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4. Clemmys bealii. 



Cistuda bealii, Gray, Si/n. Rept. p. 71 (1831). 



Emy3 bealii, Gray, Pruc. Zool. Soc. 1834, p. 54 ; Dum. Sf Bihr. ii. 



p. 323 (18:35) ; Grw/, Cat. Tort. p. 17 (1841), and Cat. Sh. Rept. 



1. p. 21, pi. viii. (18o5) ; Giinth. Rept. Brit. Lid. p. 23 (1864). 

 Clemiuys bealii, Strauch, Chelon. Stud. p. 32 (18G2). 

 Sacalia'bealii, Gray, Suj>pl. Cat. Sh. Rept. i. p. 35 (1870). 



Carapace moderately depressed, obtusely keeled behind, rather 

 elongate, smooth ; posterior margin not serrated ; vertebral shields 

 much broader than long, as broad as the costals ; nuchal narrow. 

 Plastron large, truncate anteriorly, openly emarginate posteriorly ; 

 the width of the bridge equals the length of the hind lobe ; abdo- 

 minal shields much larger than the pectorals ; the longest median 

 suture is that between the abdominals, the shortest that between 

 the gulars or the humerals ; the suture between the anals longer 

 than that between the t'emorals ; axillary small, inguinal minute or 

 absent. Head moderate; upper jaw neither hooked nor notched; 

 the width of the mandible at the symphysis equals the diameter of 

 the orbit. Digits webbed to the claws. Tail about one fourth the 

 length of the shell in the female. Carapace yellowish brown, closely 

 speckled and lanceolated with black ; plastron yellowish, dotted or 

 spotted "with black ; head yellowish brown, speckled with black ; 

 a black, yellow-edged ocellus on each side of the occiput ; xippcr 

 and lower jaw vertically lineolated with black ; neck with light 

 longitudinal streaks, three on the upper surface. 



Length of shell 14 centim. 



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5. Clemmys insculpta. 



Emys pulchella (twn Schoepff), Schiceigcj. Prodr. p. 34 (1814) ; Dum. 



»^ Bibr. ii. p. 251 (1835) ; Gray, Cat. Tort. p. 20 (1844). 



scabra {non L.), Say, Journ. Ac. Philad. iv. p. 204 (1825). 



Terrapene soabra, Bonnp. Osseru. ,s. Sec. Ed. d. R. A. p. 157 (1830). 

 Testudo iusculpta, Leconfe, Ann. Lye. N. Y. iii. p. 112 (1830). 

 Emys speciosa, Gray, Syn. Liept. p. 26 (1831). 

 iusculpta, Harlan, Med. Phys. Res. p. 152 (1836) ; Ilolbr. N. 



Am. llerp. i. p. 03, pi. xiii. (1842) ; Dekay, Faun. N. York, Rept. 



p. 14, pi. iv. fig. 8 (1842) ; Wied, N. Acta Ac. Leop.-Carol. xxxii. i. 



p. 11 (1865). 

 Geoclemmys pulchella, Gray, Cat. Sh. Rept. i. p. 18 (1865). 

 Glyptemys insculpta, Ayassiz, Contr. N. H. JJ. S. i. p. 443 (1857). 

 Clemmys insculpta, Strauch, Chelon. Stud. p. 104 (1862), and Verth. 



Schildkr. p. 66 (1865). 

 Glyptemys pulchella, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 196, an I Suppl. 



Cat. Sh. Rept. i. p. 28 (1870). 

 Chelopus insculptus, Cope, Check-List N. Am. Rept, p. 53 (1875). 



Carapace rather strongly depressed, flattened on the vertebral 



