DERMATEMYDID&. 261 
The specimen is a complete shell, extremely little damage having been done to either the 
carapace or the plastron through loss of any part. Unfortunately, however, an extremely 
compact clayey limestone has envelopt the shell, and this clings so closely to the bone that it 
was very difficult to remove it. In addition to this, there had been deposited over considerable 
portions of the shell scattered nodular masses of hematite, which became so thoroly 
attacht to the bone that, in removing them, the surface of the bone was somewhat injured. 
This condition has resulted in making it very difficult to determine the position and courses 
of some of the sutures between the ones and likewise the i impressions between the different 
epidermal scutes. Many of the bone sutures could be determined only by removing, by 
means of hydrochloric acid, a thin layer of bone so that the matrix in the sutures zee! 
a little. The obdurate nature of the matrix which fills the shell has seemed to render i 
inadvisable to attempt to remove it for the purpose of seeing characters found on the inside 
of the shell. 
The specimen has been carefully studied and the various sutures and sulci have been 
represented in the figures herewith provided. As to the bone sutures, they have been satis- 
factorily made out and may be relied upon. Many of the epidermal sulci have been more 
dificult to determine; but in general, it is believed that they are correctly mapt. 
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Fics. 323 AND 324.—dlamosemys substricta. Carapace and plastron of type. 4. 
323. Carapace. 324. Plastron. 
The carapace (plate 39, hg. 1; text-fg. 323) is Aer | moderately elevated, decidedly 
constricted at the inguinal notches, and miki the peripherals behind these somewhat flaring. 
A remarkable fercure of the shell, shared by ddocus, is the large part of it which lies behind 
the sutures separating the third and fourth costal plates seve: and that which separates the 
hyoplastrals from the hy poplastrals. Sixty per cent. of the length lies behind the line indicated. 
So far as known to the writer, this is approacht only in C ‘ine Ii of living genera. Nearly 
half of the entire length lies behind the inguinal note hes. 
In front, over the neck, there is an emargination in the border of the shell, while there are 
some feeble serrations in the hinder border. The extreme length of the carapace, in a straight 
line, is 550 mm. The greatest width, 380 mm., is just behind the inguinal notches; between 
the third and fourth costals the width is 372 mm. ‘The greatest depth of the shell is 150 mm., 
but in life this may have been greater. On each side of the middle line of the carapace, for 
some distance, the shell is flat, there being no suggestion of a keel. The nuchal bone is 55 mm. 
long in the midline; its lateral extent is 53 mm. at the anterior margin; go mm. where widest. 
There are 7 neurals. The eighth was wholly supprest; the sixth and seventh were reduced in 
size and crowded forward. "The first is broadly oval, 57 mm. long and 32 mm. wide. The 
second is narrowly oval, 44 mm. long and 18 mm. wide; the third, nar and fifth are hex- 
