74 EMYS MOBILENSIS. 



floridana in size, and which in fact it ahnost equals. Leconte informs me tliat 

 he observed it many years ago in Alabama, and proposed calling it Emys 

 mobilensis, to which I have no objection, as I have been informed that it is not 

 unfrequently sent to the New Orleans market, where it is known under the name 

 Mobilianer. 



This animal is perhaps most nearly allied to the Emys rubriventris, from which, 

 however, it differs specifically; in this species both jaws are finely serrated; the 

 shell is not compressed at the side, it is more elevated in front, and more 

 depressed, and broader behind; the shell is brown, reticulated with yellow lines; 

 it is twice the size of the Emys rubriventris, and has never yet been found within 

 seven hundred miles of its locality. 



