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EMYS GUTTATA.— Schneider. 



Plate XL 



Characters. Shell oval, entire, smooth, ecarinate; black, with orange- 

 coloured spots. 



Stnonymes. Testudo anonyma, Schneider, Schildk., 2 beytr. p. 30. 



Testudo guttata, Schneider, Schrift. der Berl. Naturf. Fr., p. 2G4, b. iv. s. 3. 



Testudo punctata, Schoepff, Hist. Test, p. 25, tab. v. 



Testudo punctata, Latreille, Hist, des Rept, torn. i. p. 110. 



Testudo guttata, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. iii. p. 47, pi. x. fig. 1. 



Testudo punctata, Daudin, Hist. Nat. des Rept., torn. ii. p. 159, pi. xxii. 



Emys punctata, Merrem, Versuch eines Syst. der Amphib., p. 24. 



Emys guttata, Schweigger, Prod. Arch. Konigsb., p. 309. 



Emys punctata. Say, Jour. Acad. Nat. Scien. Philad., vol. iv. p. 205. 



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



Testudo punctata, Leconte, Ann. Lye. Hist. N. Y., vol. iii. p. 117. 



Clemys punctata', Wagler, Natiirlich Syst. der Amphib., p. 137. 



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



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



Emys guttata, Dumeril et Bibron, Hist. Nat. des Rept, tom. ii. p. 295. 



Speckled tortoise, Vulgo. 



Description. The shell is ovoid, or sub-round, more or less flattened, smooth, 



ecarinate, with an entire margin, or is slightly emarginate behind. Of the five 



vertebral plates, the anterior is pentagonal, broadest in front, with two of its 



borders directed anteriorly; the second and third are hexagonal, their greatest 



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