears no resemblance; as it is ecarinate, and the posterior border of the 

 shell not serrated; nor can there be any doubt that this is the Emys irrigata of 

 Bell, and of Dumeril and Bibron; for I have seen, through the kindness of Mr. 

 Bell, his specimen under this name, as well as those in the Garden of Plants at 

 Paris, from which Dumeril and Bibron took their description, and I could discover 

 no difference between them and the Emys rubriventris. The difference of colour 

 in the shell and sternum, given by Dumeril and Bibron, cannot determine the 

 animal, for their description was taken from dead specimens, and it is well known 

 that the red both of the shell and sternum becomes of a dusky yellowish-white in 

 specimens that have been preserved for any length of time. 



