PAINTED TURTLE. 663 
markings upon the she!l are usually mors intense; head brownish, with longitadiaal 
lines and lateral blotches of yellow, one of these blotches in front and another behind 
the ear, a third between the eye and the angle of the mouth; costal and vertebral plates 
alternating ; first, neural pentagonal, last almost triangular, the remainimg vertebral 
hexagonal; plastron elliptical, broadly emarginate behind ; gular triangular, the remain- 
ing sternal shields quadrilateral; carapax higher than in the preceding species, more 
strongly carinated. Length of carapax, 5} inches. 
Habitat, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Missouri, lowa, Kansas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. 
This species, which seems to have a range of the whole Mississippi 
Valley froma the Sault St. Marie on the north to Louisiana on the south, 
is occasionally, though rarely, found inthe State. It is usually known 
under the specific name of pseudogeographica, but Gray’s name, lesueurit, 
is older, and hence entitled to precedence. 
Genus CHRYSEMYS. Gray. 
Head moderate; upper jaw curved laterally, and notched at the apex; mandibles nar- 
row ; legs and tail scaly ; toes five in front and four behind; hind feet broadly palmate; 
carapax depressed ; plastron elliptical, shields immovable, soldered together and to the 
carapax. 
* Costal and vertebral shields in transverse lines of threesach. . . . . C.PICTA. 
* Costal and vertebra! shields alternating. : - 3 : .  (C, MARGINATA. 
CHRYSEMYs PIct Herm. 
Painted Turtle. 
Testudo picta, HERM, SCHNEIDER, GMELIN, SCH@PFF, SHAW, DAUDIN. 
Testudo cinerea, SCHNEIDER, SHAW, SCHGPFF. 
Emys picta, SCHWEIGGER, MERREM, SAY, FITZINGER, GRAVENHORST, LECONT#, HARLAN, 
Gray, DUM=RIL and Bipron, HOLBROOK, KIRTLAND, STORER, DEKay. 
Emys cinerea, SCAWEIGGER, MERREM. 
Chrysemys picta AGASSIZ, ALLEN, COPE, JORDAN. 
Chrysemys dorsalis, AGASSIZ, 
Color of carapax olive to brown, with irregular yellow lines margined with black; 
vertebral line narrow, yellow; plastron orange or yellow, often black in places; head 
brown, with yellow spots; neck, feet, and tail dark brown, with bright yellow and scar- 
let spots or bands; gular region brownish, with red and yellow stripes; eyes moderate ; 
pupils black ; irides golden, with a dark line passing through their center; costal and 
vertebral plates in transverse rows three in each, never alternating; first neural. 
quadrilateral, last heptagonal; middle vertebral shield quadrangular ; second and fourth 
hexagonal; marginal plates twenty-five, with a bright red blotch in their center and 
’ two red lines above it; a broad yellow band margined with black along the anterior 
margin of each row of costal and vertebral plates; gular and anal plates triangular, the 
remaining sternal shields quadrilateral; pectoral much the largest. Length of carapax, 
6 inches ; height of carapax, 2} inches; tail to anus, 1 inches. 
Habitat, New Brunswick, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, South 
Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, and Louisiana, to Lake Superior, and Eastern Ohio. 
