1869. ] DR. J. E. GRAY ON EMYS FLAVIPES. 643 
11. Description of Emys flavipes. 
By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. &e. 
(Plate L.) 
The Zoological Society have lately received, as a present from the 
Rev. Basil Wilberforce, a series of four specimens of a freshwater 
Tortoise, which have been for several years in his possession. They 
belong to a most distinct species, and one which has never before 
come under my observation and is easily known by its beautiful lined 
head and neck, the presence of a spot behind the eye, and a distinct 
ring round the tympanum, the bright orange-colour on the underside 
of the fore legs, and the narrow orange streak on the suture between 
the end of the abdominal and the marginal plates, and the blackness 
of the underside of the margin and the sternum. I propose to call it 
Emys Fuavipes. (Plate L.) 
The crown olive, sides of the face greenish, with a narrow streak 
from the nostril through the eye extending on the side of the back 
of the neck. Another streak from the lower side of the eyes to the 
angle of the mouth, a short streak from the sides of the heak. The 
under beak with a forked streak on each side, a broader transverse 
band behind it; one long oval spot on the hinder part of the side 
of the jaw. A line on each side of the temple, an oval spot behind 
each eye, and a ring round the ear, extending behind into a longi- 
tudinal streak. Pupil round, with a square spot on each side, forming 
a band obliquely across the eye; neck olive with obscure reddish 
spots ; sides of the neck and throat with orange streaks. Legs black, 
varied with orange ; the lower side of the fore legs orange ; the tail 
tapering, with orange lines. Thorax oblong, bluntly keeled ; the keel 
narrower and more prominent behind. Above pale olive-brown, 
slightly waved with reddish on the middle of the shield, more marked 
where it makes a distinct square spot in the middle of the first ver- 
tebral shield; the lateral margin slightly revolute and the hinder edge 
entire ; the underside of the marginal shields and the sternum black, 
with more or less white on the lateral margin of the latter ; the su- 
ture between the abdominal and the marginal plates marked by a 
distinct narrow orange streak. 
The different specimens vary in the quantity of white on the ster- 
num ; in one the sternum is nearly white, clouded with black. 
In the British Museum there is a specimen of a young Terrapin 
brought by Mr. Fraser from North Africa, which is very similar to 
the above, and has the same black underside of the margin; but its 
neck has many much narrower streaks, and there is no spot behind 
the eye or rings round the ear. This specimen appears to indicate 
the existence of another species, which may be called Emys fraseri. 
In the same collection there is a young specimen of Terrapin in spirit 
that was brought home in the Euphrates expedition, which is some- 
what like the above, but there are indications of dark rings on the 
discal plates. The sternum is black, edged with white ; the whole of 
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