CLASS III. EEPTILIA. 



OEDEE 1. CHELONIA. (Tortoises.) 



Dorsum large, depressed; heart-shaped; covered with 

 strong horny plates ; feet depressed like fins. 



EMYS. Fresh Water Tortoises. 



Gen. Emys. Fresh Water Tortoises. 



Dorsum low, flat ; five plates on the back ; twenty-five 

 along the sides ; shield on the breast oval, consisting of five 

 plates ; five toes on each foot, of which all the front ones, 

 and four behind, are furnished with pointed claws ; cheeks 

 horny; tail short, scaled. 



1. EMYS LUTAKIA, Bon. Karr Skolpadda. 



Length, 6 to 7 in. ; breadth, 5 in. ; colour blackish 

 brown. 



Is met with no longer in Scandinavia at the present day, 

 and although fossil remains are occasionally dug up in the 

 turf mosses of the South, has no more right to be included 

 in the present fauna, than the now extinct Ursus Spelceus 

 or Bos Urus. 



OEDEE 2. SAUEIA. (Lizards.) 



Consists of many groups or sub-orders; of these the 

 Scandinavian fauna owns only one. 



Sub -order Sauri Squamati. 



Body covered with scales; head above, with plates; 

 mouth small, furnished with teeth; ears either apparent 



