36* CLOSE TORTOISE. 



a very strongly marked elevated carina, projecting 

 almost into a tubercle on the back of each : this 

 carina is of a yellow or pale colour, resembling 

 that of the zones before mentioned. The mar- 

 ginal pieces are twenty-five in number, includ- 

 ing the uppermost, which is extremely small. 



CLOSE TORTOISE. 



Testudo Clausa. T. testa nigricante, muculis diffbrmibus svbcon- 



fertls Jtavis, carina dorsali obtusa, sterno bvoahi loricam occlu- 



dente. 

 Tortoise with blackish shell, irregularly spotted with yellow, 



with obtuse dorsal carina, and bivalve under-shcll com- 

 pletely closing the upper. 

 Testudo clausa. T. testa avali gibba, dorsi scutellis carinatis, 



sterno bivaki, loricam ocdudente. Schoepf. Hist. Testud. p. 32. 



*. 7. 

 Testudo Carolina. T. pedibus digitatis, testa gibba, cauda nulla. 



Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 352. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 1041. 

 Testudo clausa. T. disci scutellis carinatis, sterno vix repando, 



valvularum ope ad scutum apprimcndo. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 



p. 1042. 

 Dosen-Schildkroete. Block. Schrift. Eerl. Nat. Fr. 7. p. 131. 



t. l. 

 Land Tortoise from Carolina. Edit:, pi. 205. 



THE Close Tortoise obtains its name from the 

 unusual manner in which the unfler part of the 

 shell is applied to the upper ; being continued in 

 such a manner round the margin, that when the 

 animal withdraws its head and legs, it is enabled 

 accurately to close all parts of the shell entirely 



