52. CHRYSEMYS 983 
dark seal brown (almost black); costal bars tinged with cad- 
mium orange. 
Hurter, in his Herpetology of Missouri gives the follow- 
ing description of the coloration: 
“Color above greenish olive with narrow yellowish lines 
following the sutures. Some of the shields are traversed by 
vein-like lines of the same color. Marginals above with 
about three transverse lines, the median of which reaches 
the inner margin of plate and sometimes joins a yellow band 
along the outer margin. Marginals beneath with a broad 
band traversed by yellowish stripes. Within the fields form- 
ed by these stripes are dark circular spots with a yellowish 
center. The connection between the plastron and marginals 
has three, sometimes interrupted, yellowish red stripes. The 
plastron is red with the central region occupied by a large 
blackish lyriform blotch, which is marbled by pale yellow 
and sends rays out along the sutures. Head and legs are 
striped with red. A yellowish stripe from below the nostril 
in front to the end of the jaw. Two other lines of the same 
color join at the nose, run to and through the orbit, and end 
above and below the tympanum, Three other yellowish red 
stripes, one starting at near the corner of the mouth, the 
other through the tympanum and the third on the occiput, 
run parallel along the neck to the body. A yellowish stripe 
starts at the symphysis of the lower jaw, behind which it 
bifurcates and with another one in the middle of that space 
runs back on the lower side of the neck to the body. Besides 
this the whole head and neck are marked with a number of 
very narrow yellowish parallel lines. On the front side of 
the fore legs are four reddish stripes, one on each side and 
two in the middle, which reach to the end of the fingers. 
Webs largely pale yellow. On the posterior side of the hind 
legs are two reddish yellow bands, which start from the 
body, running nearly parallel and converging at the tail, 
