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pale brown, lined and ringed with yellow ; the vertebral shields 

 with a narrow central row of rings and a larger series on each side ; 

 the costal shields brown, white-lined, the marginal ones with con- 

 centric slightly eyed squarish brown rings placed upon the suture 

 and occupying half of two shields ; beneath pale, with an irregu- 

 lar brown spot and lines placed on the sutures ; sternum rounded 

 before truncated behind ; head with numerous unequal white lines. 

 a. Young, dry. Inhabits ? 



The Eyed Emys. Emys oculifera, Gray, Syn. 22. Testudo 

 oculifera, Kuhl, Beitr. 77 



Shell (very young) hemispherical, strongly toothed behind ; 

 shields elevated, furrowed, granulated, grooved, each two connect- 

 ed longitudinally by a largish round black spot, and horizontally 

 by a largish black circle, consequently each displaying two half 

 eyes and anteriorly and posteriorly two half spots; margin with a 

 spot on each suture, the points of which correspond with the spot 

 on the costal shield ; sternum yellow, with dark brown spots and 

 streaks. 



Inhabits S. Africa, Cape of Good Hope ? Mus. Berlin. 



Kuhl's Emys. Emys Kuhlii, Gray, Syn. 73, 

 Shell brown, with two broad white long streaks on each side of 

 the vertebral plates and one on each costal, netted with pale lines, 

 margin half-ringed on the suture ; sternum with irregular black- 

 eyed rings in the centre of each plate ; the head and neck black- 

 lined. 



Inhabits ? Mus. Berl. 



3. Malaclemys. 



Head very large, depressed, covered with a soft spongy skin. 

 Jaws exposed. Chin not bearded. Legs short. Toes 5-4, short, 

 webbed, claws subequal, curved, sharp. Tail conical. Shell de- 

 pressed, oblong. Sternum solid, truncated before nicked behind, 

 affixed by a bony symphysis. Axillary and unguinal plates dis- 

 tinct. Living in salt-water marshes, moves quickly on land. 

 Torpid in winter. Egg oval : flesh well flavoured. America. 



Salt-water Terrapin. Malaclemys concentrica. Testu- 

 do concentrica, Shaw, Gen. Zool. iii. 43, t. 9,/. 1. Gray, Syn. 

 27. Bell, Test. t. . Dum.et Bib. E.G. ii. 261. Terrapin, Brown, 

 Jam. 466. Le Terrepine, Lacep. Q. O. i. 129. T. Terrapin, 

 Schoepf. Test. 64, t. 1 5. Holbrook, N. A. Herpet. ii. 1 3, t. 2. T. 

 palwstris, Gmel. S. N. i. 1041 ? Leconte, Ann. Lye. N. Y. iii. T. 

 centrata, Latr. R. i. 145. Daud. R. ii. 153. Schweigr, i.304. Say 

 I. A. N. S. Phil. iv. 205. Emys livida, Bell, MSS. 



Shell oval, rather convex, slightly tubercularly keeled ; shields 

 (and the bone under them) pale yellow, marked with brown con- 



