106 Species of North American Tortoises. 



black ; top of the head and sides of the neck striped with 

 yellow, the stripes on the former narrow, faint, and curved at 

 their origin, except one extending from the nose to the middle 

 of the cranium, which is straight, broader, and more distinct^ 

 and generally connected with another transverse one, which 

 runs across the top of the nose between the eyes ; upper jaw 

 a little emarginate, the lower half yellow, the remainder black, 

 with a few faint, indistinct yellow lines ; lower jaw and throaty 

 black, the latter with three yellow stripes, the intermediate one 

 bifurcating a little from its origin, the others lateral, nearly 

 parallel, each bifurcating upwards to the eye near the joint of 

 the jaw, and joining a lai^e yellow spot on the cheek. Eyes 

 yellow, with a broad black stripe through the middle. Legs 

 and tail scaly ; fore legs with three or four yellow stripes on 

 the upper side, and sometimes as many beneath ; hind legs 

 beneath yellow, sometimes varied with black, with an abbrevi- 

 ated yellow line on the upper side near the edge ; soles of the 

 feet generally black. Tail short, yellow underneath, with a 

 line of the same color on the top, which towards the base is 

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



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



Length one foot, height six inches. 



Inhabits the southern states in rivers aud swamps ; its most 

 northern range appears to be the southern part of Virginia. — 

 It is more numerous than the T. reticulata, but is not so good 

 for food, its flesh being drier and less sapid. We are indebted 

 for the first description of this animal likewise to M. Bosc. 



6. Testudo concinna, l. c. 



Testa Isevissima, glabra, ovalis, ecarinata, fusco-nigra, lineis 

 maculisque flavis plus minus confluentibus, et subreticulatis : 

 coUum flavo Hneatum, linea laterali anterius bifurcata. 



