ad 
12 Storer on the 
inches; length of the head and neck, when extend- 
ed, 11 inches; length of the tail, 15 inches. Width 
of the shell, 15 inches; width across the head, 4 
inches. bo 
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Cistupa. Fleming. 
Generic characters. Shell gibbous, strong ; mar- 
ginal-plates, twenty-five; sternum oval, covered with 
twelve plates, bivalve, both valvas moveable on the 
same aris, and joined to each other and to the shell 
by ligamento-elastic tissue ; anterior extremities with 
Jive, posterior with Jour nails. 
C. Carolina. Edwards. The Box Tortoise. 
Shaw’s Gen. Zoology, vol. iii. pt. 1. p. 36, et fig. 
Ann. Lyc. N. Y. vol. iii. p. 124. 
Harlan's Med. and Phys. Res. p. 149. 
Dum. et Bibr. Hist. Nat. des Rept. tom. ii. p. 210. 
Bell, monog. Test. 
I have received living specimens of this species 
through the kindness of friends from Barnstable, 
Amherst, New Bedford, Holmes Hole, and Walpole ; 
and although at neither of these places is it common, 
yet their distances from each other shows that it is 
pretty widely distributed throughout the State. This 
is a land Species, being found in dry and arid situ- 
ations, and it can live but a short time in the water. 
From the circumstance of the sternum being divided 
into two portions, the anterior of which is moveable, 
enabling the animal, when disturbed, to encase itself 
entirely within its shell, the Species is generally 
