EMYS CUMBERLANDENSIS. II7 



The anterior extremities are short, covered with a warty skin, and furnished 

 with large scales placed transversely both above and below; a remarkable range 

 of large scales extends along the ulnar border of the fore-arm to the fingers, which 

 are five in number, webbed, and each furnished with a long delicate, and nearly 

 straight nail. The posterior extremities are large, well developed and flattened at 

 the tarsus, covered like the anterior, and sustain five fuUy pahnated toes, four 

 only of which are furnished with nails. The tail is of moderate size, thick at its 

 root, but soon becomes conical and pointed. 



Colour. The plates of the shell are brown, more or less dark, each being 

 beautifully marked with a waving blotch, or with radiating fines of yellow or 

 favrn colour. 



The sternum is yellow in the centre, each plate being marked with a dusky 

 oblong blotch, placed nearest the outer margin. 



The head above is dusky; the jaws are horn-colour, with dusky bars; from 

 the mouth to the neck run some small longitudinal yellow lines, the central 

 one most distinct; a long lemon-coloured spot begins behind the superior part of 

 the orbit, and runs horizontally for half an inch along the neck, increasing in size, 

 and finally sends off one branch which continues in the same direction, and 

 another that descends along the side of the neck; a second line, of similar colour, 

 and of the same size at its commencement, though it does not increase hke the 

 last, descends from the posterior and inferior part of the orbit of the eye to the 

 posterior extremity of the lower jaw, where it terminates in a blotch, with a line 

 nearly of the same size that begins midway between the angle of the mouth and 

 chin; finally another line of equal size begins at the chin, and soon subdivides in 

 two others, between which is placed an intermediate line; all these are continued 

 on the throat, which is dusky, and has some indistinct smaller lines of yellow. 



The anterior extremities are dusky above, with a brown longitudinal lemon- 

 coloured line reaching even to the nails; in front and behind are similar lines, but 



