Species of North American Tortoises. lOl 



short distance from its origin, including in the bifurcation a 

 narrower one of the same colour ; aside of this bifurcated line 

 is another narrow one, and outside of that another, which bi- 

 furcates forwards at the angle of the mouth, one branch run- 

 ning along the lower jaw, and the other upwards towards the 

 eye. Eyes yellow, with a broad, black stripe through the 

 middle. Legs and tail scaly, striped with yellow ; tail very 

 short. Feet palmate, five-toed ; claws, 5-4. 



Plates of the margin twenty-five ; of the sternum twelve. 



Length, one foot three inches ; height, seven inches and a 

 half. 



Inhabits in St. John's river of East Florida, and has been 

 confounded by Mr. Say with the next. 



3. Testudo rubriventris, I,, c. 



Testa ovalis, posterius dilatata, ecarinata, longitudinaliter ru- 

 gosa, fusco-nigra, hneis irregularibus, latis, perpendicularibus, 

 maculisque confluentibus rubris notata : scutellum intermedium 

 marginale, lineare, serratum, dentibus parvis quinque vel sex ; 

 maxilla inferior dentata. 



Emys serrata, Say, Journ. of the Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil. 

 Vol. IV. part. 2. Red-bellied Tarapin, vulg. 



Shell moderately gibbous, oval, wider and emarguiate be- 

 hind, ecarinate, longitudinally rugous, dusky, vai'ied with con- 

 fluent spots, and broad irregular lines of red, or red varied in 

 the same mannen- with dusky. First vertebral plate narrower 

 than the rest, urceolate, six-sided ; the three next six-sided ; the 

 fifth seven-sided : lateral plates large, the first nearly triangular, 

 the rest subrhomboidal, with their inferior sides a little angled : 



