120 Species of North American Tortoises. 



of the wings very small, the posterior one scarcely perceptible. 

 Skin black, cheeks and sides of the back part of the head 

 with a large irregular orange spot extending to the neck : jaws- 

 with a few spots of red, the upper one emarginate. Legs and 

 tail scaly, the former varied on the inner side with red ; toes 

 and tail varied on the top with the same ; irids brown. Feet 

 palmate, five-toed ; claws 5-4. 



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



Length three inches and- a half, height one inch and a 

 quarter. 



Inhabits New- Jersey and Pennsylvania in clear streams ; is 

 not very common : the old ones are frequently almost entirely 

 smooth. This species was sent to Schoepff by the Rev. H. 

 Muhlenberg, so deservedly celebrated foi' his botanical know- 

 ledge ; Schoepff, however, very strangely considered it as a 

 variety of the T, punctata. 



13. Testudo pensylvanica. 



Testa ovalis, laevis, dorso plana, ecarinata, nigra vel fusca, 

 scutis vertebralibus imbricatis. Sternum utplurimum antice 

 et postice mobile. Caput magnum, obtusum, maxilla superiore 

 hamata :^brachia duabus plicfs vdLsquamis magnis posterioribus j 

 Cauda apice ungulata. 



Testudo lutaria pensylvanica, Edward's Gleanings, Part IL p. 

 77. tab. cclxxxvii. T. tricarinata, Schoepff, is probably a 

 young one. Kinosternon pensylvanicum, Bell, Zool. Journal, 

 No. VIL Cistudo ji^nsylvanica, Say, loco citato. Terrapene 

 pensylvanica, Merrem. Mud tortoise, Pennant Arctic 

 Zoology, Supplem. p. 80. Mud tarapin of the southern 

 states. 



