SPECKLED OR SPOTTED TORTOISE 661 
NANEMYS GuUTTATUs. Schneider. 
Speckled or Spotted Tortoise. 
Testudo guttata, SCHNEIDER, SHAW. 
Testudo punctata, SCHNEIDER, SCHG@PFF, LATREILLE, DAUDIN, LECONTE. 
Emys punctata, MuRREM, Say, HARLAN, KIRTLAND. 
Emys guttata, SCHWKIGGER, HOLBROOK, STORER, GRAY, DeKay, DUMERIL and BiBRom 
Clemys punctata, WAGLER, 
Chelopus guitatus, COPE. 
Nanemys guitatus, AGASSIZ, JORDAN. 
Color of carapax black, with here and there an isolated round or nearly round yellow 
spot; plastron yellow, with more or less black, sometimes almost or entirely black; 
marginal plates yellow, or yellow and black beneath; head, neck, and chin brown or 
black, with reddish-yellow spots; feet dark colored, reddish or yellowish beneath; 
marginal plates twenty-five, nuchal narrow, elongated ; first vertebral pentagonal, the 
anterior margins shorter; last neural septagonal, rarely hexagonal, the remaining ver- 
tebral shields nearly hexagonai ; costals four, the first, second, and third largest; costal 
and vertebral plates alternating ; 2 groove in the plastron and carapax in front for the 
neck ; gular shields triangular, the remaining sternals with four sides; plastron behind 
broadly notched, carapax nearly or quite entire; sternal shields often with concentrio 
stris. Length of carapax, 5 inches; height of carapax, 1Zinches; length of tail, 14. 
Habitat, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina, to Michigan 
_ and Indiana, 
Agassiz states that this species ‘‘does not extend south of North 
Carolina, nor west of New York and Pennsylvania,” but the Museum of 
Michigan University contains a specimen taken in Ionia county, 
Michigan, by Prof. J. B. Steere; it has also been found at Ann Arbor, and 
Dr. Leyette of the Indiana Geological Survey reports it as occurring in 
the northern part of that State. Dr. Kirtland reports it as rare in Ohio, and 
hence, though not having myself seen it, I think, without question, it 
should be included in the fauna of the State. 
The Spotted Turtle frequents sluggish streams, ponds, and ditches 
with muddy bottom, but I have never seen them where the water itself 
was muddy. I have observed them in New York inhabiting the same 
ponds as Chrysemys picta, and about as numerous. They never left the 
_ water except to lay their eggs, which they didin June or July. They 
were frequently observed sitting upon the edges of ponds and upon logs, 
but in all cases plunged suddenly when approached. They go into 
winter quarter in the fall by burying themselves in mud. The yellow 
spots are very characteristic and appear earlier than the lungs or family 
characters. 
Genus GRAPTEMYS, Agassiz. 
Head, neck, and feet rather slender; upper mandible curved, sometimes with a bare 
trace of a notch at the apex, lower Jaw with a spoon-shaped dilatation; carapax de- 
