24 EMYS. 



integerrimo postice dilatato, scutellis vertebralibus primo 

 quadrato, secundo et tertio latis hexagonalibus ; corpore 

 cinereo, mento labiisque pallide lutescentibus ; cauda brevi. 



Testudo Batagur. Hamilton, Icon. (v. Mus. Ind.) cop. 

 Emijs BatagiLV ; Illust. Ind. Zool. t. 



/3. Baska. Testa oblongo ovata, sterni lateribus subro- 

 tundatis, long. 5, lat. 4 pol. Testudo Baska, Hamilton, Icon, 

 ined. (v» Mus. Ind.) cop. Emys Baska, Illust. Ind. Zool. t. 



Habit, in India, Dr. Hamilton. 



The hinder and more especially the hinder part of the 

 lateral, margin dilated ; the length is four and a hcdf, and the 

 breadth four, inches. 



11. Emys vulgaris, [Common Terrapin.) Testa ovato- 

 depressa obscure olivaceo viridi rugulosa nigro punctata, 

 sterno piano nigrescente lateribus obtuse carinatis ; capite 

 pedibus caudaque nigrescentibus aurantio-lineatis. 



Emys Lutraria, Schw.? Bell. MSS. (v. Mus. Bell.) Test. 

 Lutruria. Lin.??? Daud. ? Lacep. Ovip. t. 4. ? 



Jan. Testa ovata, plus minusve-tuberculato tricari- 

 nata olivacea, maculis auranliis nigro circumdatis ornata ; 

 sterno nigro ; capite artubusque lineis aurantiis nigrisque ^ 

 variis, cauda longa. Emys Sigritzii. Michaux, MSS. 

 (v. Mus. Leyd. Mus. Brit.) 



Habit, in Europa AustraU? (v. v. Hort. Bell, nost. et t. 

 Mus. Brit., &c.) 



A common species, of which I have seen more than twenty 

 living. The adult shell has a rounded keelless back, of a 

 dirty green colour, and covered with irregular lurid blackish 

 spots. The young shell has three, more or less distinctly 

 elevated, equi-distant, irregular, tubercular, and crumpled 

 keels ; the head is olive, and the cheeks, neck, and feet marked 

 with black -edged orange lines. 



C. Testa margine integro, sterni lateribus rotundatis . Orbis 

 Novse Incolse. 



12. Emys scahra. {Rough Terrapin.) — ^Testa ovato ob- 

 longa plana acute carinata, scutellis (" luteo nigroque va- 

 riegatis" (Schw.) in juniori aetate albidis ; capite lineis su- 

 perciliaribus luteis, postice furcatis. 



Test, scahra, Lin. Lacep. t. 8, f. 2. (v. Mus. Par.) cop. 

 Enc. M. t. 6, f. 2. T. verrucosa, Walb. Test, orbicularis v. 

 Gmel. Test. Amboinensis, Lin. e. Seba, i. t. 6, f. ] 2. Emys 



