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CATALOGUE OF SHIELD REPTILES. 



h. Adult (stuffed). Sternum black-spotted. Louisiana. 

 Mr. W. Smith's Collection. 



g. Half-grown (in spirits). Sternal spots large, solid, dif- 

 fused, the hinder subconfluent. North America. Mr. 

 Brandt's Collection. 



E. serrata, Brandt. 



c. Half-grovra (in spirits) . Three middle front claws elon- 



gate ; sternal spots round, solid ; band on the symphy- 

 sis solid, black, interrupted in front. North America, 

 Ohio. From the Leyden Museum. 

 E. serrata, Mus. Leyden. 



d. Half-grown (stuffed). Spots on sternum solid, distinct, 



very like " e." North America, Louisiana. Mr. 

 Smith's Collection. 



e. Young (in spirits) . Sternal spots annular, distinct only 



where the plate is deficient. New Orleans. 



/. Very young (in spirits). Sternal spots annular, brown, 

 with a double marginal dark ring on the edge of the 

 gular and the middle of the other plates. 



Emys sanguinolenta, Gray, MSS. Tab. XV. fig. 1. 



? Emys Kuhlii, Gray, Syn. Test. 73 ; Cat. Tort. B.M. 28. 



Osteology : — 



a. Half-grown shell Sternal spots subannular. North 

 America, Louisiana. From Mr. J. Drummond's Col- 

 lection. 



Emys Holbrookii, Gray, Cat. Tort. B.M. 23. 



This species is very like E. scripta, but there is a distinct 

 pale streak on the fourth or hinder costal shield, as well as 

 on the others, while in E. scripta there is only a single dark 

 spot on the hinder margin of that plate, surrounded with a 

 single series of arched, dark, concentric lines ; the form of 

 the streaks on the neck and the extension of the dark 

 marks on the stemo-costal symphysis are also permanent 

 distinctions. 



17. Emys scripta. The Lettered Em\s. 



Shell oblong, longitudinally rugose, keeled, toothed be- 

 hind, brown, irregularly yellow-ringed, and with irregular 

 yellow streaks on the sides, forming two oblong rings on 

 the first, second, third and fourth costal plate, and concen- 

 tric rings round a posterior dark spot on the front costal 

 shield ; nuchal shield linear, porrect ; vertebral shields 

 bluntly keeled, first urceolate, fourth and fifth sLx-sided ; 

 imder margin with a black spot on the back edge of each 

 plate. Sternum yellowish, black-sj>otted, with a spot on 

 each end of the sterno-costal symphysis. Head, beak, neck 

 and feet yellow-lined, the central frontal line distinct ; the 

 temple with a large pale spot. 



Emvs scripta, Merrem, Tent. 2-1. 



' Gray, Syn. 29 ; Cat. Tort. B.M. 23. 



Testudo scripta, Schoepff. Test. 16. t. 3. f. 4, 5. 



Shatv, Zool. t. 12. 



Baud. Kept. ii. 140. 

 Emys scripta, Schweigger, Prod. 297. 



Merrem, Tent. 24. 

 T. serrata. Baud. Kept. ii. 148. t. 21. f. 1, 2. 



Schoepf. Test. t. 3. f. 5. 



Leconte, Ann. Lye. N. Y. iii. 105. 

 Emys serrata, Schweigger, Prod. 301. 



Merrem, Tent. 26. 



Leconte, Ann. Lye. N. T. iii. 105. 



Dum. ^- Bib. Erp. Gen. ii. 267 ; Cat. Meth. R. 10. 



Holbrook, N. A. Herpet. i. 49. t. 5 ; i. 31. t. 5. 

 Testudo rugosa, var., Shaw, Zool. iii. 29. 

 Terrapene scripta, Bonap. Obs. Rig. Anim. 155 (1830). 



Hab. North America ; New York. Near the coast from 

 Virginia to Georgia. Sold in the markets of Charleston as 

 the " yellow-bellied Terrapen : flesh good." — Holbrook. 



A large species ; shell often 12 or 14 inches long. 



Far. 1 . Temple with a large square yellow spot at the back 

 of the orbit. Sternum pale, with a solid spot on each 

 gular, axillary, inguinal and marginal shield. 



E. scripta. 



b. Young ; 4 inches. Front claws short ; stemal spot 

 solid. North America. Presented by Major-General 

 Thomas Hardwicke. 



Var. 2. Temple with a large square spot at the back of 

 the orbit. Sternum pale, with regular subceutral 

 black rings on each sternal plate. 



e. Half-grown (stuffed). Three middle front claws elon- 

 gate ; sternum, lower margin with large black rings. 

 North America. 



Far. 3. Temple with a large, broad, erect streak behind 

 the eye, and a large triangular spot over the tympa- 

 num. Sternum pale, with a round solid spot on each 

 gular, axillary, inguinal and marginal plate. 



/. Young (in spirits). Green. North America. Presented 

 by the Zoological Society. 



Var. 4. Temple with a large, broad, oblong streak from the 

 back of the orbit along side of neck. Sternum with a 

 large solid spot on most of the sternal and on each 

 marginal, axillary and inguinal plate. 



a. Adult (stuffed). Three middle front claws moderate, 

 broken ; sternum with a solid black spot on each gular, 

 axillary, inguinal and marginal plate, and on one or 

 two of the other sternal plates. 



Var. 5. Head and neck streaks very indistinct. Sternum 

 black speckled, with a large irregular spot ou each 



