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Bellevue are of the orange and black type with yellow and black 

 plastron and strongly marked keel, typical of eastern examples of 

 same age, and the same color pattern is exhibited by the adult 

 specimens from Johnson City, in which the keel has almost disap- 

 peared. Specimens — Bellevue, 2; Chattanooga, 1; Johnson City, 2. 



Genus PSETJDEMYS Gray. 



2. Pseudemy3 elegans (Maxim. Wied). Wied's Turtle. 



Very abundant at Reelfoot Lake as attested by numerous shells 

 lying about the marshes. The young, from one to two inches in 

 diameter, were swarming in the tributaries of the lake. In all of 

 these the red neck-stripe was strongly marked. Of numerous large 

 turtles seen in the Wolf River bottoms near Raleigh some were 

 probably of this species. Specimens — Samburg, 2 ad. ; 15juv. 



3. Pseudemys concinna (Le C. ). Le Conte's Turtle. 



A specimen from the Wolf River has remarkably long, slender 

 nails on the three inner toes of the fore feet, the fourth being quite 

 short. 



Specimens — Raleigh, 1 ad.; Samburg, 1 juv. 



Family KINOSTERWIDJE. 

 Genus KINOSTERNON Spix. 



4. Kinosternon pensylvanicum (Gmel.). Mud Turtle. 



One adult specimen from Reelfoot Lake is not distinguishable 

 from the typical eastern examples of this species. 

 Specimen — Samburg, 1. 



Genus AROMOCHELYS Gray. 



5. Aromochelys odoratus (Latr. ). Musk Turtle. 

 Specimens — Samburg, 1; Chattanooga, 1. 



6. 1 ? Aromochelys carinatus (Gray). Carinated Musk Turtle. 



A Musk Turtle collected in Emory River, at Harriman, Roane 

 County, is very doubtfully referred to this species. 



Description — Carapace strongly keeled, convex, rounded and 

 serrate posteriorly, and covered throughout with imbricated plates. 

 Posterior borders of marginal and dorsal plates acute, strongly pro- 

 duced, forming a serrate dorsal and posterior outline. Plastron 

 subtriangular, widely truncate anteriorly, narrowed and ernarginate 

 ventrally. Minute gular plate scarcely projecting beyond an- 

 terior margins of postgulars, the latter squarely cut in front, 



