. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. 380 BULLETIN : MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 'The anterior lobe is slightly contracted just in front of the axillary notch ; then expands a little to the ends of the epiplastra ; then curves slowly to the truncated lip. The latter is unusually narrow . . being less than one-fourth of the width of the anterior lobe. It is markt outwardly on each side by a stout tooth, mesiad of which there is a notch ... On the upper side of the bone there is, along the midline, a prominent ridge . . bounded on each side bv a vallev ..
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. 380 BULLETIN : MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 'The anterior lobe is slightly contracted just in front of the axillary notch ; then expands a little to the ends of the epiplastra ; then curves slowly to the truncated lip. The latter is unusually narrow . . being less than one-fourth of the width of the anterior lobe. It is markt outwardly on each side by a stout tooth, mesiad of which there is a notch ... On the upper side of the bone there is, along the midline, a prominent ridge . . bounded on each side bv a vallev ...". Fig. 1. Echmatemys septaria. Internal view of plastron. Left, E. s. eallopyge, typical specimen (MCZ :297(>) ; right, E. s, septaria, type (USNM 4088) (x V, ,. The first vertebral scute is described by Hay as "unusually narrow"; its length is 13!) per cent of its width in the convex central portion. The lateral margins of scutes 2, 3, and 4 are "bracket shaped," and although the scutes are "longer than. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. Cambridge, Mass. : The Museum
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