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EMYS FICT A.— Schneider. 



Plate X. 



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Characters. Shell entire, sub-oval, depressed, smooth; dorsal plates black, 

 bordered with yellow bands. 



y^ Stnonymes. Testudo picta, Schneider, Schildk., p. 348. 



Testudo picta, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Lin., torn, i, pars iii. p. 1045. 



Testudo picta, Schoepff, Hist. Test., p. 20, tab. iv. 



Testudo picta, Latreille, Hist, des Rept., torn. i. p. 141. 



Testudo picta, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. iii. p. 45, pi. x. fig. 3. 



Testudo picta, Daudin, Hist. Nat. des Rept., torn. ii. p. 164. 



Emys picta, Merrem, Versuch eines Syst. der Amphib., p. 23. 



Emys picta, Schweigger, Prod. Arch. Konigsb., vol. i. p. 306, 431. 



Emys picta. Say, Jour. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., vol. iv. p. 205. 



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



Testudo picta, Leconte, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., vol. iii. p. 115. 



Emys picta. Gray, Syn. Rept., p. 26. 



Clemys picta, Wagler, Natiirlich. Syst. der Amphib., p. 137. 



Emys picta, Harlan, Med. and Phys. Res., p. 151. 



Emys picta, Dumeril et Bibron, Hist. Nat. des Rept., torn. ii. p. 297. 



Chequered tortoise, Vulgo. 



Description. The shell is sub-oval or oblong, broadest behind, flattened, 

 smooth, entire and ecarinate. There are five vertebral plates; the anterior is 

 smaller than the second and third, and is quadrilateral, widest in front, with its 

 margin arched outward; posteriorly it is elongated to enter a sinus of the 



