56 EMYSMOBILENSIS. 



that he has observed it many years ago in Alabama, and proposed calling it Emys 

 Mobilensis, to which I have no objection. I have been informed that it is not 

 unfrequently sent to the New Orleans market, where it is known under the name 

 Mobilianer. 



This animal is perhaps most nearly allied to the Emys rubriventris, from which, 

 however, it differs specifically; in this species both jaws are finely serrated; the 

 shell is not compressed at the side, it is more elevated in front, and more depressed, 

 and broader behind; the shell is brown, reticulated with yellow lines; it is more 

 than twice the size of the rubriventris, and has never yet been found within seven 

 hundred miles of its locality. 



