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EMYS PICT A.— Schneider. 



Plate III. 



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

 bordered with yellow bands. 



Synonymes. Testudo picta, Schtieicl., Schildk., p. 34S. 

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

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

 Testudo picta, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. iii. p. 24, pi. x. fig. 1. 

 Testudo picta, Baud., Hist. Nat. der Rept, torn, xxxiv. p. 365. 

 Emys picta, Merrem, Versuch. eines Syst. der Rept, p. 23, spec. ix. 

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

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

 Emys picta, Fitz., Neue Class, der Rept., p. 85. 

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

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

 Clemys picta, Wagler, Natur. Syst. der Amph., p. 137. 

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

 Emys picta, Dum. et Bibr., Hist. Nat des Rept, tom. 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 nearly quadrilateral; widest in front, 

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

 adjoining plate; the second, third and fourth are hexagonal, and the fifth heptagonal. 

 with its borders of very unequal e.xtent, greatly dilated in the transverse direction. 



