iOO species of North American Tortoises. 



bid its being considered as any other. I have, therefore, re- 

 stored to it what I consider the original Linnaean denomination. 

 Although the name is not unobjectionable, yet any thing is 

 preferable to the ridiculous appellation of Polyphemus. 



The young ones have a prominent boss in the centre of 

 each of the plates, vsrhich are also deeply marked with con- 

 centric striae : from one of these Schoepff has made his T. 

 tabulata. 



2. Testudo floridana, l. c. 



Testa ovalis, ecarinata, longitudinaliter rugosa, fusco-nigra 

 lineis irregularibus flavis notata, lateralibus f>lus minus radian- 

 tibus ; scutellum intermedium marginale triangulare, integer- 

 rimum ; maxilla inferior edentula. 



Shell gibbous, oval, slightly cmarginate behind, ecarinate, lon- 

 gitudinally rugous, dark brown, with numerous irregular lines 

 of yellow, those on the lateral plates more or less radiating. 

 First vertebral plate seven-sided, urceolate, the smallest side 

 anterior, the posterior angle a little re-entering ; the second 

 and third oblong, four-sided, angled on the sides ; fourth five- 

 sided ; fifth triangularly seven-sided : lateral plates large, the 

 first triangular, the rest oblong ; intermediate marginal plate 

 triangular, wider behind, the first five-sided, the rest oblong or 

 square. Sternum yellow, emarginate behind, scapular plates 

 triangular,"a little projecting at the exterior and anterior angle ; 

 brachial plates triangular, with the apicds truncate ; pectoral, 

 abdominal, femoral, and caudal, oblong, four-sided ; marginal 

 plates beneath yellow, with each a large black spot, including 

 a yellow one. Skin dusky, head and neck striped with yel- 

 low, chin and throat paler, nearly cinereous ; a broad yellow 

 stripe commences at the point of the former and bifurcates a 



