148 Zoological Society :— 
DescripTION oF A New Species or GEOCLEMMYS FROM 
Ecuapor. By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S., V.P.Z.S., erc. 
Mr. Cuming has lately sent to the Museum two shells of a species 
of Freshwater Tortoise, and a younger specimen, ‘iin spirits, of the 
same animal, obtained by Mr. Fraser at Esmeraldas, on the western 
coast of Ecuador. 
GEOCLEMMYS ANNULATA. 
Shell oblong, subquadrangular, black, slightly and irregularly 
varied with yellow; the vertebral plates square, almost as long as 
broad, with a compressed flat-topped anterior keel, highest on the 
fourth vertebral plate, which is narrower behind ; margin sub-entire, 
with a triangular yellow spot on the under side of each plate ; nuchal 
plate distinct; sternum flat, rounded on the sides, black, with a 
broad yellow band, forming a ring round the margin. 
Hab. Esmeraldas, Ecuador. 
The adult shell has much the external appearance of a Land 
Tortoise of the genus Testudo, but it has the divided caudal plate of 
the Emyde. The nuclei of the vertebral plates are posterior and 
submarginal ; those of the costal plates are placed in the upper hinder 
angle ; the horny shields of these plates are concentrically grooved. 
The sternum is flat, rather suddenly bent up and truncated in front, 
and slightly curved and with a deep triangular notch behind: the 
broad yellow ring on this part gives it a very distinct appearance. 
The young specimen, with the animal preserved in spirits, is 
black like the adult, but the back is much lower and rather concave 
in the middle, with a very strong, yellow, rounded keel. The hinder 
margin is slightly, and the front lateral margin is strongly, turned 
up at the edge. The head is rather small and black, the crown, the 
temple, and the neck being varied with broad white streaks or spots. 
The limbs are black, with a few broad white streaks and some white 
spots. The front of the fore legs is covered with cross rows of 
large scales; the soles of the feet with larger scales; the rest of the 
legs is covered with small granular scales ; the hinder edge of the fore 
feet with three or four acute shields ; the outer edge of the hind feet, 
marking the rudimentary outer hind toe, is edged with larger shields. 
Toes 5-4, short, thick, conical, only very slightly webbed at the 
base, and covered above and on the sides with three series of rather 
large shields. Tail short, conical, with rings of small black scales. 
DeEscrRIPTION oF A NEw SPECIES OF EMyYS LATELY LIVING IN 
THE GARDENS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL Society. By Dr. J. 
E. Gray, F.R.S., V.P.Z.S., ere. 
‘The British Museum has lately received from the Zoological So- 
ciety a specimen of an Emys which has recently died in the Gardens. 
It is believed to have been one of five specimens brought from Egypt 
by C. W. Domville, Esq., in 1852; but this is not certain. It is 
