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plate distinct; sternum flat, rounded on the sides, black, with a 
broad yellow band, forming a.ring round the margin. 
Hab. Esmeraldas, Ecuador. 
The adult shell has much the external appearance of a Land 
Tortoise of the genus Testudo, but it has the divided caudal plate of 
the Emyde. The nuclei of the vertebral plates are posterior and 
submarginal ; those of the costal plates are placed in the upper hinder 
angle ; the horny shields of these plates are concentrically grooved. 
The sternum is flat, rather suddenly bent up and truncated in front, 
and slightly curved, and with a deep triangular notch behind: the 
broad yellow ring on this part gives it a very distinct appearance. 
The young specimen, with the animal preserved in spirits, is 
black like the adult, but the back is much lower and rather concave 
in the middle, with a very strong, yellow, rounded keel. The hinder 
margin is slightly, and the front lateral margin is strongly, turned 
up at the edge. The head is rather small and black, the crown, the 
temple, and the neck being varied with broad white streaks or spots. 
The limbs are black, with a few broad white streaks and some white 
spots. The front of the fore legs is covered with cross rows of 
large scales; the soles of the feet with larger scales ; the rest of the 
legs is covered with small granular scales ; the hinder edge of the fore 
feet with three or four acute shields ; the outer edge of the hind feet, 
marking the rudimentary outer hind toe, is edged with larger shields. 
Toes 5-4, short, thick, conical, only very slightly webbed at the 
base, and covered above and on the sides with three series of rather 
large shields. Tail short, conical, with rings of small black scales. 
7. DESCRIPTION OF A New SPECIES oF EMYS LATELY LIVING IN 
Troe GARDENS OF THE ZootocicaAL Society. By Dr. J. 
E. Gray, F.R.S., V.P.Z.S., etc. 
(Reptilia, Pl. XXX.) 
The British Museum has lately received from the Zoological So- 
ciety a specimen of an Emys which has recently died in the Gardens. 
It is believed to have been one of five specimens brought from Egypt 
by C. W. Domville, Esq., in 1852; but this is not certain. It is 
quite distinct from any which have hitherto come under my obser- 
vation. 
Emys FuLiGinosus, (Pl. XXX.) 
Depressed, flexible, black. Shields convex, rather irregular, with 
deep, irregular, subeoncentric grooves of unequal depression. Under- 
side black, with white blotches on the front margin of the sternum 
and on the inner edge of the central marginal plates near the sterno- 
costal suture, and a small irregular white blotch on the middle of the 
under side of the front marginal plates. Head rather depressed ; 
crown covered with a continuous, smooth, rather horny skin. Jaws 
mottled with sinuous white lines or spots; sides of the neck with 
