238 VERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF THE UNITED STATES 



width 170 mm.; head with a broad yellow spot just back of the eye: 

 Georgia to North Carolina. 



P. concinna (LeConte). Shell broad and flat; carapace wrinkled on 

 the sides, olive or brownish in color with yellow or brownish markings; 

 plastron yellow; head black, striped with yellow;^ length of carapace 

 300 mm.; width 210 mm.: riyers of the southeast, above tide water, 

 Maryland to Georgia and west to Mississippi. " - 



Fig. 137. — Pseudemys rubrivenlris {from Fowler) . 



P. rubriventris (LeConte). Red-bellied terrapin (Fig. 137). Cara- 

 pace brownish, streaked or blotched with red; plastron red; length of 

 carapace 300 mm.; width 180 mm.; height no mm.; extreme length of 

 carapace 450 mm. : eastern States from Cape Cod to Florida, in coastal 

 plain rivers; the largest turtle in this territory except the snapper; 

 used for food. 



P. floridana (LeConte). Carapace circular and very high; head 

 black, very small; carapace dark brown, with wavy yellow cross bars, 

 325 mm. long and 225 mm. wide; plastron yellow; lower jaw nearly 

 smooth: Florida and southern Georgia. 



P. mohilensis (Holbrook). Carapace high and 300 mm. long; 

 plastron yellow; color similar to P. ruhriventris: Gulf coast from Florida 

 to Louisiana. 



P. texana Baur. Carapace brown, with yellow concentric lines; 

 plastron yellow; head streaked with yellow ; length of carapace 230 mm. ; 

 width 170 mm.: southwestern Missouri to Texas and Mexico. 



8. Deirochelys Agassiz. Similar to Chrysemys; upper jaw notched 

 in front; lower jaw arched upwards and terminating in a sharp point; 

 neck long: i species. 



