CATALOGUE OF SHIELD REPTILES. 



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lar-shaped symmetrical rings. St. Domingo. From 

 the Paris Collection. 



" Emys decussata ? ," Mus. Paris. 



m. Adult (shell). Back dark brown ; upper part of the 

 margin with obscure, lower with very distinct obloug 

 spots on the suture of the plates ; sternum with irre- 

 gular-shaped symmetrical rings and scattered black 

 spots. West Indies. Presented by Dr. J. E. Gray. 



The heads of both the skeletons are large, and the space 

 between the branches of the lower jaw is wide and rounded 

 in front, very unlike the small head and the narrower and 

 more acute space between the branches of the lower jaw in 

 E. ruffosa. 



The animal and shell are well figured from life by Mr. 

 Bell. The head, neck and feet are blackish olive, the fore 

 legs alone having some obscure indications of broad yellow 

 streaks, but the animal may have been in confinement. 

 The under surface of the marginal plate has some indistinct 

 sutural rings. 



M. R. de Sagra (Cuba Rept. t. 1) evidently figures the 

 same species as the Hicotee. 



ft Back wiiform or black spotted; sterna! and fower side 

 of marginal plates dark-edged, sometimes spotted. 



30. Emys rugosa. The Dark Hicotee. 



Shell ovate, oblong, rather tubercularly keeled, hinder 

 edge slightly serrated ; sternum brown, sometimes dark- 

 spotted ; shield dark-edged ; shields rugulose, areola in- 

 distinct, margin dark-edged ; vertebral shields : first long, 

 urceolate ; second, third aud fourth long, six-sided ; fifth 

 broad, six-sided ; marginal shields yellow, black-dotted. 

 " Animal brown ; head and nape greyish, with a pale streak 

 from the back of each eye." — Sagra. 



Emys rugosa. Gray, Syn. 30 ; Cat. Tort. B.M. 24. 



Dim. 4- Bib. Erp. Gen. ii. 284 ; Cat. Meth. R. 12. 



Sagra, Cuba Rept. t. 2. 

 Testudo rugosa. Sham, Zool. iii. 28. t. 4. 



Hab. West Indies ; Cuba; Jamaica? 



Far. 1. Back mottled and Uned ; sternal shield one-co- 

 loured, with a distinct dark edge. 

 Emys rugosa, Sagra. 



Far. 2. Back spotless or with a few scattered round spots ; 



the dorsal, marginal and sternal shields with a regular 



dark brown edge. 

 Emys rugosa, Gosse, Jam. 189. 



a. Adult (stuffed). Claws slender ; sternum eroded. West 

 Indies. From the Zoological Society. 



Osteology : — 



b. Adult (skeleton). Three middle front claws very long, 



slender, compressed. St. Domingo. From the Paris 

 Museum. 



"Emys decussata (J," Mus. Paris. 



c. Half-grown (shell only). Back and sternum rather dis- 



coloured. West Indies. 



Far. 3. Back brown, closely black-dotted ; sternum and 

 under side of margin very closely spotted ; sternal 

 shields dark-edged. 



Emys vermiculata. Gray, Cat. Tort. B.M. 26. 



d. Shell only (adult). West Indies? 



]M. R. de Sagra {Rept. Cuba, t. 2) represents the head 

 as having a pale central frontal streak and a broad pale 

 band from the hinder edge of the orbit. 



The shell is vermiculated with black above, and with 

 regular dark edges to the sternal shields and the lower side 

 of the marginal shields. 



The head is much smaller than in E. rugosa, and the 

 branches of the lower jaw are not so wide apart or so much 

 rounded in front. 



tff Shell one-coloured ; sternum black, yelloio on the sides 

 and margin; lower margin variegated. 



31. Emys scabra. The Rough Emys. 

 Shell oblong, convex, brown, slightly keeled, flattish 

 above, and shelving on the sides ; shields blackish-edged ; 

 nuchal very short ; vertebral keeled, the first produced in 

 front between the marginal plates. Head blackish, with an 

 orange spot on each nostril, a band over each eyebrow, and 

 a large spot on each side of the nape ; tail short. 



Emys scabra, Gray, Syn. 25 ; Cut. Tort. B.M. 20. 

 Testudo scabra, Latr. Rept. i. 148. 



Baud. Rept. iii. 129. 



Bell, Test. t. 1, 2, adult. 

 La Raboteuse, Lacep. Q. O. i. 161. t. 10, young. 

 Testudo verrucosa, Latr. Rept.i. 1.56. 



Daud. Rept. ii. 134. 

 Emys dorsata, Schoepf. Test. 136. 



Schweig. Prod. i. 297-42.5. 

 Testudo punctularia, Daud. Rept. ii. 549. 



Schweig. Prod. 305. 



Graif, 'Syn. 2.5. 13. 



Dmn. S^-Bib. Erp. Ghi. ii. 243; Cat. Meth. R. 9. 



Schlegel, Faun. Japan. 55. 

 Rhinochlemys (punctularia), Fitc. 



nab. Tropical America ; Cayenne ; Brazils. 



a. Very young ; just hatched (stuffed). Areola rugose, 

 closely and minutely tubercular. South America. 



Lacep. Q. O. t. 10. 



