EMYSSERRATA. 35 



And further, Bosc, to whom the young of the Emys serrata must have been 

 familiar during his long residence in Carolina, seems to have had no suspicion 

 that the Testudo scripta was the young of any of our tortoises, inasmuch as he 

 describes it as a distinct species.* 



» Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat, torn, xxxiv. p. 263. 



