26 NORTH AMERIGAN REPTILIA AND BATRACHIA. 
CHECK LIST OF RESERVE AND GENERAL SERIES. 
The following note refers to the list of testudinata which: Mr. True 
has prepared. 
'H. C. YARROW, 
Honorary Curator Dept. Rept. 
WASHINGTON, April 18, 1882. 
Str: There are some changes that may be necessary in the nomencla- 
ture of this list which can be settled only after further investigation. 
For example, the genera Thalassochelys and Eretmochelys are doubtfully 
accredited to Fitzinger and Amyda to Agassiz. The stickler, I suppose, 
would prefer Dermochelys the original name as written by De Blainville, 
to Dermatochelys. If we adopt the former we shall have to adopt Mala- 
clemys or Malaclemmys of Gray, rather than Malacoclemmys, the name as 
amended by Agassiz. Again, strict rules would force us to use Ma- 
croclemys or Macroclemmys for Gray’s later name, Macrochelys, although 
the former was a misprint, according to that author. I should like to 
review the case of Cinosternum pennsylvanicum before coming to a deci- 
sion. 
Malacoclemmys Lesueurt is undoubtedly a prior name to pseudogeo- 
graphicus, and a better one, I think. Chrysemys dorsalis, which Cope 
suppressed in his check-list, appears to me to be a good species, and the 
same is the case with C. marginata. C. Bellii antecedes and includes 
C. oregonensis. Not having Schneider’s “Schildkréten,” Iam doubtful 
whether Chelopus guttatus must give place to C. anonymus, though I am 
suspicious that it must. Cistudo carolina, (Linn.) Gray, I believe to be 
the only proper name for the Box-tortoise. 
FREDERICK W. TRUE. 
Dr. H. C. YARROW, 
Honorary Curator Dept. Rept. 
