HEEPETOLOGY OF PORTO ETOO. 



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1844. ?Jmys vermkxdaia Gray, Cat. Tort. Brit. Mas., p. 2'^ ( "trnjncal America"); 



Cat. Shield Rept. Brit. Mus., 1855, pi. xiii. 

 1861. Eini/f<j(iinan Dumekil, Arch. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. Pari.s, X, 1861, pp. 435, 445 



(Habaiia; nomen nudutn). — Vilaro, in Poey's Repert. Fisico-Nat. 



Cuba, II, No. 6, May, 1867, p. 121; No. 10, Nov., 1867, p. 228. 

 1867. Emilia gridtltoY iIjAHO, in Poey's Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cul)a, II, Xi>. !l, Oct., 



1867, p. 204 (Cuba). 

 1889. Chrysemys scripta var. riigosa Boulen(;er, Cat. C'liel. P>rit. Muh., ]>. 79 



(Santo Dominion I, Jamaica). 



Fig. 179. — Pseudemeys pahtstris, adult. .1 natural sizf. .^hell from above. No. 25(142, T'.S.N.M. 



Description.- — Adult female; U.S.N.M. No. 25642; San Juan: Jan- 

 uary 14, 1899. Shell moderately convex, the height being more than 

 one-half the greatest width; length of carapace less than two and a half 

 times the height of the sliell and about one and one-third times its 

 greatest width; carapace faintly keeled and with longitudinal wrinkles 

 crossed b}' radiating ridges, which are especially strong on the anterior 

 costals; nuchal narrow; first vertebral shield urceolate, anterior and 

 posterior sutures of same length; lateral sutures of second, third, and 



