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EMYS RETICULATA.— 5osc. 



Plate VII. 



Characters. Shell ovate, gibbous, ecarinate, entire, longitudinally rugous; 

 dusky brown, reticulated with yellow lines. 



Synonymes. Testudo reticulata, JBosc, Manuscript Notes, communicated to Daudin. 

 Testudo reticulata, Daudin, Hist. Nat. des Rept., tom. ii. p. 144, pi. xxi. fig. 3. 

 Testudo reticularia, Latreille, Hist, des Rept., tom. i. p. 124. 

 La Tortue reticulaire, Hose, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., tom. xxxiv. p. 265. 

 Emys reticulata, Schiveigger, Prod. Arch. Konigsb., tom. i. p. 300. 

 Emys reticulata, Merrem, Versuch eines Syst. der Amphib., p. 26. 

 Emys reticulata. Say, Jour. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., vol. iv. p. 204. 

 Testudo reticulata, Leconte, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y. vol. iii. p. 103. 

 Emys reticulata, Fitzinger, Neue Class, der Rept., p. 45. 

 Emys reticulata, Harlan, Med. and Phys. Res., p. 152. 

 Emys reticulata, Dumeril et Bibron, Hist. Nat. des Rept., tom. ii. p. 291. 

 Chicken Tortoise, Vulgo. 



Description. The shell is oval, broadest posteriorly, very convex, ecarinate and 

 entire, or but slightly sub-emarginate behind, and longitudinally rugous. There 

 are five vertebral plates; the anterior almost pentagonal and broadest in front; 

 the second and third are hexagonal; the latter concave on its posterior border; 

 the fourth hexagonal, broader, and rounded on its anterior surface to fit the 

 posterior margin of the third vertebral plate, and is narrow and sometimes 

 emarginate behind; the fifth is heptagonal, rounded inferiorly and posteriorly, and 

 joined to two whole and two half marginal plates. The first lateral plate is 



