662 : REPTILES—EMYDID 2. 
pressed with a persistent keel; plastron immovably soldered together and to the 
carapax ; outer side of fore legs with a row of scales; toes five in front and four behind ; 
posterior feet with the toes broadly palmate. 
* Head and neck with yellow lines, often reticulated, and a single spot on each side 
or none; keel not very prominent. 2 . A ; fi G. GEOGRAPHICA. 
* Head with large yellow blotches or stripes; keel very prominent. G. LESUEURII. 
GRAPTEMYS GEOGRAPHICA LeSueur. 
Geographic or Map Turtle. 
Tesiudo geographica, LESuxuR, LECONTH, HOLBROOK. 
Emys geographica, LECONTE, K1RTLAND, DeKay. 
Emys macrocephala et megacephala, HOLBROOK. 
Emys labyrinihica, LESUEUR. 
Graptemys geographica, AGASSIZ. 
Malacoclemmys geographica, COPE, JORDAN. 
Color of carapax olivaceous to brown, with a network of yellow stripes interlacing in 
such a manner as to give a cellular appearance, theso markings not so prominent in the 
center, and in some specimens nearly or quite obsolete; plastron yellow, often black in 
the center; head above dark olive, with numerous yellow longitudinal lines, and often 
a small spot of the same color as above, and with similar lines; legs and tail olivaceous, 
with yellow stripes; under sides of marginal plates yellow, with brown spots contain- © 
ing yellow lines within; plastron and carapax hollowed out in front to fit the neck, and 
notched behind; marginal plates twenty-five, the anterior narrow, but broadest behind; 
costal and vertebral plates alternating ; first neural nearly quadrilateral, with a pro- 
jection backwards, the last septagonal, irregular; gular triangular; the remaining sternal 
shields four-sided, abdomina! much the largest; anterior angle of anals received into a 
depression between the two preanals; tail short and thick; tympanum not prominent. 
Length of carapax, 9 inches; height of carapax, 22 inches; tail from anus, 14 inches. 
Habitat, New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Arkansas. 
The Geographic Tortoise probably occurs in every part of the State, 
having been obtained at Toledo, Rockport, and Cincinnati. They are 
very bold, active, vigorous animals, approaching even the Chelydrida 
in disposition, and their flesh is said to be very palatable. 
A specimen before me shows an abnormality, having an extra verte- 
bral and two extra costal plates, one on each side. 
GRAPTEMYS LESUEURII Gray. 
Pseudogeographic Tortoise or LeSucur’s Map Turtie. 
Testudo geographica, var. b, LESuEuR. 
Emys geographica, GRAY, var. a, LECONTE. 
Emys lesueurii, GRAY. 
Emys pseudogeographica, HOLBROOK, DrKay. 
Graptemys lesueurii, AGASSIZ. 
Malacoclemmys pseudogeographicus, Copz, JORDAN, 
Color of carapax, plastron, limbs and tail, same as the preceding, but the yellow 
