1895.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 383 



reference to Dr. Holbrook's Herpetology, and to the check- lists of 

 Yarrow and Cope of the collections in the National Museum. 



I have largely adopted the nomenclature and sequence of orders 

 and genera used by Professor Garman in his valuable Synopsis of the 

 Reptiles and Amphibians of Illinois. The code of nomenclature of 

 the American Ornithologist's Union is responsible for any apparent 

 idiosyucracies of names or spelling that may appear. 



The collection numbers 270 specimens, classed as follows : Che- 

 Ionia, 45; Sauria, 27; Ophidia, 46; Anura, 63; Urodela, 89. 



So far as I have been able to discover, the whole number of 

 species and subspecies of Reptilia and Amphibia recorded from 

 Tennessee is 77, of which 52 are represented in the collection; besides 

 these there are about 30 species which are likely to be found in the 

 State limits, making the approximate number of Tennessee species 

 and subspecies 107. 



REPTILIA. 

 ■ Order CHELONIA. 

 Family EMYIDJE. 



Genus TEBRAPENE Menem. 

 1. Terrapene Carolina (L.). Box Tortoise. 



Not observed in west Tennessee but found in the middle and 

 eastern districts and abounding among the foothills of the Cumber- 

 laud and Great Smoky mountain ranges. 



Mr. W. E. Taylor bus recently 1 suggested that Kentucky and 

 Tennessee specimens of this animal may possibly be entitled to rank 

 as a variety of T. Carolina. 



If by "variety" a geographic race or subspecies is meant, the 

 five specimens recorded below show that such a conclusion would be 

 untenable, the individual variations of Tennessee Box Tortoises being 

 as numerous and undefinable as those of a like series from the 



Middle States. 



A large specimen from Chattanooga has an ebony black plastron; 

 the unkeeled carapace is of the same ground, with numerous spots 

 and small irregular figures of gold scattered over each plate; mar- 

 ginal plates each with a large orange spot; top of head and anterior 

 surfaces of fore legs yellow spotted. Two younger specimens from 



1 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVII 1895, p. 578-9. 



