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back, and the sternum is marked with a dark -edged, irregular, 

 central, green line, with a ring on each side of the front lobe 

 placed on the suture between the gular and humeral plates. 



23. Emys scr'ipta, (Lettered Termpin.J Testa oblonga 

 longitudina'liter rugulosa fusca, lateribus irregulariter luteo- 

 fasciatis, postice subdentata irregulariter luteo annulata, 

 scutellis vertebralibus obtuse carinatis, Imo urceolato, 4to 

 et 5to longe hexagonalibus, marginalibus subtus maculis 

 centralibus rotundatis ornatis, sterno convexo lutescente 

 antice maculis 2, lateribusque utrinque 4, notato : capite 

 gulaque linea centrali, temporibus utrinque macula lutea, 

 variegatis. 



Test, serratu. Daud. t. 21, f. 1, (fig. mediocris) non 

 Schw. nee Bell. 



Jun. Testudo scripta. Schoepf, t. 3, f. 5, (v Mus. Par.) 

 cop. ; Lettered Tortoise, Shaw. Zool. t. , (v. Mus. Bell.) 



Hab. in America Boreali, Carolina Bosc. (v. t. Mus. 

 Bell,&c.) 



The shell large, convex, brown, and irregularly yellow- 

 lined ; the under edge has a series of black spots on the back 

 edo-e of each marginal plate (not on the sutures, as represented 

 by Daudin) ; the sternum yellowish, with a spot on the 

 centre of each gular plate, and four on each side on the 

 costo-sternal symphysis. The head with a central yellow 

 line, another on the upper lip, a forked one on the centre 

 of the chin, and a triangular spot behind each eye. 



24. Emys serrata. {Serrated Terrapin.) Testa oblonga Ion - 

 gitudinaliter rugulosa olivaceo fusca, fasciis pallidis irregu- 

 iaribus transversis variegata, postice subdentata, scutellis 

 vertebralibus obtuse carinatis, Imo longe urceolato, reliquis 

 longe hexagonalibus, marginalibus subtus maculis subocel- 

 latis ad suturas positis, sterno flavescente piano, lineis 

 nigro marginata ornato. 



Emysreticidaria. Bell, MSS. (v. Mus. Bell.) Emysserrata, 

 Say. Emys serrata, Var. Schw. Test, serrata, (5 Merrem. 



/3 Testa scutellis vertebralibus mediis complanatis, 

 (v. M. Brit.) 



Hab. in America Boreah. (v. t. Mus. Bell, &c.) 



The under side is yellowish, with a series of subocellated 



spots on the sutures of the marginal plates, and a dark 



edo-ed pale line on the sutures, between the outer sides of 



the sternal and marginal plates. Some of the specimens 



