EMYSPICTA. 23 



had an opportunity of examining living specimens in Pennsylvania. It also seems 

 highly probable to me that the Emys Bellii of Gray,* and of Dumeril and Bibron,t 

 is only a variety of this animal, as I have met vs^ith specimens of the E. picta 

 slightly depressed along the vertebral colmnn, of a dusky-olive colour, and marked 

 with bands, not unlike those described as belonging to the Emys BelHi. 



*Synop. Rept, p. 34, spec. 21. tHist. Nat. des Rept., torn. ii. p. 302. 



