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naturalist, and very frequently incorrect in liis observations. 

 He may be eiToneous here, and I think his figure evidently 

 shows that the specimen from which it was taken was not in a 

 very recent state ; the feet, therefore, may have been shrunk 

 and drawn up, and some of their parts portrayed from me- 

 mory, which in this case may have been treacherous. In the 

 meantime it becomes our duty to search diligently for this 

 animal, and to remove the obscurity which hangs over it. 



II. TESTUDO. 



1. TeSTUDO CAROLINA. 



Testa valde convexa, dorso plana, fuscescenti-flavida, satu- 

 ratiore nebulata, scutis marginalibus posterioribus depresso- 

 incurvis, duobus postremis coadunatis ; sternum anterius por- 

 rectum, posterius profunde emarginatum : caput gehaeque squa- 

 mis obtecta : cauda brevissima. 



Testtido Polyphemus, Daudin. T. Tabulata, Schoepff. 56, 

 t. xiii. a young one. * Mungofa, vulg. 



Shell very convex, flat on the top, bent inwards behind, and 

 entire, brownish yellow, somewhat clouded with darker ; the 

 plates, particularly the lateral and marginal ones, marked with 



* The letter 6 in this word has the sound of the French on, or the En- 

 glish 00. 



