13 CLASS REPTILIA. 



Its carapace is oval, not very convex, pretty smooth, 

 blackish, and altogether sown with yellowish points 

 disposed in rays. It is about two inches long. Its 

 flesh is an article of food, and for that purpose it is 

 reared on bread and young herbs ; it also eats insects, 

 slugs, small fish, &c. Marsigli says, that its eggs 

 take a year before the young are excluded. 



The Painted Tortoise. Test, Picta. Schoepf., pi. 4. 



Is one of the handsomest species. It is smooth, 

 brown, and each of its scales is surrounded with a 

 yellow band, very broad at the anterior edge. It 

 is found in North America, along streams, on 

 rocks, and trunks of trees, from which it lets itself 

 drop into the water as soon as it is approached.* 

 We must remark, among the fresh water tortoises, 



* Add : Em. lufaria, Lacep., pi. 4 ; — Em, Adansonii, Schweig ; Em. 

 Senegalensis, Dumer ; — Em. subrufa, Lacep., xiii. ; — Em. contractu, 

 Schweig; — Em. punctata, Schoep., 5; — Em. reticulata, Lecontej — Em. 

 rubriventris, id. ; — Em. serrata, Daud. ii , xxi. ; — Em. concinna, Lee. or 

 geometrica, Lesueur; — Eyn. pseudogeograpMca, Lesueur; Em. scripta, 

 Schoepf,. iii., 4;— Em. scabra, id., iii. ; — Em. ciiierea, id., ii., 5. — Em. cen- 

 trata, Daud., ox terrapen, Lin. Schoepf., xv. ; — Em concentrica, Lee. ; — 

 Em. Odorata, id. ; — Em. fusca, Lesueur ; — Em. leprosa, Schw. ; — Em. 

 nasuta, id. ; — Em, dorsata, Schoep. ; — Em. pulchella, Schoep., xxvi., or 

 insculpta,hec. ; — Em. Iutesce7is,^chw. ; — E771. expama,'id.; — Etn. viacqua- 

 ria, Cuv. 



M. Fitzinger separates under the name of Chelodina, and Mr. Bell 

 under that of Hydbaspis, the species with more elongated neck, such as, 

 Em. longicoUis, Shaw ; Em. planiceps, Schoep, or canaliculata, Spix, viii. ; — 

 Em jjlaticejihala, Merrem ; — Em. dcpressa, Spix, iii., 2 ; — Em. carunculata, 

 Aug. St. Hil. ', — Em. tritentacula, id. 



