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bility of giving these two species as citizens of the Bay 
‘State. I have not studied them carefully enough to be 
authority.” i: 
Having erased the above mentioned species, and intro- 
duced three Tortoises, two Colubers, one Heterodon, one 
Rana, one Hylodes, four Salamanders, and one Scincus, 
which were not noticed in the catalogue referred to, the 
Herpetology of our State, as. far as I have been able to 
learn, is composed of fourteen genera and thirty-nine spe- 
cies. More extended investigation will undoubtedly ascer- 
tain the existence here of new species, as well as of many 
which have been already described by naturalists. 
ORDER I. 
CHELONIA. 
Emys.  Brogniart. 
Generic characters. Shell depressed, solid ; ster- 
num broad, solid, immovable, firmly joined to the 
shell, consisting of twelve plates, and four supple- 
mental ones ; extremities palmated, anterior with 
_ five nails, postair with four; head of ordinary 
size ; tail long. 
wi E. guttata. Schneider. 
+> Shaw’s Gen. Zoology, vol. iii. pt. 1. p. 47, et fig. 
E. Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. Y. vol. iii. p. 117. 
A + Harlan's Med. and Phys. Res. p. 151. E 
—— Dum. et Bibron, Hist. Nat. des Rept. tom. ii. p. 295. A 
N. A. Herp. vol. MN 25, et fig. à 
