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PAINTED TORTOISE. 



Testudo Picta. T. testa ohlonga demisse convexa, Icevi, fusca, 



scutellisjlavo marginatis. 

 Tortoise with oblong, slightly convex, smooth, brown shell, with 



the scutella bordered with yellow. 

 T. Testa oblonga, demisse convexa, Ictcissima, scutellis disci medii 



suhquadrangularihus, Jiavo marginatis; sterno loiigitudine scuti, 



Schoepf. Test, p, 20. t. 4. 

 Testudo picta. T. testa plana, utrinque macula duplici ex atro- 



ccerukscente notata, scutellis margine Jlavo cinctis, collo per Im- 



gitudinem Jlavo nigroque striata. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 1045. 

 Cinereous Tortoise? Brown*s Zool. p. 11 6. t, 48./. 1, 2. 



The remarkable colours of the shield of this 

 species are sufficient to distinguish it pretty 

 readily from all others : the shell is of a smooth 

 surface, of a flattened or but slightly convex 

 form, and of a chesnut-brown colour, paler or 

 darker in different individuals, and consisting, 

 as usual, of thirteen segments, each of which is of 

 a, form approaching to square, and pretty deeply 

 edged or bordered with pale yellow : a stripe of 

 the. same colour also runs down the middle of the 

 dorsal segments, while the marginal pieces, which 

 are twenty-five in number, are each marked by a 

 semi oval spot of the same colour at the edge, sur- 

 rounded by two, or sometimes by three yellow 

 bands, following the direction of the first-men- 

 tioned spot, and thus forming so many semi-ellip- 

 tic yellow zones or stripes on each piece. The 

 neatness and accuracy of these, as well as of the 

 yellow borders on the large or middle segments 



