58 EMYS RUBRIVENTRIS. 



General Rejiarks. 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 but little resemblance, as it is ecarinate, and the posterior border 

 of the shell is not serrated. There can be no doubt that this is the Emys 

 irrigata of Bell, and of Duraeril 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 dried speci- 

 mens, 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. 



