

BULLETIN 



OF THE 



ESSEX INSTITUTE 



Vol.23. Salem : July-Dec, 1891. Nos. 7-12. 



ON A TORTOISE FOUND IN FLORIDA AND 

 CUBA, Cinostemum Baurii. 



BY S. GARMAN. 



In the collections of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 

 at Cambridge, Mass., there is a series of ten or twelve 

 specimens of a species of Cinosternnm that is not properly 

 designated by any of the names heretofore in use. The 

 lot was collected on the island Key West. Whether the 

 type has a wider distribution in Florida will have to be 

 determined later. On examining these specimens for iden- 

 tification, and on comparison with the allied species, C. 

 pennsylvanicum and others, they are found to belong with 

 a specimen from Cuba described by me in 1887 (Proceed- 

 ings of the American Philosophical Society, page 286) as 

 a possible representative of a new species, to which only 

 the generic name was attached. The series at hand shows 

 the characters then assigned to be valid for the purpose of 

 distinction and in great measure dissipates the uncertainty 

 concerning the extent of individual peculiarities. The 



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