254 FLOBIDA BOX TORTOISE— LONNBERG. 



can be considered: (1) T. bauri, Taylor, and my specimen belong to 

 tlie same species, altliongli one of tlie sijecimens is anomalous; or 

 (2) tkey belong to different varieties; or (3) one of tbeui is a hybrid 

 form. The first supposition seems rather improbable, for if the one speci- 

 men has a zygomatic arch one must expect to find at least rudiments 

 of a ([uadratojugal in the other. On the other hand, it would be 

 strange if two different forms of this genus lived in the same region 

 but were not known outside of that territory. Or are perhaps all the 

 iorms of Terrapcne only local varieties? This opinion seems, however, 

 now to be abandoned by most zoologists since Boulenger lately accepted 

 as species five iS^orth American forms of this genus.' With the material 

 now at command, the nature of the Florida form can not be decided, 

 but I have thought it desirable to jioint out the differences in my 

 Florida specimen and to call the attention of American zoologists to the 

 box tortoise of Florida, and at the same time add a little to the knowl- 

 edge of the variations of this genus. 



'Anu. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 6 ser., XY, 1895, pp. 330-331, uamely : mc.jor, Agassiz, 

 mextcana. Gray, vUio8tiTno\(hs,(^raj (=okU'r name for this form than /ri «»(;/« is, Agas- 

 siz), Carolina (Liuuieus), and ornata, Agassiz, from Yucatan— ywcatoHa. 



