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but is common in the West India islands. Dr. Cocteau, an excellent herpetologist 

 in Paris, shewed me numerous specimens from Cuba, whence they were brought l)y 

 M. Ricord; and Mr. Bell, so well known by his great Avork on the Testudinata, 

 gave me a specimen of it that he had received from one of the West India islands. 

 It is very fairly the representative there of our Emys serrata, from which it 

 differs, however, specifically, by the uniformity of its colour, and by the decussating 

 rugas of the shell. 



If I were to add a synonyme to those already given, it would be the Emys 

 ornata of Bell and other naturahsts, for my friend Bibron shewed me the shell of 

 an animal that served him in part for the description of the Emys ornata, which 

 very much resembles the Emys floridana. 



