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though the colour and markings of the shell agree tolerably well with Schoepff's 

 animal, yet its form is not precisely the same, it is more elongated; and even in 

 the very young specimens, of which I have seen many, the posterior border is 

 more or less serrated. And further, Bosc, to whom the young of the Einys 

 serrata must have been familiar during his long residence in Carolina, seems to 

 have had no suspicion that the Testudo scripta was the young of any of our 

 tortoises, inasmuch as he describes it as a distinct species. 



