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CATALOGUE OF SHIELD REPTILES. 



b. Adult (stuffed). Neck with many very narrow yellow 

 lines ; temple and frontal streaks narrow ; lips dotted 

 and lined. North America. M. Parzudaki's Col- 

 lection. 



E. geographica /3, Gray, Cat. Tort. B.M. 



c&d. Adult (stuffed). Frontal, temporal and labial streaks 

 distinct, like "a." North America; Louisiana. 

 Mr. W. Smith's Collection. 



e. Adult (large size). Frontal, temporal and labial streaks 

 narrow, with other parallel narrower lines, somewhat 

 similar to " c." North America ; Louisiana. Mr. 

 W. Smith's Collection. 



/ & (/. (Half-grown). Back very high, compressed and 

 shelving, sharply keeled ; frontal and temporal streaks 

 distinct, moderate ; labial narrow, interrupted. North 

 America ; Louisiana. Mr. W. Smith's Collection. 



Head olive, with a more or less broad yellow streak on 

 the centre of the cromi, and a converging streak over each 

 side of the occiput, arising from a broad angular spot on 

 the temple at the back of the orbit. Neck yellow-streaked. 

 There are generally some narrow yellow streaks on the 

 crown and occiput, parallel or concentric with the principal 

 lines above described, and a curved yellow line on the 

 upper lip under the orbit, but in one specimen (4) the 

 upper lip is varied with dots and minute yellow curved 

 lines. 



The figure of Dr. Ilolbrook does not represent the dark 

 spots of the areola which are so distinct in the stuffed 

 specimens, and the markings on the marginal plates are 

 verj' inaccurate. 



*** Shell and marffin uniformly coloured. Sternum varie- 

 gated. 



28. Emys olivacea. The Quaker Emys. Tab. 



Shell depressed, broad, oblong ; plates very thin, smooth, 

 transparent ; hinder part of the back bluntly keeled ; verte- 

 bral plates broad, six-sided ; margin revolute, raised and 



expanded over the hinder legs. Beneath ? Sternimi 



yellow, with dark-edged variegations on the central line, and 

 sinuated, subconcentric, dark-edged bands on the front part. 

 Head small, olive ; forehead flat ; nose very short ; lower 

 bfak with several pale cross bands in front. Neck and legs 

 yellowish olive ; fore-legs with one or two broad pale 

 streaks ; three middle claws of fore feet very long, straight, 

 subulate. 



Hub. N. America? 



a. Adult (stuffed). Obtained alive from a dealer at Nantes, 

 '.vlio said it was from the South of Europe ? 



Tropical or South America. 



\ Back uniform coloured ; margins and sternum often 

 variegated ; submarginal rings sutural when present. 



29. Emys decussata. The Hicotee. 



Shell oblong, bluntly keeled, hinder edge slightly toothed ; 

 dorsal shields rugulose, irregularly radiately grooved, uni- 

 form pale brown, beneath yellowish, with obscure subocel- 

 late spots on the axillary, inguinal, and on the suture of the 

 marginal plates. Animal greenish ; cheek and throat indi- 

 stinctly pale lined ; front of the fore legs with a series of 

 broad transverse shields. 



Emys decussata, Bell, Test. t. I . 



Gr(>y,Syn.28; inGriffith,A.K.\.; Cat. Tort. B.M.24. 



Bum. ^ Bib. Erp. Gen. ii. 2/9 ; Cat. Meth. R.\\. 



Sayra, Cuba Rept. t. 1 . 

 Testudo serrata. Baud. Rept. (not figure). 

 Emys serrata, var., Schweig. 



Sc/ilegel, Faun. Japan. 58. 



Hab. West Indies ; Cuba ; Guadaloupe ; St. Domingo. 



a. Half-grown (stuffed). Sternum in a bad state from 

 confinement in a menagerie. West India Islands. 

 Presented by Dr. J. E. Gray. 



j. Adult (stuffed). Sternum discoloured. St. Domingo. 

 From the Paris Collection. 



/r. ? Very young (in spirits). Uniform pale yellow. Tro- 

 pical America. 



I. 1 Very young (dry). Uniform pale yellow. Tropical 

 America. 



Osteology. Skull, Tab. XXXVI. fig. 2. 



b. Half-grown shell, from animal in confinement. America; 



West Indies. 



c. Adult (skeleton). Sternum and lower side of marginal 



plates with dark rings. West Indies. Presented by 

 Dr. J. E. Gray. 



d. Adult (shell only). Sternum discoloured. V\'est Indies? 



e. Adult (shell only). Sternal and lower side of marginal 



shield with irregular rings ; some indistinct large ob- 

 long sutural spots on the upper part of the marginal 

 plates. West ludies. 



f. Half-grown shell. Sternum discoloured. West Indies. 



g. Adult (shell only). Sternum discoloured and eroded. 



West Indies. From the Zoological Society's Gardens. 



/(. Half-grown (shell only). Back dark ; sternum much 

 eroded. West Indies. Presented by Thomas Bell, 



Esq. 



Emys decussata. Bell. 



i. Adult (skeleton). The upper part of the marginal shield 

 with vcryiudistinct, and lower part more distinct, square 

 annulate d sutural spots ; sternum with distinct irregu- 



